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Report/Brief: Comparing Federal Government Surveys That Count the Uninsured: 2022
Oct. 28, 2022: With the release of new insurance coverage estimates from surveys conducted by the U.S. Census Bureau, the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ), and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), SHADAC has updated our annual “Comparing Federal...Read MoreBlog: BRFSS Estimates Show Potential Break in Series for Usual Source of Care: New Data on State Health Compare
Oct. 20, 2022: A change to the 2021 BRFSS’ “personal doctor” question has led to large changes in the share of respondents reporting having no personal doctor The Center for Disease Control’s (CDC) Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System (BRFSS) is a long-running, telephone-based state survey designed to...Read MoreReport/Brief: Exploring 2021 State Public Health Funding Estimates Using State Health Compare
Oct. 10, 2022: This updated SHADAC brief on state-provided public health funding estimates highlights newly-available 2021 data as well as trends over the past decade (2012–2021). These estimates come from SHADAC’s State Health Compare measure, “Public Health Funding”, which provides annual estimates of per-...Read MorePresentation: Better Health through Data: Improved Collection of Demographic Data in Medicaid
Oct. 06, 2022: SHADAC Deputy Director Elizabeth Lukanen served as an expert panelist for an Alliance for Health Policy briefing hosted by Arnold Ventures titled "Better Health through Data: Opportunities and Limitations of Health Data" which was held virtually on October 6, 2022. This event reviewed the...Read MorePresentation: An Annual Conversation with the U.S. Census Bureau: Health Insurance Coverage Estimates from the 2021 ACS and CPS (Webinar)
Sep. 29, 2022: SHADAC hosted a webinar on Thursday, September 29, 2022 that provided an overview of 2011 health insurance coverage estimates from two key, large-scale federal data sources: The American Community Survey (ACS) and the Current Population Survey (CPS). This webinar examined the new...Read MoreReport/Brief: Room to Grow: Inequities in Children's Health Insurance Coverage
Sep. 28, 2022: Health insurance is a linchpin in the United States’ health care system. It can insulate families from deep financial strain and medical debt, as costs for health care services have grown increasingly unaffordable in recent decades. For children, the doorway to health care offered by insurance is...Read MorePresentation: Overview of SHADAC's Minnesota Community and Uninsured Profile for MDH's Health Equity Data Community of Practice
Sep. 22, 2022: On September 19, 2022, SHADAC investigator Kathleen Thiede Call presented at the Minnesota Department of Health's Health Equity Data Community of Practice Meeting. This presentation included a guided tour of SHADAC's Minnesota Community and Uninsured Profile, along with a brief history of...Read MoreBlog: 2021 ACS: Estimates Show Declining Uninsurance Rates Across 28 States, Driven by Rise in Public Coverage and Fall in Private Coverage
Sep. 15, 2022: In a slight departure from their normal process, the U.S. Census Bureau released all 2021 estimates from the American Community Survey (ACS) today, which included state-level information about health insurance coverage by coverage type as well by certain demographic categories. The Census...Read MoreBlog: CPS ASEC: 2021 National Health Insurance Coverage Estimates Show Falling Uninsured and Private Coverage Rates Across Population Demographics (Infographic)
Sep. 13, 2022: The U.S. Census Bureau has released an initial report detailing the state of health insurance coverage in the United States for 2021. Drawing on data from the Current Population Survey Annual Social and Economic Supplement (CPS ASEC), the report highlights good news overall as the percentage of the...Read MoreReport/Brief: State-Level Trends in Employer-Sponsored Health Insurance, 2019-2021
Aug. 30, 2022: The COVID-19 pandemic has altered long-standing patterns of life and work in the United States and internationally. The pandemic, along with the associated policy response, led to (at least temporary) changes in Americans’ primary source of health insurance coverage, with more Americans enrolled in...Read MoreBlog: Employer-Sponsored Insurance (2019-2021): A National-Level Look at Cost and Coverage Rates (Infographic)
Aug. 30, 2022: Throughout the United States, a majority of Americans and their families receive health insurance coverage through their employer. In 2021, the number of individuals enrolled in this type of coverage–known as employer-sponsored insurance or ESI–exceeded 62.2 million. In this blog, infographic, and...Read MoreBlog: Assessing Physician Acceptance of Medicaid Patients Using State Health Compare
Aug. 25, 2022: In order for the more than 80 million Medicaid beneficiaries to access needed care in a timely manner, there must be a sufficient number of health care providers to serve these patients. There has long been concern that providers are less likely to accept Medicaid patients than patients with other...Read MoreBlog: 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...Read MoreBlog: Now 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...Read MoreBlog: 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)...Read MoreBlog: 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...Read MorePresentation: Accelerating the Use of Findings from Patient-Centered Outcomes Research in Clinical Practice to Improve Health and Health Care
Jun. 28, 2022: A committee of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine is hosting a series of public workshops to explore potential ways to accelerate the use of patient-centered outcomes research (PCOR) findings in clinical practice to improve health and health care. In the second...Read MoreReport/Brief: Rates of Anxiety and Depression Symptoms Declined in 2021, Remained Higher than Pre-Pandemic
Jun. 07, 2022: June 7, 2022 Despite improvements, disparities in prevalence persisted As the COVID-19 pandemic continues in the United States, anxiety and depression levels remain elevated compared to pre-pandemic rates. However, 2021 data shows a significant decline in reported anxiety and...Read MoreResource: 2021 SHADAC Annual Report
Jun. 02, 2022: 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 2021. Click the report below to flip through our 2021 Annual Report. Read MoreBlog: 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...Read MorePages
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