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Uninsured Profiles: New Resource from SHADAC Aims to Identify and Characterize Communities of Minnesota’s Uninsured Population
Sep. 20, 2019 : Over the past year, Dr. Kathleen Call and her research team at SHADAC have worked to build, refine, and now, publish, an interactive tool that allows users to better understand and define the uninsured population in Minnesota at the zip-code level. Partnering with the Blue Cross Blue Shield Foundation of Minnesota, who provided funding for the project, and with essential guidance from the... Read moreA Deeper Dive on Employer-sponsored Health Insurance: Costs in Five States in Comparison with the United States (Infographics)
Sep. 19, 2019 : High health care costs have increasingly been a concern across the United States. Though presidential candidates have recently put forth proposals for changing the role of private insurance within the health care system, recent polls suggest that American consumers would rather hear about plans to lower the rising costs paid by individuals, such as deductibles and copays.[i] Findings from... Read moreBlog & News: Understanding the New CPS Processing System and New 2018 Health Insurance Coverage Estimates
Sep. 13, 2019 : On Tuesday, September 10th, the U.S. Census Bureau released estimates of income, poverty, and health insurance coverage for 2018 from two large-scale federal data surveys conducted annually and administered by the Bureau: the American Community Survey (ACS) and the Current Population Survey Annual Social and Economic Supplement (CPS ASEC). The CPS ASEC is a key source of data on poverty, health... Read moreBlog & News: 2018 ACS: National Uninsurance Increased alongside Eight States; Three States Saw Decreases (Infographic)
Sep. 10, 2019 : New health insurance coverage estimates from the U.S. Census Bureau’s American Community Survey (ACS) show that the rate of uninsured individuals in the United States increased by 0.1 percentage points in 2018, representing 535,000 more Americans without health insurance coverage as compared to 2017. Rates of uninsurance also increased significantly in eight states, and rates decreased... Read moreBlog & News: An Updated Brief Examines State Health Compare Estimates on State Funding for Public Health
Aug. 20, 2019 : In light of growing public attention to health care costs and state spending, a number of media outlets have recently published pieces on public health spending per-capita for their state, using the rankings chart provided by SHADAC’s State Health Compare. SHADAC recently updated our brief on estimates of state-provided funding for the State Health Compare measure “Public Health Funding.”... Read moreBlog & News: Employer-Sponsored Insurance, 2014-2018: Premiums Reach New Heights while Deductibles Hold Steady
Aug. 14, 2019 : More than 62 million private sector workers in the United States received health insurance benefits from their employer in 2018, and, according to SHADAC researchers, paid higher-than-ever premiums for their health plans last year. Using data from the Medical Expenditure Panel Survey-Insurance Component (MEPS-IC), a new analysis from SHADAC highlights the experiences of private sector workers... Read moreBlog & News: Now Available on State Health Compare: New and Updated Data on Measures of Availability, Cost, and Enrollment for Employer-sponsored Insurance (ESI)
Aug. 07, 2019 : SHADAC has updated four measures and added one new measure regarding employer-sponsored insurance (ESI) on our State Health Compare website to include the latest available data for calendar year 2018. The following measures have been updated: Workers in Establishments that Offer Coverage Available for all states from 2003 to 2018, this measure reports the percent of workers whose... Read moreBlog & News: Evaluations of Integrated Care Models for Dually Eligible Beneficiaries: Key Findings and Research Gaps from MACPAC
Jul. 31, 2019 : Under contract to the Medicaid and CHIP Payment and Access Commission (MACPAC), researchers at SHADAC recently compiled an inventory of evaluations of integrated care models for beneficiaries enrolled in both Medicare and Medicaid, for which both the inventory itself and a related issue brief have now been published. About the Study Currently, both the federal government and numerous states... Read moreBlog & News: Unaffordable Rents by Metropolitan Status: A New Breakdown on SHADAC’s State Health Compare
Jul. 18, 2019 : Housing affordability continues to be a challenge in many states, especially those with rising housing costs and large low-income populations. It is important to understand how renters’ experiences with housing affordability vary across metropolitan statuses as well as how this relationship varies by state. The Unaffordable Rents measure currently available on SHADAC’s State Health Compare is... Read moreBlog & News: 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 morePages
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