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Blog: 2018 ACS: Private Coverage Changes Split Evenly among States, Public Coverage Changes Experience Greater Variability than in 2017

Sep. 26, 2019: The U.S. Census Bureau released partial state files for the 2018 American Community Survey (ACS) today, which included state-level information about health insurance coverage by coverage type. The State Story The overall national decrease in insurance coverage in 2018 (from 91.3% in...Read More

Blog: Uninsured Profiles: New Resource from SHADAC Aims to Identify and Characterize Communities of Minnesota’s Uninsured Population

Sep. 20, 2019: Over the past year, Dr. Kathleen Call and her research team at SHADAC have worked to build, refine, and now, publish, an interactive tool that allows users to better understand and define the uninsured population in Minnesota at the zip-code level. Partnering with the Blue Cross Blue Shield...Read More

Blog: A Deeper Dive on Employer-sponsored Health Insurance: Costs in Five States in Comparison with the United States (Infographics)

Sep. 19, 2019: High health care costs have increasingly been a concern across the United States. Though presidential candidates have recently put forth proposals for changing the role of private insurance within the health care system, recent polls suggest that American consumers would rather hear about plans to...Read More

Blog: Understanding the New CPS Processing System and New 2018 Health Insurance Coverage Estimates

Sep. 13, 2019: On Tuesday, September 10th, the U.S. Census Bureau released estimates of income, poverty, and health insurance coverage for 2018 from two large-scale federal data surveys conducted annually and administered by the Bureau: the American Community Survey (ACS) and the Current Population Survey Annual...Read More

Blog: 2018 ACS: National Uninsurance Increased alongside Eight States; Three States Saw Decreases (Infographic)

Sep. 10, 2019: New health insurance coverage estimates from the U.S. Census Bureau’s American Community Survey (ACS) show that the rate of uninsured individuals in the United States increased by 0.1 percentage points in 2018, representing 535,000 more Americans without health insurance coverage as compared to...Read More

Presentation: October 1st Webinar - An Annual Conversation with the U.S. Census Bureau: New Coverage Data from the ACS & CPS on the New Site for Census Bureau Data

Sep. 05, 2019: Date: October 1, 2019 Time: 12:00 p.m. - 1:00 p.m. Central / 1:00 p.m. - 2:00 p.m. Eastern   New 2018 data on health insurance coverage from the American Community Survey (ACS) show a nationwide increase in uninsurance from 8.7 percent in 2017 to 8.9 percent in 2018. ...Read More

Blog: The Evolving Opioid Epidemic: Observing the Changes in the Opioid Crisis through State-level Data (Webinar)

Sep. 04, 2019: Date: September 4, 2019 Time: 11:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m. Central / 12:00 - 1:00 p.m. Eastern Background During the past two decades, the national opioid crisis has proved to be persistent and dynamic. After deaths from prescription opioid painkillers grew quietly for years, the U.S....Read More

Blog: Employer-Sponsored Insurance, 2014-2018: Premiums Reach New Heights while Deductibles Hold Steady (Infographics)

Aug. 14, 2019: More than 62 million private sector workers in the United States received health insurance benefits from their employer in 2018, and, according to SHADAC researchers, paid higher-than-ever premiums for their health plans last year. Using data from the Medical Expenditure Panel Survey-Insurance...Read More

Report/Brief: State-level Trends in Employer-sponsored Health Insurance (ESI), 2014-2018

Aug. 14, 2019: RESOURCES State Profiles Two-page “at a glance” graphic profiles of employer-sponsored health insurance (ESI) coverage trends between 2014 and 2018 for each state, including statistical comparisons of coverage changes from 2017 to 2018. Download a single file...Read More

Blog: Now Available on State Health Compare: New and Updated Data on Measures of Availability, Cost, and Enrollment for Employer-sponsored Insurance (ESI)

Aug. 07, 2019: SHADAC has updated four measures and added one new measure regarding employer-sponsored insurance (ESI) on our State Health Compare website to include the latest available data for calendar year 2018. The following measures have been updated: Workers in Establishments that Offer Coverage...Read More

Blog: Evaluations of Integrated Care Models for Dually Eligible Beneficiaries: Key Findings and Research Gaps from MACPAC

Jul. 31, 2019: Under contract to the Medicaid and CHIP Payment and Access Commission (MACPAC), researchers at SHADAC recently compiled an inventory of evaluations of integrated care models for beneficiaries enrolled in both Medicare and Medicaid, for which both the inventory itself and a related issue brief have...Read More

SHADAC Newsletter Archive

Jul. 29, 2019: The SHADAC newsletter contains updates on SHADAC activities, news from the states, resource updates, and blog highlights. Browse recent and past newsletters using the links below.  You can also subscribe to our newsletter here.  2024 SHADAC Newsletter - March 2024...Read More

Blog: Unaffordable Rents by Metropolitan Status: A New Breakdown on SHADAC’s State Health Compare

Jul. 18, 2019: Housing affordability continues to be a challenge in many states, especially those with rising housing costs and large low-income populations. It is important to understand how renters’ experiences with housing affordability vary across metropolitan statuses as well as how this relationship varies...Read More

Journal Article: Assessing the Accuracy of Survey Reports of Health Insurance Coverage Using Enrollment Data

Jul. 10, 2019: U.S. Census Bureau researcher Joanne Pascale, University of Minnesota researcher Angela Fertig, and SHADAC researcher Kathleen T. Call recently published a new article in the Health Services Research journal that details their efforts to measure the accuracy of responses to health...Read More

Blog: New SHADAC Brief Explores National and State Estimates of Gains in Equitable Coverage for Mental Health and Substance Use Disorder under the ACA

Jul. 09, 2019: A new brief from SHADAC, supported by the California Health Care Foundation (CHCF), examines gains in equitable coverage (i.e., “parity”) for mental health and substance use disorder (MH/SUD) treatment for people in the individual and small-group markets as well as those covered under Medicaid...Read More

Report/Brief: Mental Health and Substance Use Disorder Parity under the ACA: National and State Estimates of Parity Gains as of 2017

Jul. 08, 2019: In addition to expanding access to health insurance coverage for millions of Americans through subsidized individual market coverage and state Medicaid expansions, the federal Affordable Care Act (ACA) applied Mental Health (MH) and Substance Use Disorder (SUD) coverage and parity mandates to...Read More

Resource: 2018 SHADAC Annual Report

Jun. 30, 2019: 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 2018. Click the report below to flip through our 2018 Annual Report. Read More

Presentation: SHADAC Senior Research Fellow Brett Fried Serves as Expert at Census Convening

Jun. 28, 2019: Expert Meeting on Changes to the Current Population Survey Annual Social and Economic Supplement (CPS ASEC) SHADAC researcher Brett Fried served as a discussant at the Expert Meeting on Changes to the CPS ASEC, held in Suitland, Maryland on May 13, 2019. The U.S. Census Bureau convened this...Read More

Presentation: The Art of Listening: Working with an Advisory Committee to Improve Outreach and Communication to Reach the Remaining Uninsured in Minnesota

Jun. 27, 2019: Presentation by Brett Fried at the 2019 ACS Data Users Conference. May 15, 2018 in Washington, D.C.  View PDF of the presentation Read More

Journal Article: Validation of Two Federal Health Insurance Survey Modules After Affordable Care Act Implementation

Jun. 21, 2019: Surveys are the only source of data on the uninsured rate in the United States. The idea for a certain amount of federal monitoring of insurance status through standardized Internal Revenue Service (IRS) forms was included with the introduction of the Affordable Care Act (ACA), but...Read More

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