Jan. 24, 2024:Introduction
Childhood Vaccinations are an effective way to protect infants and young children from harmful diseases that can cause serious illness or death. Children are commonly vaccinated against a number of diseases, including chickenpox (Varicella), polio, hepatitis A and B, and measles,...Read More
Jan. 19, 2024:Following the release of 2022 single-year estimates of health insurance coverage, household income, and poverty levels, the U.S. Census Bureau has now made available 5-year American Community Survey data files. These ACS 5 Year estimates are generated by pooling together five years of American...Read More
Jan. 18, 2024:As part of the ongoing work in Phase 2 of the Medicaid Equity Monitoring Tool project, SHADAC researchers have been working to understand what available data measures currently exist that could be useful in populating a potential Medicaid Equity Monitoring Tool.
In Phase 1, the project team...Read More
Jan. 11, 2024:
The following content is cross-posted from State Health & Value Strategies. Authors: Elizabeth Lukanen, Emily Zylla, and Lindsey Theis, SHADAC
This expert perspective (EP) will be updated by SHADAC experts as additional dashboards/reports go live. Please visit the State Health...Read More
Jan. 11, 2024:
The following content is cross-posted from State Health & Value Strategies.
Authors: Elizabeth Lukanen, Emily Zylla, and Lindsey Theis, SHADAC
This expert perspective (EP) will be updated by SHADAC experts as additional dashboards/reports go live. Please visit the State Health...Read More
Jan. 10, 2024:Introduction
The U.S. Census Bureau’s Household Pulse Survey (HPS) is an online survey that provides up-to-date monthly data on emergent issues and the social and economic wellbeing of U.S. adults. As one of the only sources of publicly available rapid response data, the HPS is a critical tool...Read More
Jan. 03, 2024:The U.S. Census Bureau has released a request for comments regarding proposed revisions and changes for the 2025 American Community Survey. Based on information gained from the 2022 Content Test, proposed changes would affect a variety of topics and questions, including educational attainment,...Read More
Dec. 19, 2023:The State Health Access Data Assistance Center (SHADAC) is partnering with Health Leads for the second phase of its Medicaid Equity Monitoring Tool project.
Supported by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF), the project explores the possibility of using a national Medicaid equity monitoring...Read More
Dec. 06, 2023:The Transformed Medicaid Statistical Information System (T-MSIS) is the largest national database of current Medicaid and Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP) beneficiary information collected from U.S. states, territories, and the District of Columbia (DC).1 T-MSIS data are critical for...Read More
Dec. 04, 2023:
View the U.S. Census Bureau's full request for comments in the September 19th edition of the Federal Register.
On September 19, 2023, the U.S. Census Bureau released a request for comments regarding the proposed addition of test questions...Read More
Nov. 29, 2023:MINNESOTA HEALTH ACCESS SURVEY
Overview of the MNHA Survey
The Minnesota Health Access (MNHA) survey is a statewide web and telephone survey that collects information on how people access health care and health insurance coverage in Minnesota. The survey dates back to 1990 and has been...Read More
Nov. 27, 2023:
On Tuesday, Nov. 14th at 11:00 AM Central SHADAC hosted a webinar in collaboration with the Minnesota Electronic Health Record Consortium.
Health inequities are nothing new in the U.S., but the COVID pandemic has placed them in a new light....Read More
Nov. 16, 2023:
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The following content is cross-posted from State Health & Value Strategies.
Authors: Emily Zylla and Elizabeth Lukanen, SHADAC
States, the federal government, advocates, and the media have all been closely tracking and monitoring the impacts of eligibility redeterminations...Read More
Nov. 15, 2023:Updated November 2023.
Section 1332 of the ACA authorizes states to waive key requirements under the law in order to experiment with policies in the individual and small-group insurance market within certain guardrails. This interactive map provides an overview of the different stages of...Read More
Nov. 08, 2023:The following blog is cross-posted from The California Health Care Foundation.
Author: Lacey Hartman, Senior Research Fellow, SHADAC
Maintaining Gains Hinges on Transitioning People Who Lose Medi-Cal to Other Coverage in Coming Months
The share of Californians under age 65 (“...Read More
Nov. 01, 2023:During 2020 and 2021, the first two years of the COVID-19 pandemic, data show that drug overdose deaths did not subside or plateau, but unfortunately surged alongside the rise of the coronavirus. Growing death rates were driven by a substantive change in the very foundation of the opioid crisis,...Read More
Oct. 25, 2023:Each year, SHADAC uses data released from the American Community Survey (ACS) via the U.S. Census Bureau's data.census.gov tool to produce estimates of uninsurance at the state and county level.*
Click on a state below in the interactive map to see a PDF table of uninsured rates by state and sub...Read More
Oct. 13, 2023:The Medicaid and CHIP Payment and Access Commission contracted with the State Health Access Data Assistance Center (SHADAC) to conduct a review and sample size analysis of 13 federal population health surveys to assess the quality and availability of data for certain populations facing health...Read More
Oct. 03, 2023:The following content is cross-posted from California Health Care Foundation
Author: Lacey Hartman, SHADAC
Previous research has shown that Medi-Cal enrollees fare worse in accessing health care than Californians with employer coverage. A key question is whether and how access to...Read More
Sep. 30, 2023:
Long-Term Services and Supports (LTSS)
Long-term services and supports (LTSS) encompasses the broad range of paid and unpaid medical and personal care assistance that people may need—for several weeks, months, or years—when they experience difficulty completing self-care tasks.1 The...Read More