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Blog: 2017 County Health Insurance Estimates Now Available
Apr. 10, 2019: The U.S. Census Bureau released the Small Area Health Insurance Estimates (SAHIE) for 2017, providing estimates of health insurance coverage for all counties and states. The SAHIE program is the only source of single-year health insurance estimates for every county in the US....Read MorePresentation: HPM Seminar Series: The Next Wave of Health Care Reform - April 12th
Apr. 05, 2019: Join us for a lively discussion of the current state of health reform in the United States. Professor Lynn Blewett will facilitate a discussion with the Kaiser Family Foundation’s Larry Levitt on recent and perhaps pivotal events in health policy. We will discuss the latest ruling by a federal...Read MoreReport/Brief: New Issue Brief Examines Ohio Strategy to Improve Opioid Prescribing Through Payment Reform
Mar. 26, 2019: In an effort to improve quality and contain the growing cost of health care, states are increasingly undertaking a shift away from fee-for-service reimbursement models that reward quantity of services and moving toward alternative payment models that reward value. Many of the states leading the way...Read MoreBlog: New SHADAC Article for INQUIRY Estimates the Cost of National and State-Level Reinsurance Programs for Stabilizing the Individual Health Insurance Markets
Mar. 26, 2019: In hopes of stabilizing individual insurance markets, the idea of reinsurance—a product designed to protect health insurers against the financial risk of covering high-cost enrollees—has attracted bipartisan interest from state and national policymakers. Alaska, Minnesota, and Oregon...Read MoreBlog: SHADAC Researcher Colin Planalp Talks Trends in the Opioid Crisis with the University of Minnesota
Mar. 25, 2019: In a recent interview with the University of Minnesota, SHADAC researcher Colin Planalp provided an overview of recent trends in the nation's evolving opioid crisis, discussing the growth in opioid overdose deaths since 2000, and how Minnesota’s statistics on opioid overdoses compare...Read MoreJournal Article: SHADAC in INQUIRY: Estimating National and State-Level Costs of a Reinsurance Program to Stabilize the Individual Health Insurance Market
Mar. 21, 2019: Reinsurance, an insurance product designed to protect health insurers against the financial risk of covering high-cost enrollees, has attracted bipartisan policy interest as a mechanism to stabilize individual health insurance markets. Three states—Alaska, Minnesota, and Oregon—have implemented...Read MoreReport/Brief: SHADAC Issue Brief "Aligning Quality Measures across Payers: Lessons from State Innovation Models"
Mar. 20, 2019: In an effort to improve quality and contain the growing cost of health care, states are increasingly undertaking a shift away from fee-for-service reimbursement models that reward quantity and moving toward alternative payment models that reward value. Many of the states leading the...Read MoreBlog: New SHADAC Issue Brief Highlights Lessons Learned from SIM States Working to Align Quality Measures
Mar. 20, 2019: In an effort to improve quality and contain the growing cost of health care, states are increasingly undertaking a shift away from fee-for-service reimbursement models that reward quantity and moving toward alternative payment models that reward value. Many of the states leading the...Read MoreJournal Article: SHADAC Research in AJPH: Addressing Opioid Addiction through Cross-Sector Collaboration
Mar. 05, 2019: After implementing a cross-sector collaboration between medical providers, nonmedical service providers, and a wide range of other stakeholders in the community, the town of Little Falls, Minnesota, saw a reduction in opioid use and abuse among patients at the local hospital and clinic and within...Read MoreBlog: NHIS: Nationwide Uninsured Rate for January to September 2018 Unchanged from 2017
Feb. 27, 2019: Nationwide, the uninsurance rate among non-elderly adults (ages 18-64) in the first three quarters of 2018 was 13.0%, statistically unchanged from 12.7% in the same period in 2017. This finding is based on new health insurance coverage estimates for Q1-Q3 2018 from the National Health Interview...Read MoreBlog: A State-level Measure of Drug Affordability on State Health Compare: Made Changes to Medical Drugs Because of Cost
