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Predicting the Health Insurance Impacts of Complex Policy Changes: A New Tool for States
Publication Year: 2012

This brief overviews the SHADAC Projection Model, a complex spreadsheet model that states can use to estimate the impacts of policy changes on health insurance coverage. The SHADAC Projection Model provides state officials with the flexibility to update baseline data or test different assumptions, and is based primarily on state-specific data.  This model was developed to address the need among states for analysis that is timely, state-specific, relatively inexpensive, and flexible for testing alternative assumptions to predict the coverage impacts of policy changes at the state level.  Although the model was constructed specifically to help states project the coverage impacts of the ACA, the approach can be adapted to model the coverage impacts of other reform approaches as well.  The brief highlights the model’s approach, data sources, assumptions, and model output.

Louisiana Breaks New Ground: The Nation's First Use of Automatic Enrollment through Express Lane Eligibility
Publication Year: 2012

This presentation of SHARE-funded research was given by Urban Institute Senior Fellow, Ian Hill, M.P.A., M.S.W.,  at the 2012 AcademyHealth Annual Research Meeting in Orlando, FL, on June 23, 2012. The analysis looks at the Federal policy that facilitated Louisiana's use of Express-Lane Eligibility (ELE) and at Louisiana's approach to, and success with, the strategy.  Based on their findings, the authors provide a number of lessons for other states considering an ELE approach.

Predicting the Effects of the Affordable Care Act
Publication Year: 2012

This brief explains the basics of microsimulation modeling so that policymakers and analysts are able to secure the optimal model for their needs.

SHAP Report on the Modernization of State Medicaid Eligibility Systems
Publication Year: 2012

This report presents findings of a survey conducted by SHADAC of State Medicaid Directors regarding state plans for and progress made toward upgrading Medicaid eligibility systems in light of national health reform.  The purpose of this study was to delve behind the user experience of Medicaid eligibility and enrollment to better understand the technical situations and upgrade issues the states are facing. 

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.