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Report/Brief: An Introduction to the American Community Survey Health Insurance Coverage Estimates
Sep. 08, 2009: Issue Brief #18 focuses on the American Community Survey (ACS). The ACS is a new source of data for health insurance coverage estimates, with the first year of data (for 2008 calendar year) available in September 2009. The ACS is conducted by the U.S. Census Bureau to provide communities with...Read MoreReport/Brief: SNACC Phase IV Report
Aug. 21, 2009: Report for Phase IV of the Medicaid Undercount Project (SNACC). This phase involved re-using the Phase II process, replacing the CPS data with NHIS data. In addition to providing explanations for discrepancies between the national NHIS and MSIS, comparisons to Phase II results allowed...Read MoreReport/Brief: SNACC Phase III Report
Aug. 21, 2009: Report for Phase III of the Medicaid Undercount Project (SNACC). In this phase data from the state MSIS files, CPS, 2001 Supplemental Survey (SS01), as well as the MAX and Census Bureau Master Address File (MAF) were used. The Census Bureau worked with CMS to negotiate the acquisition of...Read MoreReport/Brief: SNACC Phase II Report
Aug. 21, 2009: Report for Phase II of the Medicaid Undercount Project (SNACC). In this phase data were merged from the Medicaid Analytic Extract (MAX), MSIS, the Current Population Survey (CPS), the Person Characteristic File (PCF), and the Master Address File Auxiliary Reference File (MAFARF). Once matches/non-...Read MoreReport/Brief: SNACC Phase I Report
Aug. 21, 2009: Report for Phase I of the Medicaid Undercount Project (SNACC). This phase involved creating a national database of health-insurance enrollment and evaluate the quality of the information it contains. This was done by merging the CMS Medicaid Statistical Information System (MSIS) files with...Read MoreReport/Brief: Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Health Care Consumer Confidence Index - Results for June 2009
Jul. 23, 2009: This report provides results for the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Health Care Consumer Confidence Index (RWJF Index) for June 2009. The RWJF index is a monthly snapshot of how adults in the United States perceive their financial access to health care.Read MoreReport/Brief: Data Availability for Race, Ethnicity, and Immigrant Groups in Federal Surveys
Jul. 23, 2009: SHADAC Issue Brief #17 focuses on the availability of public use data from selected federal surveys that collect information on health insurance coverage and access to care for race, ethnicity and immigrant group (REI) identifiers. Publicly available data for populations defined by REI...Read MoreReport/Brief: Measurement of Race, Ethnicity, and Immigrant Groups in Federal Surveys
Jul. 23, 2009: SHADAC Issue Brief #16 discusses the collection and classification of survey data for populations defined by race, ethnicity and immigrant (REI) status. SHADAC’s companion brief #17, "Data availability for Race, Ethnicity, and Immigrant Groups in Federal Surveys," discusses availability of...Read MoreReport/Brief: Disparities and Barriers to Utilization among Minnesota Health Care Program Enrollees
Jun. 24, 2009: This report presents findings from a statewide survey of 4,626 Minnesota Health Care Program (MHCP) enrollees conducted either by mail or by telephone between July and December 2008. This survey was funded by the Minnesota Department of Human Services and had four major goals. The first was to...Read MoreReport/Brief: Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Health Care Consumer Confidence Index - Results for April-May 2009
Jun. 18, 2009: This report provides results for the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Health Care Consumer Confidence Index (RWJF Index) for baseline and May 2009. The RWJF index is a monthly snapshot of how adults in the United States perceive their financial access to health care.Read MoreReport/Brief: At the Brink: Trends in America's Uninsured 1994-2007
Mar. 24, 2009: This report, "At the Brink: Trends in America's Uninsured 1994-2007" was released in conjunction with the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation's (RWJF) Cover the Uninsured Week, March 22-28, 2009. The campaign has become the largest nonpartisan mobilization in history seeking solutions for the 45.7...Read MoreReport/Brief: The Impact of Wireless-only Households on State Surveys of Health Insurance Coverage
Mar. 11, 2009: SHADAC's Issue Brief #15 examines the increasing prevalence of cell phone coverage in the U.S., and the consequent increase in the number of people who use their cell phone in place of a landline. The wireless-only trend makes it difficult to reach target populations and may eventually...Read MoreReport/Brief: Trends in and Drivers of Health Expenditures in Idaho
Mar. 10, 2009: This report is one out of a series of five reports prepared for the Idaho Legislature, Office of Performance Evaluations (OPE) and Idaho Health Care Task Force as part of the project, "Idaho’s Health Care Costs and Options to Improve Health Care Access." This report is on Task 5, a study of the...Read MoreReport/Brief: Cataloging Public Health Expenditures in Idaho
Mar. 10, 2009: This report is one out of a series of five reports prepared for the Idaho Office of Performance Evaluations (OPE), the Joint Legislative Oversight Committee, and the Idaho Health Care Task Force as part of the project, "Idaho’s Health Care Costs and Options to Improve Health Care Access." This...Read MoreReport/Brief: State High Risk Pools - An Overview
Dec. 03, 2008: Issue Brief #14 provides an introduction to state high-risk pools, how they are financed, the federal role, and some advantages and challenges related to having a state high-risk pool. Read MoreReport/Brief: Improving Health Care Access for Minnesota’s Growing Latino Community
Oct. 17, 2008: Davidoff, M. J. , E. Ulrich, P. Carrizales, and L. A. Blewett. “Improving Health Care Access for Minnesota’s Growing Latino Community” in Just in Time Research: Resilient Communities. Report # BU-7565. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Hubert H. Humphrey Institute of Public Affairs and...Read MoreReport/Brief: Comparing Federal Government Surveys that Count Uninsured People in America, Aug 2008
Oct. 10, 2008: This brief compares estimates of health insurance coverage from three national health surveys sponsored by the federal government, identifies the differences in their estimates of uninsurance, and identifies three common themes: (1) all the surveys report very large numbers of Americans living...Read MoreReport/Brief: Options for Small Employer Health Insurance in Missouri
Oct. 09, 2008: This report addresses small employer health insurance options for the state of Missouri. It outlines the key attributes, respective benefits and challenges of both purchasing pools and reinsurance, provides examples of state initiatives that combine purchasing pools and reinsurance to better meet...Read MoreReport/Brief: Disparities and Barriers to Utilization among Minnesota Health Care Program Enrollees
Oct. 09, 2008: This report presents findings from a statewide survey of 4,902 Minnesota Health Care Program (MHCP) enrollees designed to assess racial and ethnic disparities in the use of preventive and other health services, as well as barriers that discourage the use of those services. December 2003.Read MoreReport/Brief: 2004 Minnesota Health Access Survey Report
Oct. 09, 2008: A comprehensive report on trends in health insurance coverage in the State of Minnesota from 2001 to 2004. Six chapters contain an overview of health insurance coverage and coverage by income, by race and ethnicity, by age, by adults with and without children, and by geographic region. An appendix...Read MorePages
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