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Aug. 3, 2011: Michel Boudreaux presented, "Changes to the Imputation Routine for Health Insurance in the CPS ASEC," at the Joint Statistical Meetings of the American Statistical Association, August 3, 2011 in Miami Beach, FL. This reserach reflects work conducted for the U.S. Census Bureau.… Read More

Aug. 3, 2011: Joanna Turner presented "Modeling Health Insurance Coverage Estimates for Minnesota Counties," at the Joint Statistical Meetings of the American Statistical Association, August 1, 2011 in Miami Beach, FL. In this paper SHADAC created a model to predict lack of insurance coverage for Minnesota… Read More

Jul. 29, 2011: July 29, 2011: The federal Affordable Care Act (ACA) introduces a new income definition—Modified Adjusted Gross Income or “MAGI”—for determining Medicaid income eligibility across the country.  Today, rules for counting income for Medicaid vary from state to state, with some states allowing… Read More

Jul. 28, 2011: This ACA Note discusses the implementation of the new income definition--Modified Adjusted Gross Income or "MAGI"--that will be used to determine Medicaid income eligibility across the country in 2014 when the Affordable Care Act (ACA) takes full effect.  The implementation of MAGI is… Read More

Jul. 25, 2011: View the SHADAC/SHARE newsletter for July 25, 2011.  Featured items include: Kathleen Call's discussion of wireless substitution in a University of Minnesota "Expert Alert" video, and the release of MEPS-IC Estimates.  Acces the MEPS-IC tables. Read More

Jul. 21, 2011: SHADAC Issue Brief #25 provides state-level estimates of health insurance coverage by age and income from the American Community Survey (ACS).  The ACS is a relatively new source of state-level health insurance coverage estimates, but its large sample size makes it a potentially powerful… Read More

Jul. 18, 2011: Objectives. We sought to determine whether aggregate national data for American Indians/Alaska Natives (AIANs) mask geographic variation and substantial subnational disparities in prenatal care utilization. Methods. We used data for US births from 1995 to 1997 and from 2000 to 2002 to examine… Read More

Jul. 18, 2011: Objectives  The aim of this study was to examine the impact of the use of an inter-professional care team on patient length of stay and payer charges in a geriatric transitional care unit. Methods  An analysis of de-identified administrative records for transitional care patients… Read More

Jul. 18, 2011: We use data from the National Health Interview Survey (2000-2006) to examine the social determinants of health insurance coverage and access to care for immigrant children by 10 global regions of birth. We find dramatic differences in the social and economic characteristics of immigrant children… Read More

Jul. 18, 2011: OBJECTIVES: We examined whether 3 nationally representative data sources produce consistent estimates of disparities and rates of uninsurance among the American Indian/Alaska Native (AIAN) population and to demonstrate how choice of data source impacts study conclusions. METHODS: We… Read More

Jul. 18, 2011: Background: Disparities in healthcare coverage and access have a prominent place on the national health policy agenda. It is, therefore, essential to understand strengths and limitations of national surveys that provide annual or periodic data for population-based healthcare disparities… Read More

Jul. 18, 2011: Objective. To compare health insurance coverage estimates from the American Community Survey (ACS) to the Current Population Survey (CPS-ASEC). Data Sources/Study Setting. The 2008 ACS and CPS-ASEC, 2009. Study Design. We compare age-specific national rates for all coverage types… Read More

Jul. 18, 2011: July 18, 2011: State officials in Indiana have opened up 8,000 slots for childless adults in the Healthy Indiana Plan (HIP), the state’s health insurance plan for the working poor.  To be eligible for HIP, applicants must earn less than 200 percent of the Federal Poverty Level (FPL… Read More

Jul. 15, 2011: July 15, 2011: The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA) will have far-reaching effects on health insurance coverage, health care financing, and delivery in the United States. Understanding the state-level implications of the ACA allows for better understanding of the national impact… Read More

Jul. 11, 2011: View the SHADAC/SHARE newsletter for July 11, 2011. Read More

Jul. 7, 2011: July 7, 2011: Under new guidelines that took effect on July 1, 2011, children in families earning up to 300 percent of the federal poverty level (FPL) are now eligible for health insurance coverage through West Virginia’s Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP).  This means… Read More

Jul. 6, 2011: From the desk of SHADAC Director Lynn Blewett Minnesota’s Republican-led Legislature and Democratic-Farmer-Labor (DFL) Governor Mark Dayton are still at an impasse, unable to come up with $1 billion to finance the state’s biennial budget.  We are now in the sixth day of the government shutdown… Read More

Jun. 30, 2011: June 30, 2011:  Two newly released reports by the Medicaid and CHIP Payment and Access Commission (MACPAC) feature state level data.  Included are 21 data items such as CHIP spending, optional Medicaid benefits, enrollees, benefit spending, among others. SHADAC compiled a summary of… Read More

Jun. 29, 2011: SHADAC compiled this summary of state-level data and information released by MACPAC in the Medicaid and CHIP Program Statistics (MACStats) section of the March and June 2011 MACPAC reports to Congress.  This serves as a quick reference tool for state analysts and policymakers.  The… Read More

Jun. 28, 2011: June 28, 2011: A new SHADAC report analyzes state-level trends in employer-sponsored health insurance (ESI).  The report finds that the majority of non-elderly Americans continue to have health insurance coverage through an employer (whether as the policyholder or as a dependent), but the… Read More