Mar. 26, 2019:In hopes of stabilizing individual insurance markets, the idea of reinsurance—a product designed to protect health insurers against the financial risk of covering high-cost enrollees—has attracted bipartisan interest from state and national policymakers.
Alaska, Minnesota, and Oregon...Read More
Mar. 25, 2019:In a recent interview with the University of Minnesota, SHADAC researcher Colin Planalp provided an overview of recent trends in the nation's evolving opioid crisis, discussing the growth in opioid overdose deaths since 2000, and how Minnesota’s statistics on opioid overdoses compare...Read More
Mar. 21, 2019:Reinsurance, an insurance product designed to protect health insurers against the financial risk of covering high-cost enrollees, has attracted bipartisan policy interest as a mechanism to stabilize individual health insurance markets. Three states—Alaska, Minnesota, and Oregon—have implemented...Read More
Mar. 20, 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 and moving toward alternative payment models that reward value.
Many of the states leading the...Read More
Mar. 20, 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 and moving toward alternative payment models that reward value.
Many of the states leading the...Read More
Mar. 05, 2019:After implementing a cross-sector collaboration between medical providers, nonmedical service providers, and a wide range of other stakeholders in the community, the town of Little Falls, Minnesota, saw a reduction in opioid use and abuse among patients at the local hospital and clinic and within...Read More
Feb. 27, 2019:Nationwide, the uninsurance rate among non-elderly adults (ages 18-64) in the first three quarters of 2018 was 13.0%, statistically unchanged from 12.7% in the same period in 2017.
This finding is based on new health insurance coverage estimates for Q1-Q3 2018 from the National Health Interview...Read More
Feb. 25, 2019:Americans spend more on prescription medications per capita than residents of any other nation due to higher U.S. drug prices. In 2016, prescription drugs accounted for an estimated 14.1 percent of total national health care costs, or $471 billion. [1],[2] The high prices of prescription drugs have...Read More
Feb. 19, 2019:A new SHADAC analysis, prepared for the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, examines the use of 1332 State Innovations Waivers to stabilize individual health insurance markets. SHADAC researchers compared the use of this strategy in Alaska, Minnesota, and Oregon, assessing how these states navigated...Read More
Feb. 12, 2019:Much of the attention paid to the national opioid crisis in recent years has focused on the national toll of the crisis, such as the more than 44,000 opioid overdose deaths reported nationally in 2017.[1] However, the dynamics of the crisis vary widely across states, both in the prevalence of...Read More
Feb. 06, 2019:Date: February 6, 2019
Time: 1:00 p.m. – 2:00 p.m. Central
Click to view the webinar recording below. You can also download the slides as a PDF or download a copy of the event transcript.
On Wednesday, February 6th at 1:00 PM Central, SHADAC hosted a...Read More
Feb. 05, 2019:In 2017, Alaska, Minnesota, and Oregon became the first three states to receive federal approval to establish state reinsurance programs with federal funding via section 1332 State Innovation Waivers, which authorize states to waive key requirements under the law in order to experiment with dif...Read More
Jan. 29, 2019:SHADAC has recently updated our State Health Compare estimates on opioid-related drug overdose deaths to include data from 2017. Data on this measure, which examines natural and semi-synthetic opioids, synthetic opioids, and heroin, are now available for years 1999 to 2017.
We have also added...Read More
Jan. 18, 2019:The Medicaid and CHIP Payment and Access Commission (MACPAC) recently released the 2018 version of its Medicaid and CHIP Data Book. This data book is a collection of federal and state statistics regarding the Medicaid and CHIP programs that are compiled by MACPAC from multiple data sources on key...Read More
Jan. 15, 2019:Exploring Disparities Using New and Updated Measures on SHADAC’s State Health Compare: State-Level Highlights for Unaffordable Rents, Unhealthy Days, and More
Date: February 6, 2019
Time: 1:00 p.m. – 2:00 p.m. Central
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Join us on Wednesday, February 6th at 1:00 PM...Read More
Jan. 14, 2019:SHADAC tables of state and county uninsurance estimates for 2013 to 2017 are now available via clickable map. Users can click a state to access a table of 5-year uninsurance estimates for each state as a whole, as well as all counties located within, using data from the American...Read More
Jan. 14, 2019:Use this clickable map to see health insurance coverage estimates for each state and all counties for the pooled years 2013-2017.
Counties are searchable by bookmark in each state file.
2013-2017 American Community Survey (ACS) 5-Year Estimates:
Percent Uninsured,...Read More
Jan. 11, 2019:Adult Unhealthy Days is a new measure on SHADAC’s State Health Compare that provides state-level estimates of the average number of days in the past 30 days that an adult’s mental or physical health was not good. The measure is available as a combination of physically and mentally unhealthy days...Read More
Jan. 10, 2019:Social Determinants
Policymakers are increasingly recognizing the important role that social and economic factors, such as housing, healthy food, and income play in driving health care outcomes. Our researchers have focused on developing technical resources for states, such as how to use federal...Read More
Dec. 20, 2018:
An analysis by SHADAC examines housing affordability, looking specifically at the percent of rental households that spend more than 30% of their monthly income on rent. This measure is now available on SHADAC’s State Health Compare for all states from 2012 through 2017, and can be broken...Read More