Feb. 25, 2019: Americans spend more on prescription medications per capita than residents of any other nation due to higher U.S. drug prices. In 2016, prescription drugs accounted for an estimated 14.1 percent of total national health care costs, or $471 billion. [1],[2] The high prices of prescription drugs have...Read MoreBlog: Leveraging 1332 State Innovation Waivers to Stabilize Individual Health Insurance Markets: Experiences of Alaska, Minnesota, and Oregon
Feb. 19, 2019: A new SHADAC analysis, prepared for the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, examines the use of 1332 State Innovations Waivers to stabilize individual health insurance markets. SHADAC researchers compared the use of this strategy in Alaska, Minnesota, and Oregon, assessing how these states navigated...Read MoreBlog: SHADAC Releases 50-State Analysis of the Evolving Opioid Crisis (Infographics)
Feb. 12, 2019: Much of the attention paid to the national opioid crisis in recent years has focused on the national toll of the crisis, such as the more than 44,000 opioid overdose deaths reported nationally in 2017.[1] However, the dynamics of the crisis vary widely across states, both in the prevalence of...Read MorePresentation: Exploring Disparities Using New and Updated Measures on SHADAC’s State Health Compare - State-Level Highlights for Unaffordable Rents, Unhealthy Days, and More: Webinar
Feb. 06, 2019: Date: February 6, 2019 Time: 1:00 p.m. – 2:00 p.m. Central Click to view the webinar recording below. You can also download the slides as a PDF or download a copy of the event transcript. On Wednesday, February 6th at 1:00 PM Central, SHADAC hosted a webinar...Read MoreReport/Brief: Leveraging 1332 State Innovation Waivers to Stabilize Individual Health Insurance Markets: Experiences of Alaska, Minnesota, and Oregon (Final Report)
Feb. 05, 2019: In 2017, Alaska, Minnesota, and Oregon became the first three states to receive federal approval to establish state reinsurance programs with federal funding via section 1332 State Innovation Waivers, which authorize states to waive key requirements under the law in order to experiment with dif...Read MoreBlog: State Health Compare Updated to Include 2017 Opioid-Related Overdose Data and New Data on Overdose Deaths from Other Drugs
Jan. 29, 2019: SHADAC has recently updated our State Health Compare estimates on opioid-related drug overdose deaths to include data from 2017. Data on this measure, which examines natural and semi-synthetic opioids, synthetic opioids, and heroin, are now available for years 1999 to 2017. We have also added...Read MoreBlog: MACStats from MACPAC: 2018 Medicaid and CHIP Data Book Now Available
Jan. 18, 2019: The Medicaid and CHIP Payment and Access Commission (MACPAC) recently released the 2018 version of its Medicaid and CHIP Data Book. This data book is a collection of federal and state statistics regarding the Medicaid and CHIP programs that are compiled by MACPAC from multiple data sources on key...Read MoreBlog: Register Now: February 6th Webinar - Exploring Disparities Using SHADAC's State Health Compare
Jan. 15, 2019: Exploring Disparities Using New and Updated Measures on SHADAC’s State Health Compare: State-Level Highlights for Unaffordable Rents, Unhealthy Days, and More Date: February 6, 2019 Time: 1:00 p.m. – 2:00 p.m. Central Register now. Join us on Wednesday, February 6th at 1:00 PM...Read MoreBlog: Updated Health Insurance Coverage Estimates Available for All U.S. Counties
Jan. 14, 2019: SHADAC tables of state and county uninsurance estimates for 2013 to 2017 are now available via clickable map. Users can click a state to access a table of 5-year uninsurance estimates for each state as a whole, as well as all counties located within, using data from the American...Read MoreState and County Coverage Estimates, 2013-2017 ACS
Jan. 14, 2019: Use this clickable map to see health insurance coverage estimates for each state and all counties for the pooled years 2013-2017. Counties are searchable by bookmark in each state file. 2013-2017 American Community Survey (ACS) 5-Year Estimates: Percent Uninsured,...Read MorePages
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