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2022 NHIS Early Release: Estimates from Quarter 1 (January-March) show potential post-pandemic rebounds in health insurance coverage
Aug. 08, 2022 : The National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS) has released quarterly estimates of health insurance coverage beginning in January 2021 through March 2022 from the National Health Interview Survey (NHIS) as part of the NHIS Early Release Program. After disruptions to data collection operations due to COVID-19 in 2020 and 2021, NHIS quarterly estimates for 2022 were able to collect and... Read moreNow Available on State Health Compare: Five Updated Measures and One Brand New Measure
Jul. 25, 2022 : Estimates for five measures of health care access, affordability, and use have now been updated on SHADAC’s State Health Compare web tool. One new measure, Had Dental Visit has also been added to the tool. The new and updated measures are all produced using data from the National Health Interview Survey (NHIS), conducted by the National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS). SHADAC produces these... Read moreBlog & News: Understanding the Medicaid MAGI and CHIP Application Process Time Performance Indicator
Jul. 21, 2022 : The speed and accuracy with which state Medicaid programs process applications will become increasingly important as the COVID-19 Public Health Emergency (PHE) comes to an end. Once states phase out the PHE, they will have to manage new Medicaid and Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP) applications at the same time they start processing the unprecedented volume of redeterminations and... Read moreBlog & News: Pandemic-Era Trends in Employer-Sponsored Health Insurance (ESI), 2019-2020
Jul. 07, 2022 : The COVID-19 pandemic continues to disrupt many patterns of life and work in the United States and internationally, while exacerbating many long-standing concerns regarding health care affordability, access, and utilization as well as rates of health insurance coverage for Americans. In this regard, one area of potential pandemic-related impact to consider is coverage rates for employer-sponsored... Read moreBlog & News: Updates to Minnesota's Community and Uninsured Profile Resource to Reflect 2016-2020 ACS Estimates
Jun. 02, 2022 : Following the release of the 2020 U.S. Census Bureau’s American Community Survey 5-year data file (2016-2020), SHADAC has made important updates to the Minnesota Community and Uninsured Profile resource to incorporate an analysis of the 2020 data. The Community and Uninsured Profile can be used in two ways: (1) to support other equity-focused work, advocacy work, strategic planning,... Read moreReports and Briefs: State and Federal Relief Prevented Deep Backslide in Health Care Affordability in California in 2020 (CHCF Cross Post)
May. 18, 2022 : The following content is cross-posted from California Health Care Foundation. It was first published on May 18, 2022. Author: Colin Planalp, Research Fellow, SHADAC In 2020, the start of the COVID-19 pandemic meant the imposition of incredible burdens on every corner of US society, particularly the health care system and the people it serves. There were well-founded fears that the pandemic... Read moreBlog & News: FPG vs. FPL: What's the Difference?
May. 11, 2022 : The terms "FPG" and "FPL" are often used interchangeably, but they are not actually the same thing; there are, in fact, important functional differences between the two concepts. The federal poverty level (FPL) is the income threshold below which a “family,” and every individual in it, is considered to be in poverty.1 The poverty definition is based on money income... Read moreBlog & News: 2021 NHIS Full-Year Health Insurance Estimates Early Release: Coverage Rates Remain Stable Overall, Changes Visible across Demographic Groups
May. 10, 2022 : The National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS) released health insurance coverage estimates for 2021 from the National Health Interview Survey (NHIS) as part of the NHIS Early Release Program. The estimates captured in this report are some of the first available coverage estimates for 2021 from a federal survey. National-level estimates are available by breakdowns including age, sex, poverty... Read moreBlog & News: SHADAC Advocates a Data-based Approach to Advancing Medicaid and CHIP Access Monitoring Plan (Response to CMS Request for Information)
Apr. 29, 2022 : On February 17, 2022, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) released a request for information (RFI) regarding access to coverage and care in Medicaid and the Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP). SHADAC researchers focused our response on Objective 4: Question 1, which asked researchers to consider how CMS might develop a stronger Medicaid and CHIP access... Read moreBlog & News: Minnesota’s uninsured rate hit historic low in 2021 but racial disparities increased (Minnesota Department of Health Cross Post)
Apr. 14, 2022 : Today, the Health Economics Program (HEP) of the Minnesota Department of Health (MDH) and the University of Minnesota School of Public Health, State Health Access Data Assistance Center (SHADAC) released results from the 2021 Minnesota Health Access Survey (MNHA) - a biennial state-based population survey that collects information on how many people in Minnesota have health insurance and how easy... Read morePages
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