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 implementation process. The grants focus on a range of topics, including Medicaid, private market coverage, employer-sponsored insurance, access to and utilization of care, health care costs and quality, and benefit design. SHARE will work with the funded projects to produce and disseminate timely, informative, user-friendly findings for state and federal policy-makers and agencies as well as leading researchers.
This is the fifth round of grants awarded under the SHARE program since it began in 2006 with the goal of supporting rigorous research on health reform issues at a state level. In total, we've awarded $9.7 million to fund 51 projects over the life of the program. The new SHARE grants, which range in duration from six to twelve months and in funding from $52,000 to $149,000, include the following projects:
How Much Better is Medicaid than Marketplace Coverage at Easing the Burden of Out-of-Pocket Spending for Near-Poor Adults?
Institution: Urban Institute
Principal Investigator: Fredric Blavin, PhD
The Impact of Changes in Medicaid Eligibility Thresholds on Duration of Health Insurance Coverage and Access to Health Care
Institution: Medica Research Institute
Principal Investigator: Heather Dahlen, PhD
Assist the State of Minnesota with Analysis of a Tiered Clinic Cost-Sharing Health Insurance Benefit Design
Institution: University of Minnesota
Principal Investigator: Bryan Dowd, PhD
The Effect of State Minimum Wage Laws on Medicaid Expansion Outcomes
Institution: RAND Corporation
Principal Investigator: Christine Eibner, PhD
State Benchmarking, Healthcare Outcomes, and Implications for People with Disabilities
Institution: University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
Principal Investigator: Kathleen Thomas, PhD
Evaluating the Impact of the Affordable Care Act on State Medicaid Program Provision of Tobacco Dependence Treatments
Institution: University of California, San Diego
Principal Investigator: Sara McMenamin, PhD
Evaluation of State Policies for Aligning Behavioral Health Coverage between Medicaid and State Health Insurance
Institution: RTI International
Principal Investigator: Alexander Cowell, PhD
Eligibility Criteria for HCBS and the Affordable Care Act
Institution: University of Michigan
Principal Investigator: Brant Fries, PhD
To learn more about the SHARE initiative and our full grant portfolio, visit www.shadac.org/share.
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