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SHARE Grant Awards - Summer 2012
Publication Year: 2012

The State Health Access Reform Evaluation (SHARE) program awarded nine new grants to fund research addressing health reform issues that states face as they work to improve coverage and access.  This is SHARE's third round of grants since the program began in 2007.  The new grants, which range in length from 12 to 24 months, will offer timely insights into a variety of health reform issues.  The projects will explore topics such as Medicaid expansion for childless adults, value-based insurance design for state employee health plans, approaches to health care coordination/integration, and the production of reliable small area estimates of health insurance coverage and access.  This document provides an overview of the nine grants awarded under the third round of SHARE funding. 

The Rural Implications of Geographic Rating of Health Insurance Premiums
Publication Year: 2012

This brief from the research team led by SHARE grantee Andrew Coburn, Ph.D., Professor and Chair of Health Policy and Management at the Muskie School of Public Service at the University of Southern Maine, examines how and to what extent states allow health plans to vary premiums by geographic rating area, using insurance data from selected states to assess the direction and magnitude of variations in rural and urban geographic rating factors.  The authors also discuss strategies that federal and state policymakers might use to help ensure that premium variations based on geography are justified.

Selection in Massachusetts' Commonwealth Care Program: Lessons for State Basic Health Plans
Publication Year: 2012

In this brief, SHARE grantee Deborah Chollet and her co-authors Allison Barrett and Amy Lischko analyze risk selection over time in Massachusetts' CommonWealth Care program, which serves low-income adults ineligible for Medicaid, much like a Basic Health Plan under the ACA.  Based on their findings, the authors offer lessons for other states considering whether to form a Basic Health Plan, looking at questions of program design, impacts on the commercial market, and financing and operations.

CO-OP Health Plans: Can They Help Fix Rural America's Health Insurance Markets?
Publication Year: 2011

In this Brief, SHARE grantee Andrew Coburn (University of Southern Maine, Muskie School of Public Service) provides an overview of the CO-OP program legislation from the Affordable Care Act; identifies the challenges to obtaining private health insurance in rural areas; and assesses the opportunities and challenges of using the CO-OP program to address the limitations of the rural private health insurance market. 

Rhode Island's HEALTHpact Plan: Lessons for Small-Group Reform (Issue Brief)
Publication Year: 2010