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State Estimates of the Low-Income Uninsured Not Eligible for the ACA Medicaid Expansion
Publication Year: 2013

The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA) will expand access to affordable health insurance for millions of Americans. In states that choose to implement the Medicaid expansion for low-income adults, Medicaid will provide an important new pathway to coverage. Yet, even in states that choose to expand Medicaid a significant proportion of the low-income nonelderly adult population will be excluded from the Medicaid expansion due to their immigration status. Legal permanent residents, in most circumstances, are ineligible for Medicaid benefits for the first five years during which they reside legally in the U.S. and unauthorized immigrants are excluded from Medicaid coverage. This brief provides the first state-specific estimates of the number of uninsured low-income adults that will potentially be excluded from the Medicaid expansion because of their immigration status.

Enhancing the Value of the American Community Survey for ACA Evaluation: Developing More Timely Estimates of Health Insurance Coverage
Publication Year: 2013

This brief explores the pathways by which subannual ACS estimates could be developed, the feasibility of these pathways, the challenges associated with the development of subannual estimates, and potential next steps to generate subannual estimates.  While the focus of this brief is on developing subannual state-level estimate of health insurance coverage in particular, the strategies discussed could apply to other measures (e.g., employment, family income, and housing arrangements).

V-BID in Action: A Profile of Connecticut's Health Enhancement Program
Publication Year: 2013

This brief is from the research team led by SHARE grantee Dr. Richard Hirth, Research Director at the Center for Value-Based Insurance Design (V-BID) at the University of Michigan.  The brief outlines preliminary findings on Connecticut's state employee Health Enhancement Program (HEP), which provides financial incentives for participants to obtain high-value services and has thus far seen significant positive results.  Dr. Hirth and his team are currently conducting a rigorous SHARe-funded evaluation of HEP to identify trends in utilization and expenditures made by HEP enrollees relative to control populations, with results available within the next year.

Lessons from the Implementation of the Maryland Kids First Act
Publication Year: 2012

This brief highlights key findings from the SHARE-sponsored project led by David Idala, Director of Medicaid Policy Studies at The Hilltop Institute (University of Maryland, Baltimore County).  The project evaluated the implementation of Maryland's Kids First initiative, through which the state aimed to identify and enroll uninsured children who were eligible for Medicaid or CHIP coverage.  The goel of the Hilltop evaluation was to glean lessons for not just Maryland but also for other states considering similar outreach and enrollment efforts.  The brief describes the factors that facilitated Kids First as well as the key challenges that Maryland faced as it implemented the initiative.

Comparing Federal Government Surveys that Count the Uninsured
Publication Year: 2012

Comparing Federal Government Surveys that Count the Uninsured