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Blog: State Dashboards to Monitor the Unwinding of the Medicaid Continuous Coverage Requirement (Cross-Post)

Jan. 11, 2024: The following content is cross-posted from State Health & Value Strategies.  Authors: Elizabeth Lukanen, Emily Zylla, and Lindsey Theis, SHADAC This expert perspective (EP) will be updated by SHADAC experts as additional dashboards/reports go live. Please visit the State Health...Read More

Blog: Household Pulse Survey (HPS) Insurance Coverage Trend Analysis: How Does It Compare?

Jan. 10, 2024: Introduction The U.S. Census Bureau’s Household Pulse Survey (HPS) is an online survey that provides up-to-date monthly data on emergent issues and the social and economic wellbeing of U.S. adults. As one of the only sources of publicly available rapid response data, the HPS is a critical tool...Read More

Blog: SHADAC Comments on Proposed 2025 American Community Survey Health Insurance Coverage Instrument Changes

Jan. 03, 2024: The U.S. Census Bureau has released a request for comments regarding proposed revisions and changes for the 2025 American Community Survey. Based on information gained from the 2022 Content Test, proposed changes would affect a variety of topics and questions, including educational attainment,...Read More

Blog: Health Leads Joins SHADAC and RWJF for Next Phase of Medicaid Equity Monitoring Tool Project

Dec. 19, 2023: The State Health Access Data Assistance Center (SHADAC) is partnering with Health Leads for the second phase of its Medicaid Equity Monitoring Tool project. Supported by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF), the project explores the possibility of using a national Medicaid equity monitoring...Read More

Blog: Race/Ethnicity Data in CMS Medicaid (T-MSIS) Analytic Files: 2021 Data Assessment

Dec. 06, 2023: The Transformed Medicaid Statistical Information System (T-MSIS) is the largest national database of current Medicaid and Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP) beneficiary information collected from U.S. states, territories, and the District of Columbia (DC).1 T-MSIS data are critical for...Read More

Blog: SHADAC Responds to Proposed American Community Survey (ACS) Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity (SOGI) Test Questions

Dec. 04, 2023:   View the U.S. Census Bureau's full request for comments in the September 19th edition of the Federal Register.  On September 19, 2023, the U.S. Census Bureau released a request for comments regarding the proposed addition of test questions...Read More

Minnesota Health Access Survey

Nov. 29, 2023: MINNESOTA HEALTH ACCESS SURVEY Overview of the MNHA Survey The Minnesota Health Access (MNHA) survey is a statewide web and telephone survey that collects information on how people access health care and health insurance coverage in Minnesota. The survey dates back to 1990 and has been...Read More

Webinar: Disparities in Minnesota's COVID-19 Vaccination Rates

Nov. 27, 2023: On Tuesday, Nov. 14th at 11:00 AM Central SHADAC hosted a webinar in collaboration with the Minnesota Electronic Health Record Consortium. Health inequities are nothing new in the U.S., but the COVID pandemic has placed them in a new light....Read More

Blog: States Reporting of Medicaid Unwinding Reinstatement Data (SHVS EP Cross-Post)

Nov. 16, 2023: . The following content is cross-posted from State Health & Value Strategies.  Authors: Emily Zylla and Elizabeth Lukanen, SHADAC States, the federal government, advocates, and the media have all been closely tracking and monitoring the impacts of eligibility redeterminations...Read More

Resource: State-Based Reinsurance Programs via 1332 State Innovation Waivers

Nov. 15, 2023: Updated November 2023. Section 1332 of the ACA authorizes states to waive key requirements under the law in order to experiment with policies in the individual and small-group insurance market within certain guardrails. This interactive map provides an overview of the different stages of...Read More

Blog: California Achieves Lowest Uninsured Rate Ever in 2022 (Cross-Post)

Nov. 08, 2023: The following blog is cross-posted from The California Health Care Foundation.  Author: Lacey Hartman, Senior Research Fellow, SHADAC Maintaining Gains Hinges on Transitioning People Who Lose Medi-Cal to Other Coverage in Coming Months The share of Californians under age 65 (“...Read More

Report/Brief: The Opioid Crisis in the Pandemic Era

Nov. 01, 2023: During 2020 and 2021, the first two years of the COVID-19 pandemic, data show that drug overdose deaths did not subside or plateau, but unfortunately surged alongside the rise of the coronavirus. Growing death rates were driven by a substantive change in the very foundation of the opioid crisis,...Read More

Blog: 2022 ACS Tables: State and County Uninsured Rates, with Comparison Year 2021

Oct. 25, 2023: Each year, SHADAC uses data released from the American Community Survey (ACS) via the U.S. Census Bureau's data.census.gov tool to produce estimates of uninsurance at the state and county level.* Click on a state below in the interactive map to see a PDF table of uninsured rates by state and sub...Read More

Report/Brief: Federal Survey Sample Size Analysis: Disability, Language, and Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity

Oct. 13, 2023: The Medicaid and CHIP Payment and Access Commission contracted with the State Health Access Data Assistance Center (SHADAC) to conduct a review and sample size analysis of 13 federal population health surveys to assess the quality and availability of data for certain populations facing health...Read More

Report/Brief: Did Disparities in Access Worsen During the Pandemic? (CHCF Brief)

Oct. 03, 2023: The following content is cross-posted from California Health Care Foundation  Author: Lacey Hartman, SHADAC Previous research has shown that Medi-Cal enrollees fare worse in accessing health care than Californians with employer coverage. A key question is whether and how access to...Read More

Resource: Long-Term Services and Supports (LTSS)

Sep. 30, 2023: Long-Term Services and Supports (LTSS) Long-term services and supports (LTSS) encompasses the broad range of paid and unpaid medical and personal care assistance that people may need—for several weeks, months, or years—when they experience difficulty completing self-care tasks.1 The...Read More

Presentation: An Annual Conversation with the U.S. Census Bureau: 2022 Health Insurance Coverage Estimates from the ACS and CPS

Sep. 28, 2023:     On Thursday, September 28th at 1:00 PM CST, SHADAC hosted a webinar covering the release of new 2022 health insurance coverage estimates from two key, large-scale federal data sources: The American Community Survey (ACS) and the Current Population Survey (CPS)....Read More

Report/Brief: Health Equity Measurement: Considerations for Selecting a Benchmark (SHVS Brief)

Sep. 27, 2023: The following content is cross-posted from State Health & Value Strategies.  Authors: Emily Zylla, Andrea Stewart, and Elizabeth Lukanen, SHADAC  As states look to advance health equity, they need ways to measure whether their efforts result in improvements....Read More

Presentation: UMN Opioid Advisory Task Force

Sep. 25, 2023: On Thursday, September 21, SHADAC Senior Research Fellow Colin Planalp presented a data-focused look at the national opioid crisis during a University of Minnesota Opioid Advisory Task Force forum. Colin presented his recent findings about overdoses related to four different drug categories -...Read More

Blog: 2022 ACS: Declining Uninsured Rates for the U.S. and States are Supported by Private and Public Coverage Increases

Sep. 14, 2023:       Related Releases and Materials New Blog and Infographic CPS ASEC: 2022 National Health Insurance Coverage Estimates Show Falling Rates of Uninsurance and Direct-Purchase Coverage  The U.S. Census Bureau...Read More

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