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Best Practices in SHAP Outreach, Eligibility, and Enrollment Activities

This brief describes the promising approaches that five states shared with regards to the promising approaches  to outreach and streamlining application and enrollment processes, and consider the implications of these practices for implementing the ACA. This is one of two briefs that draw on… Read More

SHAP Enrollment and Eligibility Activities: Implications for Process and System Modernization under National Health Reform

SHADAC Issue Brief #29 describes the best practices that five states shared related to system design and business requirements of streamlining application and enrollment processes, and modernizing eligibility determination systems for ACA implementation. This is one of two briefs that draw on… Read More

Developing an Evaluation Framework for the Affordable Care Act

As part of SHADAC’s technical assistance to support the State Health Reform Assistance Network (State Network), we hosted a gathering of several states on April 30 and May 1 in Minneapolis, MN.  The meeting, titled, "Developing an Evaluation Framework for the Affordable Care Act," was designed… Read More

Barriers to Care among Publicly Insured Adults

Kathleen Call presented "Barriers to Care among Publicly Insured Adults," at the Health Equity Conference , Eliminating Health Disparities Conference, hosted by the University of Minnesota's Center for Health Equity, Program in Health Disparities Research, and Minnesota Center for… Read More

Planning for Expansion Populations - Demographic Data Sources

Presentation by Lynn Blewett, "Planning for Expansion Populations - Demographic Data Sources," at the National Governors Association's Planning for Expansion Populations Meeting on April 19, 2012, Minneapolis, MN. Download a PDF version of the slides here.   Read More

Reflections on TEDMED 2012

April 17, 2012: From the desk of SHADAC Director Lynn Blewett Last week I had the privilege of attending TEDMED, the annual “grand gathering” of people who are imagining the future of health and medicine.  Thank you to the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation for inviting me to TEDMED as their… Read More

SHADAC and SHARE April 17 Newsletter Released

SHADAC and SHARE's newsletter provides up-to-date information on recent publications and presentations, news from and about the states, and announcements of upcoming events. Stay informed by signing up for our email list. View the SHADAC/SHARE Newsletter for April 17, 2012. Read More

Using Population Data to Understand the Impact of the ACA

Presentation by Lynn Blewett, "Using Population Data to Understand the Impact of the ACA," to the Association for Community Affiliated Plans (ACAP), April 11, 2012, Washington DC. Download a PDF version of the slides. Read More

State Data Spotlight: Iowa Tax Information to Enroll Eligible Kids

The Iowa Department of Revenue (IDR) and the Iowa Department of Human Services (DHS) collaborated in 2008 in order to collect necessary information via tax forms to decide which Iowa children are uninsured yet meet the requirements to qualify for  hawk-i (Iowa’s CHIP) or Medicaid. Iowa used… Read More

State-Level Health Insurance Coverage Estimates from the 2010 American Community Survey

SHADAC Issue Brief #28 provides state-level estimates of health insurance coverage by age and income from the 2010 American Community Survey (ACS).   The maps and tables included in this brief provide state-level estimates for the nonelderly population (age 0 to 64), children (age 0 to 18),… Read More

SHADAC Webinar April 10: Data Center Updates and the Health Insurance Unit

SHADAC will host a webinar on April 10 (2:00PM EDT) to discuss recent updates to the Data Center online table generator and the development of our new health insurance unit (HIU). Webinar archive and presentation slides In this webinar SHADAC Senior Research Fellow Joanna Turner will lead a… Read More

Predicting the Effects of the Affordable Care Act

The 2010 Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA) calls for significant policy changes that have meaningful and widespread implications for the U.S. health system. Given the magnitude and breadth of these provisions, policymakers and analysts need tools to estimate the potential effects on… Read More

The New Health Insurance Unit

March 26, 2012: SHADAC recently introduced a new concept for analyzing health insurance coverage as it relates to family interrelationships. We call this the health insurance unit, or HIU, and have integrated this into our Data Center estimates and have made the code publicly available for… Read More

SHADAC Data Center Updated

SHADAC updated the Data Center online table generator with several enhancements and minor revisions.  Major revisions include: Addition of the 2010 American Community Survey estimates. Revisions to all data sources to include calculation of health insurance coverage by family unit and… Read More

Webinar: SHADAC's Data Center and the Health Insurance Unit

SHADAC Webinar:  April 10, 2012Presentation slidesTranscript PDFThe webinar archive can be viewed on the lower part of this page.SHADAC has implemented several enhancements to its Data Center online table generator and hosted this webinar to discuss the changes.In this webinar SHADAC Senior… Read More

Data Center Tool Tips

This file describes the filters and variables used in SHADAC's Data Center.  Updated March 2012. Read More

Data Center Revisions, March 2012

This file describes the revisions to SHADAC's Data Center applied on March 15, 2012. Read More

Webinar: Predicting the Effects of the ACA - Understanding Microsimulation Models

 Microsimulation models are increasingly being used to inform the many policy decisions raised by the Affordable Care Act (ACA).  They are important tools for estimating the potential impact of public policies on the behavior of individuals and/or organizations with respect to one or more… Read More

Modeling the Impacts of the ACA on Health Insurance Coverage: A New Tool for States

Presentation by SHADAC Deputy Director Julie Sonier at the Minnesota Health Services Research Conference, held March 6, 2012 in St. Paul, MN. This presentation describes a modeling tool of state Affordable Care Act impacts on coverage that allows users to input/change assumptions and allows for… Read More

State Variation in Out-of-Pocket Spending for Health Care: Preliminary Findings from new data in the CPS

Presentation by SHADAC Senior Research Fellow Lacey Hartman at the Minnesota Health Services Research Conference, held March 6, 2012 in St. Paul, MN. This presentation describes the new questions related to medical out-of-pockect spending added to the Current Population Survey in 2010 (… Read More