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Blog: Now Available on State Health Compare: One Brand New Measure and Five Updated Measures

May. 26, 2023: Estimates for five measures of health care access, affordability, and use have now been updated on SHADAC’s State Health Compare. One new measure, Had Telehealth Visit, has also been added to State Health Compare. The new and updated measures are all produced using data from the National...Read More

Report/Brief: Opportunities to Learn More About Serving Justice-Involved Individuals Through 1115 Demonstration Evaluations

May. 11, 2023: Medicaid is a vital source of coverage for the almost four million justice-involved individuals living in the community – individuals who are disproportionately poor and people of color. Upon release from prison or jail, many of these individuals face significant obstacles navigating and accessing...Read More

Blog: FPG vs. FPL: What's the Difference?

Apr. 18, 2023: 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...Read More

Resource: 2022 SHADAC Annual Report

Apr. 14, 2023: This report provides an overview of our topic areas, technical expertise, and partnerships as well as a glimpse into some of the work done at SHADAC in 2022. Click the report below to flip through our 2022 Annual Report. Read More

Blog: Monitoring Broadband Expansion and Disparities using Data from State Health Compare

Apr. 13, 2023: Introduction The onset of the COVID-19 pandemic underscored the importance of telehealth services to people across the U.S. and the crucial role of broadband internet access in providing those services. Telehealth continues to be a popular and often necessary way for patients to access care, and...Read More

Presentation: What the Growing Medicaid Undercount Means for Data Users and Policymakers

Apr. 05, 2023: SHADAC hosted a one-hour webinar on Wednesday, April 5th to discuss the rising Medicaid undercount. With many states and stakeholders eager to understand the topic further, this webinar provided an overview of issues related to the Medicaid undercount along with relevant...Read More

Resource: Minnesota’s Community and Uninsured Profile

Mar. 30, 2023: The resources below were created by SHADAC with essential guidance from the advisory board of MNsure navigators and policymakers. These tools can be used for community-level equity-focused work and advocacy by informing strategic plans, partnership development, assessment of community needs, and...Read More

Blog: Updates to Minnesota’s Community and Uninsured Profile: NEW Social Vulnerability Index Information and Updated 2017–2021 Data

Mar. 28, 2023:     Following the release of the 2021 U.S. Census Bureau’s American Community Survey 5-year data file (2017–2021), SHADAC has made important updates to the Minnesota Community and Uninsured Profile resource to incorporate an...Read More

Blog: Considerations from SHADAC: Proposed Revisions to Federal Standards for Collecting Race/Ethnicity Data

Mar. 23, 2023:   On January 26, 2023, the Interagency Technical Working Group on Race and Ethnicity Standards released an initial set of recommended revisions to the Office of Management and Budget’s (OMB) Statistical Policy Directive No. 15: Standards for Maintaining, Collecting,...Read More

Blog: Examining Discrimination and Health Care Access by Sexual Orientation in Minnesota

Mar. 22, 2023: Authors: Natalie Mac Arthur, Jeremy Duval, Kathleen Call More than one-third of lesbian/gay adults in Minnesota reported experiencing discrimination from health care providers based on their sexual orientation and gender identity.  ...Read More

Report/Brief: Significance Testing Using State Health Compare

Mar. 15, 2023: Originally published December 2016. Updated March 2023 by SHADAC Research Assistant Adey Fentaw. This technical brief provides guidance on how to run tests for statistically significant differences using estimates and their associated margins of error from SHADAC’s State Health Compare web tool...Read More

Determining the Need for a Medicaid Equity Monitoring Tool

Mar. 10, 2023: Project Overview People who experience health inequities based on race, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, immigration status, and other factors, are a longstanding and pervasive problem that is deeply rooted in discrimination and structural racism. The Medicaid program, through...Read More

Blog: Review of Health Insurance Coverage Data in 2021: Releases and Resources

Feb. 27, 2023: Each year, SHADAC covers the releases of health insurance coverage data from major federal surveys such as the American Community Survey (ACS) and Current Population Survey (CPS), both of which are overseen by the U.S. Census Bureau.1 Not only do these data provide an understanding of trends...Read More

Blog: Changing Population Estimates: Implications for Data Users

Feb. 21, 2023: . How the CDC’s recent shift will impact calculations for birth and death rates The National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS) at the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) recently changed the population estimates they use to calculate population-level rates in...Read More

Blog: To Improve Health Equity, Treat Disparities in Adverse Childhood Experiences

Feb. 15, 2023: Twenty-five years ago, a watershed study on adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) first established a relationship between childhood trauma and long-term health impacts that can last well into adulthood.1 Since then, numerous related studies have corroborated the association between ACEs and...Read More

Report/Brief: The Kids Aren't Alright: Adverse Childhood Experiences and Implications for Health Equity

Feb. 15, 2023: Authors: Colin Planalp, MPA and Andrea Stewart, MA   Drawing on data from the National Survey of Children’s Health, this brief investigates the prevalence of adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) and disparities in ACEs exposure by children’s race, family income...Read More

Blog: Reporting Requirements Related to Unwinding Medicaid Continuous Coverage: Considerations for Medicaid and the Marketplace (State Health & Value Strategies Expert Perspective Cross-Post)

Feb. 09, 2023: The following content is cross-posted from State Health & Value Strategies.  Original publication date: February 9, 2023. Authors: Elizabeth Lukanen, Emily Zylla, SHADAC The Families First Coronavirus Response Act implemented a Medicaid continuous enrollment requirement which...Read More

Blog: Recent Publication Round-Up: The 2021 Medicaid Undercount

Feb. 01, 2023: Research has consistently shown that surveys that measure health insurance coverage underestimate the number of people enrolled in Medicaid; this is known as the “Medicaid undercount.” SHADAC researchers have long monitored and investigated the magnitude, causes, and effects of the Medicaid...Read More

Report/Brief: Tracking the Medicaid Undercount in the 2021 ACS Coverage Data

Jan. 30, 2023: Research has consistently shown that health insurance coverage surveys underestimate the number of people enrolled in Medicaid and the extent of this “Medicaid undercount” varies greatly across surveys and states. Among these surveys that measure health insurance coverage, the American...Read More

Journal Article: SHADAC in JHPPL: The Future of State All-Payer Claims Databases

Jan. 24, 2023: This journal article was originally published in Volume 48, Issue 1 of the Journal of Health Politics, Policy and Law (JHPPL).   Authors: Lynn A. Blewett, PhD, MPA, Natalie Schwehr Mac Arthur, PhD, MAc, and James Campbell SHADAC researchers recently published an article...Read More

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