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Journal Article: How Much Health Insurance is Enough? Revisiting the Concept of Underinsurance

Oct. 17, 2008: Blewett, L. A., A. Ward, and T. J. Beebe. 2006. “How Much Health Insurance is Enough? Revisiting the Concept of Underinsurance.” Medical Care Research and Review 63(6): 663-700. There is little consensus on what constitutes adequate health insurance coverage. The concept of a...Read More

Journal Article: Meeting the Need for State Level Estimates of Health Insurance Coverage: What Has Been Done and How it Can Be Improved

Oct. 17, 2008: Blewett, L. A. and M. Davern. 2006. “Meeting the Need for State Level Estimates of Health Insurance Coverage: What Has Been Done and How it Can Be Improved” Health Services Research 41(3): 946-75. OBJECTIVE: Critically review estimates of health insurance coverage available from different sources...Read More

Journal Article: Inpatient Hospital Utilization among the Uninsured Near Elderly: Data and Policy Implications for West Virginia

Oct. 17, 2008: Spencer, D. L., S. Richardson, and M. McCormick. 2007. "Inpatient Hospital Utilization among the Uninsured Near Elderly: Data and Policy Implications for West Virginia." Health Services Research 42(6, part II): 2442-2457. OBJECTIVE: To inform state policy discussions about the insurance coverage...Read More

Journal Article: Agreement between Self-Reported and Administrative Race and Ethnicity Data among Medicaid Enrollees in Minnesota

Oct. 17, 2008: McAlpine, D., Beebe, T. J., Davern, M. E., & Call, K. T. 2007. “Agreement between Self-Reported and Administrative Race and Ethnicity Data among Medicaid Enrollees in Minnesota.” Health Services Research 42(6, part II): 2373-2388. OBJECTIVE: This paper measures agreement between survey and...Read More

Journal Article: Are the CPS Uninsurance Estimates Too High? An Examination of Imputation

Oct. 17, 2008: Davern, M., H. Rodin, K. T. Call, and L. A. Blewett. 2007. “Are the CPS Uninsurance Estimates Too High? An Examination of Imputation.” Health Services Research 42(5): 2038-2055. RESEARCH OBJECTIVE: To determine whether the imputation procedure used to replace missing data by the U.S. Census...Read More

Journal Article: Are Surname Telephone Oversamples an Efficient Way to Better Understand the Health and Healthcare of Minority Group Members?

Oct. 17, 2008: Davern, M., D. McAlpine, J. Ziegenfuss, and T. J. Beebe. 2007. “Are Surname Telephone Oversamples an Efficient Way to Better Understand the Health and Healthcare of Minority Group Members?” Medical Care 45(11): 1098-1104. OBJECTIVES: Surname oversamples are commonly used in health research to...Read More

Journal Article: Estimating Regression Standard Errors Using the Current Population Survey’s Public Use File

Oct. 17, 2008: Davern, M., A. Jones, J. Lepkowski, G. Davidson, and L. A. Blewett. 2007. “Estimating Regression Standard Errors Using the Current Population Survey’s Public Use File.” Inquiry 44(2): 211-224. This study examines whether reasonable standard errors for multivariate models can be calculated using...Read More

Journal Article: Estimates of Health Insurance Coverage: Comparing State Surveys to the Current Population Survey

Oct. 17, 2008: Call, K. T., M. Davern, and L. A. Blewett. 2007. "Estimates of Health Insurance Coverage: Comparing State Surveys to the Current Population Survey." Health Affairs 26(1):269-78. The Census Bureau produces annual state-level estimates of health insurance coverage using the Current Population...Read More

Journal Article: Health Insurance Coverage and Access to Care Among Rural and Urban Minnesotans

Oct. 17, 2008: Call, K. T., and J. Ziegenfuss. 2007. “Health Insurance Coverage and Access to Care Among Rural and Urban Minnesotans.” Rural Minnesota Journal 2(1):11-36.Read More

Journal Article: Distributing State Children’s Health Insurance Funds: A Critical Review of the Design and Implementation of the Funding Formula

Oct. 17, 2008: Blewett, L. A. and M. Davern. 2007. “Distributing State Children’s Health Insurance Funds: A Critical Review of the Design and Implementation of the Funding Formula. Journal of Health Politics, Policy and Law 32(3):415-55. The development of formulas to distribute federal funds to states based on...Read More

