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Monitoring Health Access using the American Community Survey

Presentation by Kathleen Call, "Monitoring Health Access using the American Community Survey," at the National Research Council of the National Academies' Workshop on the Benefits (and Burdens) of the American Community Survey in Washington, DC on June 14, 2012. Read More

Increasing response rates in cell frames: Results from an incentive and voicemail experiment

Presentation by Kathleen Call, "Increasing response rates in cell frames: Results from an incentive and voicemail experiment," at the American Association for Public Opinion Research (AAPOR) Annual Conference, May 18, 2012.  Download a PDF version of the slides here.… Read More

State Variation in High Burden Spending for Health Care: Preliminary findings from new data in the Current Population Survey

Presentation by Lacey Hartman, "State Variation in High Burden Spending for Health Care: Preliminary findings from new data in the Current Population Survey," at the Population Association of America (PAA) Annual Conference on May 4, 2012, in San Francisco, CA. Download a PDF version… 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

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

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

Modeling Health Insurance Coverage Estimates for MN Counties

Presentation by SHADAC Research Assistant Peter Graven at the Minnesota Health Services Research Conference, held March 6, 2012 in St. Paul, MN. This presentation and associated paper describe a model developed by SHADAC researchers to predict lack of insurance coverage for Minnesota counties using… Read More

Increasing response rates in cell frames: Results from an incentive and voicemail experiment

Presentation by SHADAC Investigator Kathleen Call at the Minnesota Health Services Research Conference, held March 6, 2012 in St. Paul, MN.  This presentation describes the response rate experiment conducted as part of the 2011 Minnesota Health Access Survey.  The experiment involved the… Read More

Policy not Politics: A Dialogue About the Health Insurance Exchange

Presentation by SHADAC Director Lynn A. Blewett, Ph.D., "Health Insurance Exchange," presented at the Policy not Politics: A Dialogue about the Health Insurance Exchange hosted by Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Minnesota, the Minnesota Chamber of Commerce and the American Cancer Society. … Read More

Imputing the Legal Status of the Foreign Born Persons on Surveys: Two Approaches

Dean Judson of Decision Analytics and Sharon Long of SHADAC presented "Imputing the Legal Status of the Foreign Born Persons on Surveys: Two Approaches" at the 2012 Federal Committee on Statistical Methodology Research Conference, January 10, 2012 in Washington DC. This work addresses… Read More

Implementation of Improvements to the Allocation Routine for Health Insurance Coverage in the CPS ASEC

Joanna Turner presented "Implementation of Improvements to the Allocation Routine for Health Insurance Coverage in the CPS ASEC" at the 2012 Federal Committee on Statistical Methodology Research Conference, January 10, 2012 in Washington DC. This presentation describes the Census Bureau… Read More

Webinar: FMAP and Income Conversion Methodology Study

In this webinar, experts from CMS, RAND, and SHADAC discuss the Federal Medical Assistance Percentages (FMAP) claiming and Modified Adjusted Gross Income (MAGI) income conversion methodologies that states will need to implement under the Affordable Care Act.  These methodologies will be needed… Read More

2011 ACS/CPS State Health Insurance Estimates Webinar

This page provides an archive of SHADAC's September 23, 2011 webinar to discuss the 2010 health insurance coverage estimates from the American Community Survey (ACS) and Current Population Survey (CPS). This webinar featured experts from SHADAC and the U.S. Census Bureau who reviewed the… Read More

Using Macros to Compute US Health Insurance Coverage Estimates for Insertion into a Web-based Table Generator

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

Key Lessons Learned from the SHAP Program - Data and Evaluation

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

Health Reform and Provider Capacity

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