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Exploring Cost and Coverage Rates in Employer-Sponsored Insurance (Infographic)

Throughout the United States, a majority of Americans and their families receive health insurance coverage through their employer. In 2021, the number of people covered by this type of coverage—known as employer-sponsored insurance or ESI—exceeded 169 million. While a fuller picture of the coverage… Read More

New State Health Compare estimates on Adverse Childhood Experiences aim to improve understanding of health inequities

SHADAC has posted updated estimates of the prevalence of adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) to State Health Compare. These new estimates combine six years of data from the National Survey of Children’s Health (NSCH) to enable more precise and granular estimates for smaller racial and ethnic… Read More

Supporting Families: Associations between Neighborhood Support and Child Health Outcomes

BackgroundThe circumstances of peoples’ lives have great influence over their health, often much more than genetics or access to health care—a concept known as “social determinants of health.” One such social determinant is social capital, which includes the networks of relationships that people… Read More

Four Methods for Calculating Income as a Percent of the Federal Poverty Guidelines (FPG) in the Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System (BRFSS)

Image This updated SHADAC brief delves into four common methods for calculating income as a percent of the Federal Poverty Guidelines (FPG) using 2021 estimates from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's Behavioral Risk… Read More

Using Surveys to Monitor Coverage Transitions During the Unwinding of the Medicaid Continuous Coverage Requirement (Cross-Post)

Image . The following content is cross-posted from State Health & Value Strategies.  Authors: Elizabeth Lukanen and Colin Planalp, SHADAC, and Kevin Caudill, GMMB The unwinding of the Medicaid continuous coverage requirement represents the… Read More

SHADAC's Lynn Blewett Featured on 'Hospitals in Focus' Podcast

Image SHADAC Director Dr. Lynn Blewett was recently invited to join Federation of American Hospitals CEO and President Chip Kahn as a guest on his podcast Hospitals in Focus to share her thoughts on the impacts of the unwinding of the… Read More

Minnesota’s COVID-19 vaccine campaign left vulnerable groups with lagging rates

 Two years after COVID-19 shots became available, demographic disparities in vaccination rates were starkHealth inequities are nothing new in Minnesota, but the pandemic placed them in a new light. Numerous studies have reported disparities in how COVID-19 affects many vulnerable groups, often… Read More

Disparities in Minnesota’s COVID-19 Vaccination Rates

A new SHADAC issue brief found stark disparities not only in the share of subpopulations that have been immunized against COVID-19 in Minnesota, but also in the length of time it took vaccines to reach most people in these different groups. Image For… Read More

Data to Monitor the Unwinding of the Medicaid Continuous Coverage Requirement

On July 27, 2023, SHADAC Deputy Director Elizabeth Lukanen presented to the Protecting Immigrant Families Coalition, Medicaid Unwinding Task Force. This presentation included a brief overview of the potential coverage impacts of the unwinding of the Medicaid continuous coverage… Read More

Federal Survey Data Release Schedule

Federal Survey Data Release ScheduleAmerican Community Survey (ACS) An ongoing general household survey conducted by the U.S. Census Bureau provides annual estimates of health insurance coverage at the national, state, and sub-state geographies.Upcoming Releases September 12,… Read More

SHADAC's 2020 Health Insurance Unit and Updated Defining Families Issue Brief

In 2012, SHADAC created and released the SHADAC “Health Insurance Unit,” or “HIU,” to aid researchers in reconciling the differences between the way that a “family” is defined in federal surveys (such as the U.S. Census Bureau’s American Community Survey [ACS] or Current Population Survey [CPS])… Read More

Interventions Likely Prevented Childhood Poverty from Rising During the Pandemic

Research has shown that since the start of the COVID-19 public health crisis, aggressive government interventions, aimed at reducing broader economic fallout as well as individual-level hardship, have been largely sucessful.1 To preempt a potential increase in poverty due to pandemic-… Read More

Best Practices for Publicly Reporting State Unwinding Data (Cross-Post)

Image The following content is cross-posted from State Health & Value Strategies.  Authors: Elizabeth Lukanen, Emily Zylla, SHADAC Original publication date: June 30, 2023. The unwinding of the Medicaid continuous coverage requirement… Read More

Analyzing Forgone Care by Coverage Type: New on State Health Compare

For most Americans, having health insurance is an important first step to being able to access and afford health care when it is needed. As shown in recent data published on SHADAC’s State Health Compare, adults with health insurance coverage were at least 79% less likely to report having forgone (… Read More

Minnesota Health Access Survey 2021 Technical Report

This report describes the Minnesota Health Access Survey (MNHA) data collection process and methodology, emphasizing the most recent administration of the survey completed in 2021. The 2021 MNHA represents the first time using a single address based (ABS) frame.  Image… Read More

Staying Alive in America: Minnesota Public Radio Feature

SHADAC Senior Research Fellow Colin Planalp recently joined Angela Davis on Minnesota Public Radio (MPR) News to discuss life expectancy in the United States. The segment centered on findings from multiple reports, including one out of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, which showed… Read More

SHADAC at the 2023 AcademyHealth Annual Research Meeting

A number of SHADAC researchers will be presenting their work at the 2023 AcademyHealth Annual Research Meeting (ARM) taking place in Seattle, WA from Saturday, June 24 to Tuesday, June 27. For details on research topics and where you can find their posters and presentations, see below.Association… Read More

Now Available on State Health Compare: One Brand New Measure and Five Updated Measures

Estimates for five measures of health care access, affordability, and use have now been updated on SHADAC’s State Health Compare. One new measure, Had Telehealth Visit, has also been added to State Health Compare. The new and updated measures are all produced using data from the National… Read More

Opportunities to Learn More About Serving Justice-Involved Individuals Through 1115 Demonstration Evaluations

Medicaid is a vital source of coverage for the almost four million justice-involved individuals living in the community – individuals who are disproportionately poor and people of color. Upon release from prison or jail, many of these individuals face significant obstacles navigating and accessing… Read More

FPG vs. FPL: What's the Difference?

The terms "FPG" and "FPL" are often used interchangeably, but they are not actually the same thing; there are, in fact, important functional differences between the two concepts. The federal poverty level (FPL) is the income threshold below which a “family,” and every individual… Read More