Journal Article: Comparison of Two Within-Household Selection Methods in a Telephone Survey of Substance Abuse and Dependence

Oct. 17, 2008: Beebe, T. J., M. E. Davern, D. McAlpine, and J. Ziegenfuss. 2007. “Comparison of Two Within-Household Selection Methods in a Telephone Survey of Substance Abuse and Dependence.” Annals of Epidemiology 17(6):458-63. PURPOSE: Random-digit dial telephone surveys often rely on the random selection...Read More

Journal Article: Mixing Web and Mail Methods in a Survey of Physicians

Oct. 17, 2008: Beebe, T. J., G. R. Locke, S. A. Barnes, M. Davern, and K.J. Anderson. 2007. “Mixing Web and Mail Methods in a Survey of Physicians.” Health Services Research 42(3 pt1):1219-34. OBJECTIVE: To assess the effects of two different mixed-mode (mail and web survey) combinations on response rates,...Read More

Journal Article: Response Bias and Non-Response Adjustments: Evidence from a Smoking Cessation Survey Regarding the Utility of Resp Disp

Oct. 17, 2008: Baines, A., M. Partin, M. Davern and T. Rockwood. 2007. “Response Bias and Non-Response Adjustments: Evidence from a Smoking Cessation Survey Regarding the Utility of Respondent Disposition Information for Post-Stratification Adjustments.” Journal of Clinical Epidemiology 60(12):1246-55....Read More

Evaluation of 12-Month Continuous Eligibility in Medicaid (2008)

Oct. 17, 2008: Principal Investigator: E. Richard Brown, PhD, UCLA This study assesses whether instituting 12-month continuous eligibility directly benefited California’s children enrolled in Medi-Cal by improving their health care utilization outcomes, specifically increasing their rates of well-child visits...Read More

Evaluating the Impact of Outreach and Enrollment Strategies in California (2008)

Oct. 17, 2008: Principal Investigator: Michael Cousineau, DrPH, USC Department of Family Medicine This study will address the problem of California’s uninsured children that are eligible but not enrolled in public programs. The objective of this study is to evaluate the effectiveness of outreach and enrollment...Read More

Evaluating Small Group Employer Participation in New Mexico's SCI Program (2008)

Oct. 17, 2008: Principal Investigator: Cynthia Boddie-Willis, MD, MPH, New Mexico Human Service Department  This study will examine the New Mexico State Coverage Insurance (SCI) program that targets working age adults through a public/private partnership program. The principal objective of the study is to...Read More

Assessing the First Use of Auto-Enrollment for a State Coverage Expansion (2008)

Oct. 17, 2008: Principal Investigator: Stan Dorn, JD, Urban Institute This study will focus on Massachusetts’ use of Uncompensated Care Pool data to auto enroll people into CommCare. The study will use CPS data, encounter data and a supplement to the Massachusetts Health Reform Survey (MHRS) to assess take-up...Read More

Evaluating Wisconsin’s BadgerCare Plus Reform Package: Effects On Enrollment, Efficiency, and Churning (2008)

Oct. 17, 2008: Principal Investigator: Thomas Oliver, PhD, University of Wisconsin Population Health Institute  This study will evaluate the program simplification initiatives that were part of BadgerCare Plus and how they affect enrollment, including overall coverage rates and target efficiency, churning...Read More

Evaluating the Implementation, Adoption and Outcomes of the Rhode Island HealthPact Plans & Global Waiver (2008)

Oct. 17, 2008: Principal Investigator: Vincent Mor, PhD, Brown University This study will evaluate the adoption, implementation, and outcomes of the HEALTHpact plan in Rhode Island, a small group plan with two levels of coverage based on several healthy living pledges. The study will use key informant...Read More

Incremental Strategies to Cover Low-Income Uninsured Adults (2008)

Oct. 17, 2008: Principal Investigator: Lisa Dubay, PhD, ScM, Johns Hopkins University This study will evaluate reform efforts in the following five states where incremental progress in expanding health coverage to adults via Section 1115 demonstration waiver authority has been the primary strategy: Illinois,...Read More

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