Blog & News
Video: Angie Fertig Discusses SHARE-Funded Study of Pent-Up Demand among New Medicaid Enrollees
November 11, 2016:Dr. Angie Fertig, Research Investigator at Medica Research Institute (MRI), is featured in a new MRI Investigator Video in which she discusses her SHARE-funded analysis of pent-up demand among new Medicaid enrollees under the ACA. Check out the video below.
Additional information about this analysis can be found on Dr. Fertig's SHARE grantee page.
Angela Fertig PhD-2016 from Medica Research Institute on Vimeo.
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SHARE Research at APPAM: A State Perspective on the Coverage, Access, & Cost Impacts of the ACA
November 02, 2016:The 2016 Fall Research Conference of the Association for Public Policy Analysis & Management (APPAM) begins tomorrow and runs through Friday in Washington, DC. The conference, which is mutli-displinary in nature, focuses on a range of current and emerging policy and management issues, including health policy. This year's conference theme is "The Role of Research in Making Government More Effective."
Findings from several SHARE-funded studies will be featured during the conference on a panel titled, "State-Level Impacts of the Affordable Care Act: Coverage, Access, and Costs." The panel includes four presentations that examine the effects of the federal Affordable Care Act (ACA) on a range of outcomes, including health insurance coverage, access to care, service utilization, and costs and affordability. In each study, the researchers examine outcomes as a function of state health policy decisions and attributes.
SHARE funded three of these four studies and organized this panel with a state policy lens in mind – recognizing that the impacts of the ACA hinge on individual state decisions and that the ACA, because of its federal scope, provides a unique opportunity to study state variation in a systematic way. The systematic nature of these analyses subsequently supports the generation of evidence that can meaningfully inform and facilitate federal and state policymaking and public management in the areas of health insurance coverage and insurance market regulation.
Click on the links below to learn more about the panel and/or the individual panel presentations.
Panel Details
State-Level Impacts of the Affordable Care Act: Coverage, Access, and Costs
Thursday, November 3, 2016, 1:15PM – 2:45PM
Room: Columbia 9 (Washington Hilton)
Chair: Sharon Long, Urban Institute
Discussants: Kathleen Call, State Health Access Data Assistance Center, and Lisa Dubay, Urban Institute
To Expand Medicaid or Not to Expand Medicaid? Effects of State ACA Medicaid Expansion Decisions on Coverage, Access, Utilization, and Health Status of Low-Income Adults
Speaker: Laura Wherry, University of California, Los Angeles
The Medicaid Expansion States: Effects of Medicaid Coverage on Access, Affordability, Utilization, and Health Status for Newly Eligible and Previously Eligible Adults*
Speaker: Michael Dworsky, RAND Corporation
Early Evidence on Employment Responses to the Affordable Care Act: Employer Coverage Offers*
Speaker: Jean Abraham, University of Minnesota
Specialty Drug Benefit Design and Patient Out-of-Pocket Costs in the ACA Health Insurance Exchanges*
Speaker: Erin Taylor, Pardee RAND Graduate School
*Research supported by SHARE funding
Publication
Physician Participation in Medi-Cal: Is Supply Meeting Demand? (Webcast)
Event Description
Event Materials
California Legislation Mandating Physician Survey
The California law that requires the state's Medical Board to administer a mandatory physician survey is set forth in Section 2425.3 of California's Business and Professions Code. Access the full text of the law.