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Now Available on State Health Compare: Updated Measures on Public Health, Health Outcomes, and Access, Cost, and Utilization of Care
Dec. 12, 2018 : SHADAC has updated eight data measures with the latest available estimates on our State Health Compare site. The updated measures include: Public Health Funding This measure indicates an individual state’s share of public health funding for the previous fiscal year. Data is available from 2005-2017, excepting in 2006 when data is not available. Made Changes to Medical Drugs... Read moreSHADAC Examines Medicaid Eligibility, Enrollment and Renewal in Six States – MACPAC Contractor Report
Dec. 05, 2018 : SHADAC recently conducted an assessment for the Medicaid and CHIP Payment and Access Commission (MACPAC) regarding Medicaid eligibility, enrollment, and renewal processes and systems in six study states—Arizona, Colorado, Florida, Idaho, New York, and North Carolina. This assessment sheds light on the different choices each of the study states has made regarding structuring their Medicaid... Read moreBlog & News: Now Available on State Health Compare: Updated data on measures of social determinants of health, health insurance coverage, and children’s health through 2017
Dec. 04, 2018 : SHADAC has updated seven measures on our State Health Compare site. Updated content includes: Health Insurance Coverage Type This measure shows rates of uninsurance or coverage type and is now available for all states from 2008 through 2017, with breakdowns by age, citizenship, disability status, education, family income, limited English proficiency, marital status, poverty level... Read moreBlog & News: Health Insurance Coverage: Uninsurance by Metro Areas in 2017 (Interactive)
Nov. 16, 2018 : An estimated 8.7% of the U.S. population remains without health insurance coverage, even in a post-Affordable Care Act (ACA) landscape. Data from the 2017 American Community Survey (ACS) show that many of the remaining uninsured are clustered in metropolitan areas—identified as metropolitan statistical areas (MSAs) by the U.S. Census Bureau—because these areas are, by definition, more densely... Read moreBlog & News: NHIS: 2018 Uninsured Rate Unchanged from 2017
Nov. 15, 2018 : Nationwide, 12.5% of nonelderly adults (ages 18-64) were uninsured in the first half of 2018, unchanged from 12.5% in the same period in 2017. This finding is based on new health insurance coverage estimates for Q1-Q2 2018 from the National Health Interview Survey (NHIS). These estimates were released by the National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS) as part of the NHIS Early Release Program... Read moreBlog & News: New Data on Drug Overdose Deaths Highlight the Need for State-Level Analysis
Nov. 05, 2018 : In a rare positive sign regarding the national opioid crisis, new provisional data from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) suggest that the persistent increases in overdose deaths may be slowing, with a possible leveling out or even a small drop in U.S. opioid-related overdose deaths in late 2017 and early 2018.[i] Those data were recently highlighted by U.S. Secretary of... Read moreBlog & News: Latino Children in California Face Inequitable Access to Care (Infographic)
Oct. 31, 2018 : According to the 2016 National Survey of Children’s Health (NSCH), Latino children in California face lower access to health care than their white counterparts across multiple access indicators. Despite representing more than half of children living in the state, Latino children are less likely than white children to: have health insurance coverage, have insurance benefits that meet... Read moreBlog & News: Obesity Rate Increased Nationally for Second Year in a Row: New Data on State Health Compare
Oct. 18, 2018 : The prevalence of obesity among adults in the United States increased to 30.1 percent in 2017, up from 29.6 percent in 2016, according to SHADAC’s analysis of new Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System (BRFSS) data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). * Change from previous year statistically significant at the 95% confidence level Obesity increased in... Read moreLynn Blewett in Health Affairs Blog: Examining the New Basic Health Plan Financing Rule
Oct. 11, 2018 : On August 24th, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid (CMS) released a Final Administrative Order that would revise and recalculate their payments toward Basic Health Programs (BHPs). Only two states have established BHPs—Minnesota and New York—under Section 1331 of the Affordable Care Act (ACA). SHADAC Director Lynn Blewett and David Anderson, a researcher at the Duke University Margolis... Read moreBlog & News: Employer-Sponsored Insurance, 2013-2017: Premiums Grow Faster, Deductibles Continue to Increase - Chartbook and State Fact Sheets
Oct. 01, 2018 : The nation’s attention has recently concentrated on health insurance coverage purchased through Affordable Care Act marketplaces, but it is important to remember that the majority of non-elderly Americans (51.6%) continue to get their health insurance coverage from an employer.[1] A new analysis from SHADAC uses data from the Medical Expenditure Panel Survey (MEPS) to highlight the... Read morePages
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