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New SHADAC Brief Explores National and State Estimates of Gains in Equitable Coverage for Mental Health and Substance Use Disorder under the ACA
Jul. 09, 2019 : A new brief from SHADAC, supported by the California Health Care Foundation (CHCF), examines gains in equitable coverage (i.e., “parity”) for mental health and substance use disorder (MH/SUD) treatment for people in the individual and small-group markets as well as those covered under Medicaid expansion after the passage of the Affordable Care Act (ACA). National and state-level estimates of... Read moreSHADAC Senior Research Fellow Brett Fried Serves as Expert at Census Convening
Jun. 28, 2019 : Expert Meeting on Changes to the Current Population Survey Annual Social and Economic Supplement (CPS ASEC) SHADAC researcher Brett Fried served as a discussant at the Expert Meeting on Changes to the CPS ASEC, held in Suitland, Maryland on May 13, 2019. The U.S. Census Bureau convened this meeting to discuss the implications of the new data processing system implemented in the 2017 CPS ASEC... Read moreBlog & News: Measuring Health Care Affordability with State Health Compare: Trouble Paying Medical Bills
Jun. 18, 2019 : The cost of health care continues to grow nationwide, with U.S. health care spending reaching $3.5 trillion, or an average of $10,739 per person, in 2017.[1] As these expenditures have grown, the cost of health insurance has grown as well, such that Americans are increasingly enrolling in health plans with large deductibles and other cost sharing in order to avoid the expense of rising premiums.... Read moreBlog & News: Register Now - Webinar on Supporting Payment and Delivery System Reform through Multipayer Quality Measure Alignment
Jun. 06, 2019 : Date: June 24, 2019 Time: 12:00 - 1:30 p.m. Central / 1:00 p.m. - 2:30 p.m. Eastern Register Now. The State Health Access Data Assistance Center (SHADAC) will host a webinar on multipayer quality measure alignment as a strategy for supporting health care payment and delivery system reform. The webinar will draw on lessons learned from the experiences of states that received State... Read moreBlog & News: SHADAC at the 2019 AcademyHealth Annual Research Meeting (ARM)
May. 29, 2019 : A number of SHADAC researchers will be presenting their research at the 2019 AcademyHealth Annual Research Meeting (ARM) in Washington, D.C., from Sunday, June 2nd to Tuesday, June 4th, and at the State Health Research and Policy Interest Group Meeting on Saturday, June 1st. Their presentations include: The Evolving Opioid Crisis: Overdose Trends and Variation... Read moreBlog & News: State Health Compare Data Highlight: Potentially Preventable Hospitalizations
May. 22, 2019 : More expensive than outpatient or primary care, hospitalization contributes substantially to healthcare costs, with hospital care accounting for 33% of healthcare spending, or $1.1 trillion, in 2017.[1] Reducing potentially preventable hospitalizations—i.e., hospital admissions for certain acute illnesses or chronic conditions that might not have required hospitalization if they had been better... Read moreBlog & News: 2018 NHIS Full-Year Early Release: Insurance Coverage Held Steady Overall, with Some Subgroup Changes
May. 14, 2019 : The National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS) released health insurance coverage estimates for 2018 from the National Health Interview Survey (NHIS) as part of the NHIS Early Release Program. These are the first available full-year coverage estimates for 2018 from a federal survey, with estimates available for the U.S. and 17 states. Key Findings Uninsurance Approximately 30.4 million... Read moreBlog & News: New SHADAC Brief Explores Methods for Adapting BRFSS Survey Income Measure to Align with FPG Thresholds
May. 09, 2019 : The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s (CDC) Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System (BRFSS) survey can be a valuable data source for researchers seeking to evaluate the impact of health insurance coverage programs such as Medicaid on measures of health outcomes and health behaviors; yet the BRFSS’ income measure, which asks respondents to classify their income within one of eight... Read moreBlog & News: SHADAC Report: Uninsurance among Children Increased Nationwide in 2017, Ending Steady Decline
May. 01, 2019 : The national uninsured rate among children increased from 4.7% (about 3.6 million children) in 2016 to 5.0% (about 3.9 million children) in 2017. This increase interrupted a trend of nationwide gains in children’s coverage from 2008 through 2016, during which the uninsured rate dropped by more than half, from 9.7% to 4.7%. The 2017 nationwide increase spanned demographic groups (income, race/... Read moreBlog & News: Register Now - Webinar on Trends and Disparities in Children's Health Insurance: New Data and the Implications for State Policy
Apr. 24, 2019 : Date: May 2, 2019 Time: 11:00 a.m - 12:00 p.m. Central Register now. The State Health Access Data Assistance Center (SHADAC) and State Health and Value Strategies (SHVS) are hosting an online discussion to share new data showing a recent uptick in the rate of uninsured children and highlight promising state-level policies that could help. The interactive webinar will feature... Read morePages
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