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Blog: 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...Read MoreBlog: 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...Read MoreBlog: Understanding the Undercount of Medicaid Enrollees in the 2020 Current Population Survey Health Insurance Coverage Data
Apr. 05, 2022: Studies have long shown that surveys underestimate the number of people enrolled in Medicaid, and that the extent of this “undercount” varies across surveys and states. SHADAC researchers have made significant contributions in this area, and the extent to which the Current Population Survey Annual...Read MoreBlog: Covid-19 Vaccine Hesitancy in the U.S. has Reached a Plateau: Evidence from the Household Pulse Survey
Apr. 01, 2022: Previous analysis produced by SHADAC using data from the Household Pulse Survey (HPS) showed promising evidence of a reduction in COVID-19 vaccine hesitancy during the first three months of 2021. However, though this report highlighted an overall decline in hesitancy, it also showed disparities in...Read MoreBlog: Six Measures on SHADAC’s State Health Compare Now Updated to Include Pandemic-era Data for Health Behaviors and Outcomes
Mar. 18, 2022: As part of our commitment to releasing relevant and timely state-level data, estimates for six measures on SHADAC’s State Health Compare web tool have recently been updated with data from the first years of the COVID-19 pandemic, 2020 and 2021. Data for each of these measures is drawn from a...Read MoreReport/Brief: New SHADAC Brief Summarizes Study of Effects of Medicaid Expansion on Physician Participation
Mar. 17, 2022: With the Affordable Care Act's (ACA) expansion of Medicaid, approximately 15 million people were able to enroll in the program - many of whom were previously uninsured. However, researchers have long worried that an expansion of insurance coverage would not translate to an equal expansion...Read MoreReport/Brief: Prevalence and disparities in excessive alcohol use among U.S. adults
Mar. 07, 2022: 17 million report heavy drinking, 40 million report binge drinking In the past several years, researchers have shone new light on the public health threat of alcohol consumption in the United States. Nationally, life expectancy has declined, while deaths involving...Read MoreBlog: 2020 U.S. alcohol-involved deaths climbed by 26.6%, and drug overdose deaths by 30.6%
Feb. 16, 2022: Size of alcohol, drug overdose death increases in first pandemic year were unparalleled With the recent release of 2020 mortality data from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), we now know that fears that the pandemic could result in increased drug and alcohol deaths were...Read MoreBlog: State Health Compare: State-Level Data Resources on Measures of Health Equity (Part Two - Health Behaviors, Health Outcomes, Social and Economic Factors)
Feb. 09, 2022: Health equity and social determinants of health (SDOH) are rapidly growing fields of public health research. SHADAC researchers believe that making strides toward achieving health equity depends equally on better understanding health disparities as well as on making concerted, measurable efforts...Read MorePresentation: California's Implementation of the Affordable Care Act: How Medi-Cal expansion has impacted health care access and health status for low-income Californians
Feb. 03, 2022: Natalie Schwehr, SHADAC Senior Research Associate, was invited by the Center of California Studies at Sacramento State University to give a webinar presentation on Friday, January 28, as part of their "Envisioning California Speaker Series." Dr. Schwehr presented a study conducted by herself and...Read MoreBlog: Expert Perspective and Issue Brief: Tracking the Data on Medicaid’s Continuous Coverage Unwinding (State Health & Value Strategies Cross-Post)
Jan. 27, 2022: The following content is cross-posted from State Health and Value Strategies published on January 21, 2022. Authors: Emily Zylla, Elizabeth Lukanen, and Lindsey Theis, SHADAC Medicaid and Children’s Health Insurance Plan (CHIP) programs have played a key role in the response to the...Read MoreUPDATE State Health Insurance Program Names: 2023
Jan. 27, 2022: This Excel file includes the names of state-sponsored health insurance programs for all 50 states and the District of Columbia. It documents program names familiar to enrollees; therefore it includes colloquial as well as official names. The document has two tabs – the first includes...Read MoreReport/Brief: Comparing Federal Government Surveys That Count the Uninsured: 2021
Jan. 26, 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: NHIS: National Rates of Health Insurance Coverage for Third Quarter of 2021 Statistically Unchanged from 2020
Jan. 24, 2022: On Wednesday, January 19, the National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS) announced that health insurance coverage estimates from the National Health Interview Survey (NHIS) Early Release Program are now available for Quarter 3 of 2021 (July-September) At a high level, the new estimates show no...Read MorePresentation: (Webinar) An Annual Conversation with the U.S. Census Bureau: Addressing Data Quality Challenges in the 2020 American Community Survey
Jan. 19, 2022: Impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic have been demonstrably far reaching and, by now, fairly well documented. One facet of this COVID-related disruption that has recently come to light is the interruption to data collection processes and response patterns for yearly federal...Read MoreBlog: Coverage During a Crisis: Insured Rate for Californians Hits Historic High in First Year of COVID-19 Pandemic (CHCF Cross Post)
Jan. 14, 2022: The following content is cross-posted from California Health Care Foundation. It was first published on January 12, 2022. Author: Lacey Hartman, Senior Research Fellow, SHADAC Despite widespread concern that economic fallout from the pandemic could slow California’s...Read MoreBlog: Race/Ethnicity Data in CMS Medicaid (T-MSIS) Analytic Files Updated December 2021 – Features 2019 Data
Jan. 11, 2022: This blog was updated in January 2023 to feature 2020 TMSIS data files and can be found here. Originally published August 2020 As the coronavirus (COVID-19) crisis evolves, it has become increasingly clear that vulnerable subpopulations are being disproportionately impacted, both in...Read MoreBlog: Measuring State-level Disparities in Unhealthy Days (infographics)
Jan. 02, 2022: Although health disparities in the United States have been common knowledge among public health professionals for years, the COVID-19 pandemic highlighted this problem with vivid urgency. The disproportionate impact of the pandemic on certain segments of the population—such as higher infection and...Read MoreBlog: State Health Compare: State-Level Data Resources on Measures of Health Equity (Part One - Coverage, Affordability and Cost of Care, Access to Care, and Quality of Care)
Dec. 22, 2021: Health equity and social determinants of health (SDOH) are rapidly growing fields of public health research. SHADAC researchers believe that making strides toward achieving health equity depends equally on better understanding health disparities as well as on making concerted, measurable efforts...Read MoreBlog: SHADAC’s New State Survey Research Resource Page
Dec. 10, 2021: Early this fall, SHADAC updated its State Survey Research Activity web page using an interactive infographic (preview to the right) to allow users to easily identify the type and frequency of state-level health insurance surveys (household and/or employer) available for all 50 states and the...Read MorePages
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