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Employer-Sponsored Insurance: Premium Growth Slowed in 2015
Dec. 22, 2016 : With the recent focus on health insurance coverage purchased through Affordable Care Act marketplaces, it is easy to forget that the majority of individuals are enrolled in health insurance through their employer (56% in 2015).[1] This blog is the second in a series that highlights the experiences of individuals enrolled in private sector employer-sponsored insurance. It uses data from the... Read moreData Alert: New ACS 5-Year Estimates, Data Center Updates
Dec. 20, 2016 : The new American Community Survey (ACS) 5-year state and county uninsurance estimates for 2011 to 2015 are now available via a SHADAC clickable map. Users can click a state to access a table of uninsurance estimates for the state and all counties. Background: The 5-year ACS is created by pooling together five years of ACS data to produce estimates for areas and subgroups with smaller... Read moreState Medicaid Access Review Monitoring Plans (ARMPs): An Early Look at Data Sources Used by States
Dec. 13, 2016 : In November 2015, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) issued a final rule implementing Medicaid’s “equal access” provision, nearly 25 years after the statute was enacted and more than four years after the rule was initially proposed. One piece of the final rule requires that states develop Access Review Monitoring Plans (ARMPs) to address and analyze the extent to... Read moreSHARE Program Launches Eight New Grants Examining Health Reform at the State Level
Dec. 08, 2016 : SHADAC is pleased to announce the launch of eight new grants awarded through the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation’s State Health Access Reform Evaluation (SHARE) grant program, which is managed by SHADAC. The new SHARE grants support timely, policy-relevant research designed to improve the collective understanding of health reform at the state level and to inform policy and the reform... Read moreHow To Test for Significant Differences Using the SHADAC Data Center: New Brief
Dec. 08, 2016 : The SHADAC Data Center not only provides state-level estimates for health care access, health care utilization, and coverage indicators for several federal surveys, but it also provides information about the margins of error (MOEs) for these estimates. A new technical brief from SHADAC explains how to use these MOEs to calculate whether there is a statistically significant difference... Read moreHow Do Section 1115 Medicaid Expansions Compare with Traditional Expansions? Considerations for Kentucky
Nov. 23, 2016 : The upcoming administration has indicated that it will be looking for ways to give states greater flexibility in how they design their Medicaid programs. One way to achieve this flexibility is through the use of Section 1115 demonstration waivers, through which the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) can approve state-led experimental, pilot, or demonstration projects to evaluate... Read moreVideo: Angie Fertig Discusses SHARE-Funded Study of Pent-Up Demand among New Medicaid Enrollees
Nov. 10, 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... Read moreMore Employees Chose High-Deductible Plans in 2015
Nov. 07, 2016 : With the recent focus on health insurance coverage purchased through Affordable Care Act marketplaces, it is easy to forget that the majority of individuals are enrolled in health insurance through their employer (56% in 2015).[1] This blog is the first in a series that highlights the experiences of individuals enrolled in private sector employer-sponsored insurance. It uses data from the... Read morePages
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