Jun. 27, 2019:Presentation by Brett Fried at the 2019 ACS Data Users Conference. May 15, 2018 in Washington, D.C.
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Jun. 21, 2019:Surveys are the only source of data on the uninsured rate in the United States. The idea for a certain amount of federal monitoring of insurance status through standardized Internal Revenue Service (IRS) forms was included with the introduction of the Affordable Care Act (ACA), but...Read More
Jun. 19, 2019:The aim of this report is to describe the CHIME study design and sampling strategy and to report matching and response rates.
About the CHIME Study
Because there is no comprehensive administrative record of health insurance coverage in the United States, we must rely on household...Read More
Jun. 18, 2019:The cost of health care continues to grow nationwide, with U.S. health care spending reaching $3.5 trillion, or an average of $10,739 per person, in 2017.[1] As these expenditures have grown, the cost of health insurance has grown as well, such that Americans are increasingly enrolling in health...Read More
Jun. 10, 2019:Over the past two decades, the United States has experienced a growing crisis of substance abuse and addiction that is illustrated most starkly by the rise in deaths from drug overdoses. Since 2000, the annual number of drug overdose deaths has quadrupled from 17,500 to 70,000 in 2017.1,2 Most of...Read More
Jun. 10, 2019:Over the past two decades, the United States has experienced a growing crisis of substance abuse and addiction that is illustrated most starkly by the rise in deaths from drug overdoses. Since 2000, the annual number of drug overdose deaths has quadrupled from 17,500 to 70,000 in 2017.1,2 Most of...Read More
Jun. 06, 2019:Date: June 24, 2019
Time: 12:00 - 1:30 p.m. Central / 1:00 p.m. - 2:30 p.m. Eastern
View a recording of the "Supporting Payment and Delivery System Reform through Multipayer Quality Measure Alignment" webinar.
The State Health Access Data Assistance Center (SHADAC) will...Read More
Jun. 06, 2019:Date: June 24, 2019
Time: 12:00 - 1:30 p.m. Central / 1:00 p.m. - 2:30 p.m. Eastern
The State Health Access Data Assistance Center (SHADAC) hosted a webinar on June 24, 2019, on multipayer quality measure alignment as a strategy for supporting health care payment and delivery...Read More
May. 29, 2019:A number of SHADAC researchers will be presenting their research at the 2019 AcademyHealth Annual Research Meeting (ARM) in Washington, D.C., from Sunday, June 2nd to Tuesday, June 4th, and at the State Health Research and Policy Interest Group Meeting on Saturday,...Read More
May. 29, 2019:
Presentation by Lynn Blewett at the 2018 NASHP Annual Conference. August 17, 2018 in Jacksonville, FL.
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May. 22, 2019:More expensive than outpatient or primary care, hospitalization contributes substantially to healthcare costs, with hospital care accounting for 33% of healthcare spending, or $1.1 trillion, in 2017.[1] Reducing potentially preventable hospitalizations—i.e., hospital admissions for certain acute...Read More
May. 14, 2019:The National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS) released health insurance coverage estimates for 2018 from the National Health Interview Survey (NHIS) as part of the NHIS Early Release Program. These are the first available full-year coverage estimates for 2018 from a federal survey, with...Read More
May. 09, 2019:The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s (CDC) Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System (BRFSS) survey can be a valuable data source for researchers seeking to evaluate the impact of health insurance coverage programs such as Medicaid on measures of health outcomes and health behaviors;...Read More
May. 01, 2019:
The national uninsured rate among children increased from 4.7% (about 3.6 million children) in 2016 to 5.0% (about 3.9 million children) in 2017. This increase interrupted a trend of nationwide gains in children’s coverage from 2008 through 2016, during which the uninsured rate dropped by more...Read More
Apr. 29, 2019:Date: May 2, 2019
Time: 11:00 a.m - 12:00 p.m. Central
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The State Health Access Data Assistance Center (SHADAC) and State Health and Value Strategies (SHVS) hosted an online discussion to share new...Read More
Apr. 24, 2019:Date: May 2, 2019
Time: 11:00 a.m - 12:00 p.m. Central
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The State Health Access Data Assistance Center (SHADAC) and State Health and Value Strategies (SHVS) are hosting an online discussion to share new data showing a recent uptick in the rate of uninsured...Read More
Apr. 23, 2019:
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This analysis uses data from the American Community Survey (ACS) to examine: 1) changes in health insurance coverage from 2016 to 2017 for children nationwide and at the state level, and 2) state variation in uninsured rates for children in 2017. We examine coverage...Read More
Apr. 10, 2019:The U.S. Census Bureau released the Small Area Health Insurance Estimates (SAHIE) for 2017, providing estimates of health insurance coverage for all counties and states.
The SAHIE program is the only source of single-year health insurance estimates for every county in the US....Read More
Apr. 05, 2019: Join us for a lively discussion of the current state of health reform in the United States. Professor Lynn Blewett will facilitate a discussion with the Kaiser Family Foundation’s Larry Levitt on recent and perhaps pivotal events in health policy. We will discuss the latest ruling by a federal...Read More
Mar. 26, 2019:In an effort to improve quality and contain the growing cost of health care, states are increasingly undertaking a shift away from fee-for-service reimbursement models that reward quantity of services and moving toward alternative payment models that reward value. Many of the states leading the way...Read More