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Journal Article: Using Enrollment Records to Evaluate Self-Reports of Monthly Coverage in the Redesigned Current Population Survey Health Insurance Module

Jan. 31, 2024: This journal article was originally published on January 23, 2024, in Health Services Research. Introduction This article, authored by SHADAC Investigator Dr. Kathleen T. Call alongside colleagues from the U.S. Census Bureau Angela R. Fertig and Joanne Pascale, explores the...Read More

Journal Article: SHADAC in JHPPL: The Future of State All-Payer Claims Databases

Jan. 24, 2023: This journal article was originally published in Volume 48, Issue 1 of the Journal of Health Politics, Policy and Law (JHPPL).   Authors: Lynn A. Blewett, PhD, MPA, Natalie Schwehr Mac Arthur, PhD, MAc, and James Campbell SHADAC researchers recently published an article...Read More

Journal Article: SHADAC Researchers Co-Author Maternal and Child Health Journal Article on Medical Home Contributions to Child Health Outcomes

Dec. 09, 2022: SHADAC researchers Natalie Mac Arthur and Lynn Blewett recently published a journal article in Maternal and Child Health Journal that examines the medical home model—a widely accepted model of team-based primary care—and its unique contributions to child health outcomes.   Their...Read More

Journal Article: SHADAC in AJPH: Insurance-Based Discrimination Reports and Access to Care Among Non-Elderly U.S. Adults, 2011-2019

Dec. 08, 2022: This journal article was originally published in the American Journal of Public Health (AJPH). Authors: Kathleen Thiede Call, PhD, Giovann Alarcon-Espinoza, PhD, MPP, Natalie Schwer Mac Arthur, PhD, MAc, and Rhonda Jones-Webb, DrPH SHADAC researchers and external co-authors recently...Read More

Journal Article: Impacts of the Affordable Care Act Medicaid Expansion in California (CJPP)

Aug. 25, 2021: This Journal article was originally published in the California Journal of Politics and Policy. Introduction A cornerstone aim of the Affordable Care Act (ACA) was to make health insurance coverage readily available to more people in the United States through policies such as new...Read More

Journal Article: Factors associated with accurate reporting of public and private health insurance type (HSR)

Aug. 01, 2021: This Journal article was originally published on August 26, 2021, in Health Services Research. Introduction This article authored by SHADAC Investigator Dr. Kathleen T. Call, and colleagues from the U.S. Census Bureau Angela R. Fertig and Joanne Pascale, explores factors associated with...Read More

Journal Article: SHADAC Article in Journal of Aging & Social Policy Urges States to Use COVID-19 Flexible Medicaid Authority for LTSS Eligibility

Jun. 30, 2020: In response to the current public health emergency presented by COVID-19, especially the health risks pertaining to low-income older adults and disabled persons, states have been given new authority with regard to Medicaid in order to ease traditional complications and restrictions surrounding...Read More

Journal Article: Medicaid expansion and the Medicaid undercount in the American Community Survey (Health Services Research Article)

Nov. 20, 2019: Researchers at SHADAC have long been interested in the issue of “Medicaid undercount,” or the discrepancies that exist between survey estimates of enrollment in Medicaid and the number of enrollees that are actually reported in state and national administrative data—a pattern in which the...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

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

Journal 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 More

Journal 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 More

Journal Article: Affordable Care Act Impact in Kentucky: Increasing Access, Reducing Disparities

May. 29, 2018: The American Journal of Public Health (AJPH) has just released a SHADAC-authored article, “Affordable Care Act in Kentucky: Increasing Access, Reducing Disparities.” The piece was co-authored by SHADAC Director Lynn A. Blewett along with SHADAC researchers Colin Planalp and Giovann Alarcón. The...Read More

Journal Article: SHADAC Research in American Journal of Public Health: ACA Led to Increased Health Insurance Access, Reduced Disparities in Kentucky

May. 29, 2018: The American Journal of Public Health (AJPH) has just released a SHADAC-authored article, “Affordable Care Act in Kentucky: Increasing Access, Reducing Disparities.” The piece was co-authored by SHADAC Director Lynn A. Blewett along with SHADAC researchers Colin Planalp and Giovann Alarcón. The...Read More

Journal Article: Recent Changes in Health Insurance Coverage for Urban and Rural Veterans: Evidence from the First Year of the Affordable Care Act

Apr. 10, 2018: Boudreaux M, Barath D, & Blewett LA. (2018). "Recent Changes in Health Insurance Coverage for Urban and Rural Veterans: Evidence from the First Year of the Affordable Care Act." Military Medicine 00. doi: 10.1093/milmed/usy053 This article provides an analysis of the impact of...Read More

Journal Article: Health Care Coverage and Access Among Children, Adolescents, and Young Adults, 2010-2016: Implications for Future Health Reforms

Mar. 01, 2018: Spencer, DL, McManus, M, Call, KT, Turner, J, Harwood, C., White P, & Alarcon, G. (2018). "Health Care Coverage and Access Among children, Adolescents, and Young Adults, 2010-2016: Implications for Future Health Reforms." Journal of Adolescent Health. doi: 10.1016/j.jadohealth.2017.12...Read More

Journal Article: Integrating Community Health Workers into Medical Homes

Jan. 10, 2018: Rogers, EA, Manser, ST, Cleary J, Joseph AM, Harwood EM, & Call KT. (2018). "Integrating Community Health Workers Into Medical Homes." Annals of Family Medicine 16(1): 13-20. doi: 10.1370/afm.2171 This article details a qualitative analysis that (1) identified facilitators and...Read More

Journal Article: Data Resources for Conducting Health Services and Policy Research

Dec. 31, 2017:   Blewett, LA, Call, KT, Turner J, & Hest, R. (2017). "Data Resources for Conducting Health Services and Policy Research." Annual Review of Public Health 39: 437-452. doi: 10.1146/annurev-publhealth-040617-013544  This article examines six federal household surveys...Read More

Journal Article: Barriers to Care and Health Care Utilization among the Publicly Insured

Mar. 10, 2017: Allen, EM, Call, KT, Beebe TJ, McAlpine DD, & Johnson PJ. (2017). "Barriers to Care and Health Care Utilization among the Publicly Insured." Medical Care 55(3): 207-214. doi: 10.1097/MLR.0000000000000644. This paper examines 2008 survey of adult enrolles in Minnesota's public...Read More

Journal Article: Lynn Blewett on Health Affairs Blog: Capping Enrollment in Minnesota’s Individual Market

Oct. 19, 2016: In a new piece on the Health Affairs Blog, SHADAC Principal Investigator Lynn Blewett discusses the recently announced plan, brokered by the Minnesota Department of Commerce, to cap enrollment in Minnesota’s individual market in an effort to prevent the market from collapsing. The Caps...Read More

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