Oct. 17, 2018:Jhih-Yun Liu joined SHADAC as a Graduate Research Assistant in June 2020. She is a Ph.D. student in the Applied Economics Program at the University of Minnesota. She holds a bachelor’s and master’s degree in Agricultural Economics from National Taiwan University. Her research interests...Read More
Oct. 11, 2018:
On August 24th, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid (CMS) released a Final Administrative Order that would revise and recalculate their payments toward Basic Health Programs (BHPs). Only two states have established BHPs—Minnesota and New York—under Section 1331 of the Affordable Care Act...Read More
Oct. 09, 2018:This brief provides an annual update to comparisons of uninsurance estimates from four federal surveys1:
The American Community Survey (ACS)
The Current Population Survey (CPS)
The Medical Expenditure Panel Survey - Household Component (MEPS-HC)
The National Health Interview Survey (...Read More
Oct. 01, 2018:The nation’s attention has recently concentrated on health insurance coverage purchased through Affordable Care Act marketplaces, but it is important to remember that the majority of non-elderly Americans (51.6%) continue to get their health insurance coverage from an employer.[1] A new...Read More
Oct. 01, 2018:Chartbook
This SHADAC chartbook uses data from the Medical Expenditure Panel Survey-Insurance Component (MEPS-IC) to highlight the experiences of private-sector workers with employer-sponsored insurance (ESI) from 2013 through 2017 at the national level and...Read More
Sep. 21, 2018:The Minnesota State Employee Group Insurance Program (SEGIP) has covered Minnesota state employees and their dependents using a tiered provider model since 2002. A recent SHARE-funded analysis led by Dr. Bryan Dowd (University of Minnesota) examined the SEGIP tiering model as well as patient...Read More
Sep. 18, 2018:Date: September 18, 2018
Time: 11:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m. Central
Watch a recording of the event below, or download a PDF of the slides and the event transcript.
This webinar provided an overview of the 2017 health insurance coverage estimates from two...Read More
Sep. 17, 2018:The map on this page linkes to tables containing state and county uninsurance estimates for 2017. These estimates come from the 2017 American Community Survey (ACS) via the U.S. Census Bureau's American FactFinder (AFF) tool and were released on September 13, 2018.
Click on a state to see...Read More
Sep. 17, 2018:
SHADAC has produced tables of state and county uninsurance estimates for 2017 and comparison year 2016. These estimates come from the 2017 American Community Survey (ACS) via the U.S. Census Bureau's American FactFinder (AFF) tool and were released on September 13...Read More
Sep. 13, 2018:The U.S. Census Bureau released the full state files for the 2017 American Community Survey (ACS) today, including state-level information about health insurance coverage by coverage type.
Coverage by Type, 2016-2017: Nationally, Private Coverage Down and Public Coverage Stable
The ACS found...Read More
Sep. 12, 2018:New health insurance coverage estimates from the American Community Survey (ACS) show that there was a statistically significant 0.2 percentage point increase in the national uninsured rate between 2016 and 2017. Uninsurance also increased in 14 states between 2016 and 2017, and decreased...Read More
Sep. 07, 2018:Andrea Stewart joined SHADAC in 2018 as a Marketing and Communications Specialist, providing project research, editorial, and presentation support to internal staff and external partners; organizing and
executing external communications outreach to SHADAC audiences; and managing SHADAC’s web and...Read More
Sep. 06, 2018:Tatiana "Annie" Gowlovech joined SHADAC as a Graduate Research Assistant in August 2023. She is a first-year MPH student at the University of Minnesota School of Public Health, with a concentration in infectious disease epidemiology. She holds a bachelor's degree in Community & Public Health...Read More
Sep. 05, 2018:Date: September 5, 2018
Time: 12:00 p.m. - 1:00 p.m. Central
Watch a recording of the event below, or download a PDF of the presentation slides and the event transcript.
Between 2000 and 2016, the annual number of drug overdose deaths in the United States more than...Read More
Aug. 29, 2018:The National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS) released health insurance coverage estimates for Q1 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. Nationwide...Read More
Aug. 16, 2018:It is increasingly clear that health is determined not just by biological and clinical factors but to a greater extent by socio-demographic factors. With this in mind, we need data for monitoring the social determinants of health just as we do for monitoring biological and clinical determinants....Read More
Aug. 09, 2018:In a recent blog post, we highlighted an issue brief examining the evolution of the opioid overdose crisis at the national level, finding dramatic increases in deaths from heroin and synthetic opioids within the past few years. This blog post focuses on a related issue brief on state trends in the...Read More
Jul. 24, 2018:Though much attention has been paid to the individual health insurance market, a majority of Americans continue to get health insurance through an employer. Monitoring changes to employer-sponsored insurance (ESI) is critical to understanding Americans’ ability to access and afford health care....Read More
Jul. 19, 2018:SHADAC presentation materials from the 2018 AcademyHealth Annual Research Meeting (ARM) are now available. Click on the presentation titles below to view and download the materials.
“The Intersection of Structural Risk Factors and Insurance-Based Discrimination on Healthcare Access Inequities...Read More
Jul. 18, 2018:
Presentation by Kathleen T. Call at the 2018 AcademyHealth Annual Research Meeting, June 25, 2018 in Seattle, WA.
View PDF of the presentation.
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