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Apr. 15, 2011: Presentation by Peter Graven, "Health Care Consumer Sentiment Index: Development, Results and Discussion of Reform," at the 10th Health Survey Research Methods Conference, April 9, 2011 in Peachtree City, GA. He discussed methods and development of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation… Read More

Apr. 12, 2011: Join us on Thursday, April 14th, at 12:00 pm Eastern for a webinar featuring Dr. John Czajka, Senior Fellow at Mathematica Policy Research, who will discuss the eligibility challenges that states face under the ACA’s Medicaid provisions and several ways that states might choose to move… Read More

Apr. 7, 2011: April 7, 2011: West Virginia became the second state to authorize the establishment of an insurance exchange on April 4, 2011, when Governor Earl Ray Tomblin signed legislation approving the move.  The West Virginia Health Benefit Exchange will be set up within the state’s insurance… Read More

Apr. 4, 2011: SHADAC and SHARE News April 4, 2011. Download a PDF version of this file. (function() { var scribd = document.createElement("script"); scribd.type = "text/javascript"; scribd.async = true; scribd.src = "http://www.scribd.com/javascripts/embed_code/inject.js"; var s = document.… Read More

Apr. 1, 2011: Call, K. T., Davern, M., Boudreaux, M., Johnson, P. J., & Nelson, J. 2011. "Bias in Telephone Surveys That Do Not Sample Cell Phones: Uses and Limits of Poststratification Adjustments." Medical Care, 49(4), 355. Read More

Mar. 30, 2011: he Exchanges Subgroup of the National Association of Insurance Commissioners (NAIC)’s Health Insurance and Managed Care Committee has issued three draft white papers on health insurance exchanges: The first of the three papers addresses the comparative roles of “Navigators” (as established in ACA §… Read More

Mar. 21, 2011: SHADAC and SHARE News, March 21, 2011 Download a PDF Version of this file (function() { var scribd = document.createElement("script"); scribd.type = "text/javascript"; scribd.async = true; scribd.src = "/javascripts/embed_code/inject.js?1300479309"; var s = document.getElementsByTagName("script… Read More

Mar. 21, 2011: March 21, 2011:  Medicaid block grants have been in the news a lot lately, with a number of governors asking the federal government to switch Medicaid funding from its current matching rate arrangement to a block grant structure.  This request is predicated on the idea that block grants… Read More

Mar. 11, 2011: March 11, 2011: The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) announced in late Feburary that Arizona could drop more than 250,000 people from its Medicaid program without violating the Affordable Care Act (ACA) provision regarding “maintenance of effort” (MOE).  The MOE… Read More

Mar. 9, 2011: SHADAC released a new brief to help state health policy analysts understand how federal surveys can be used for state-level information to monitor the impact of health reform.  "Monitoring the Impacts of Health Reform at the State Level: Using Federal Survey Data" identifies… Read More

Mar. 7, 2011: SHADAC and SHARE News March 7, 2011 Download a PDF of this file   Read More

Mar. 4, 2011: This brief identifies state-level information currently available from seven federal surveys to help states monitor the impact of health reform and to compare the impacts of reform across states.  The brief provides an overview of the health insurance coverage and the health care access, use… Read More

Mar. 3, 2011: March 9, 2011:  Section 1304 of the federal Affordable Care Act (ACA) defines a “small employer” as an employer with anywhere from one to 100 employees (although states may cap the number of employees at 50 until 2016).  The implication of this new definition is that… Read More

Mar. 2, 2011: Presentation by Joanna Turner, "New Estimates of Health Insurance Coverage from the American Community Survey: Increases in Uninsurance for Minnesota Children," describing the distribution of and trends in health insurance coverage for Minnesota and sub-state regions.  Presented at the 2011… Read More

Mar. 2, 2011: Presentation by Julie Sonier,  "Monitoring the Impacts of Health Reform at the State Level: Using Federal Survey Data," describing the federal data sources available to states from federal surveys to help states monitor the impact of health reform and to compare the impacts of… Read More

Mar. 2, 2011: Sharon Long presented "Tracking the Impacts of Health Reform:  Lessons from Massachusetts," describing how Massachusetts has collected and used data to inform health policy.  Presented at the 2011 Minnesota Health Services Research Conference, March 1, 2011 in St. Paul, MN.  … Read More

Mar. 2, 2011: Presentation by SHADAC research assistant Kerry Landry describes how  enrollees in the Minnesota Comprehensive Health Association (MNCH), the state's high risk pool, will be affected by coverage options in ACA and addressed a technique for estimating how many will qualify for Medicaid.… Read More

Mar. 2, 2011: Presentation by SHADAC research assistant Jessie Kemmick-Pintor, "Left out under Federal Health Reform: Undocumented immigrant adults excluded from ACA Medicaid Expansions," describing estimates of the number of people who will not be covered under the Affordable Care Act at the state… Read More

Mar. 1, 2011: Schousboe, J. T., Davison, M. L., Dowd, B., Thiede Call, K., Johnson, P., & Kane, R. L. 2011. "Predictors of Patients’ Perceived Need for Medication to Prevent Fracture." Medical care, 49(3), 273. Read More

Feb. 21, 2011: February 21, 2011: Staff from the Minnesota Population Center (MPC) presented to SHADAC last week about their work with family interrelationship variables, which are recoded variables that allow data users to identify relationships among spouses, parents, and children without requiring the use of… Read More