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Sep. 19, 2011: View the SHADAC/SHARE newsletter for September 19, 2011.  Read More

Sep. 16, 2011: Michele Burlew presented the poster "Using Macros to Compute US Health Insurance Coverage Estimates for Insertion into a Web-based Table Generator," at the NorthEast SAS User Group conference, held September 11-14, 2011, in Portland, Maine.  Her poster describes the SAS processing… Read More

Sep. 16, 2011: September 16, 2011: SHARE has released a series of three briefs by grantee Michael O’Grady, Senior Fellow at the National Opinion Research Center (NORC), to identify the most useful set of next-generation data linkage projects for the purpose of informing health care reform implementation.… Read More

Sep. 13, 2011: SHADAC prepared this working paper for the Census Bureau to describe a revised data imputation technique for health insurance estimates from the Current Population Survey's Annual Social and Economic Supplement (CPS ASEC).  This paper was originally released in September 2011 and… Read More

Sep. 13, 2011: New estimates from the Current Population Survey show that 49.9 million people (16.3%) were uninsured in the United States in 2010, compared to 49.0 in 2009.  This is not a significant change for the population overall. These estimates show a significant increase in health insurance… Read More

Sep. 9, 2011: The U.S. Census Bureau will release the 2011 Current Population Survey data on September 13, reflecting calendar year 2010.  The release will be announced with a web conference at 10:00 AM Eastern time.  Viewing information is at this link.  The health insurance estimates will be… Read More

Sep. 6, 2011: View the SHADAC/SHARE newsletter for September 6, 2011.  Read More

Sep. 6, 2011: “Logic Models for Stakeholder Communication” introduces the concept of logic models, describes their use in health program planning projects, and gives guidance on how to create a logic model tailored to your program’s needs. Read More

Sep. 2, 2011: September 3, 2011: Join SHADAC for a webinar to discuss the 2010 state health insurance coverage estimates from the American Community Survey (ACS) and Current Population Survey (CPS).  The event will take place on September 23, 2011, at 1:00 p.m. Eastern Time. SHADAC staff will… Read More

Sep. 2, 2011: “The Impact of Outreach" describe methods of tracking impact of outreach with a specific focus on health coverage programs. Read More

Sep. 2, 2011: Elizabeth Lukanen presented "Key Lessons Learned from the SHAP Program -  Data and Evaluation," at the final all-grantee meeting of the State Health Access Program (SHAP), held August 23-24, 2011, in Washington, DC. Download a PDF version of these slides. Read More

Aug. 31, 2011: SHADAC has developed a brief analysis of primary care capacity for each SHAP grantee state. Each two page brief includes: A map of the distribution of the projected Medicaid eligible population ages 19 to 64 in 2014 for the state, by county. A table that illustrates the characteristics… Read More

Aug. 31, 2011: Lynn Blewett and Elizabeth Lukanen participated in the final all-grantee meeting of the State Health Access Program (SHAP), held August 23-24, 2011, in Washington, DC.  Lynn led a session on Health Reform and Provider Capacity. Her presentation "Health Reform and Provider Capacity,… Read More

Aug. 22, 2011: View the SHADAC/SHARE newsletter for August 22, 2011. Read More

Aug. 22, 2011: August 22, 2011: The federal Affordable Care Act (ACA) establishes several income-based eligibility categories for its public coverage and premium subsidy options.  These income categories are each defined by specific upper and lower bounds of the federal poverty level (FPL).  But… Read More

Aug. 17, 2011: August 17, 2011 SHADAC Updated estimates related to employer-sponsored insurance (ESI) in firms with 50 to 99 employees, made available by the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) from the Medical Expenditure Panel Survey - Insurance Component (MEPS IC).  These estimates now… Read More

Aug. 16, 2011: August 16, 2011: The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) and the Department of the Treasury filed three proposed rules last week to assist states as they develop health insurance exchanges under the Affordable Care Act. The proposed Medicaid eligibility rule comes from HHS and… Read More

Aug. 11, 2011: Davern M, Rodin H, Blewett LA, Call KT. Are the Current Population Survey Uninsurance Estimates Too High? An Examination of the Imputation Process. Health Serv Res. 2007;42(5):2038-2055. Research Objective. To determine whether the imputation procedure used to replace missing data by… Read More

Aug. 10, 2011: SHADAC was featured in a recent Minnesota Public Radio article about our work supporting states as they implement federal health reform.  Read the article to learn about how the work we conduct and initiatives of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation to help the states. Read More

Aug. 8, 2011: The SHADAC/SHARE August 8 Newsletter is available for viewing at this link. Read More