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Utah Launches Nation’s Second State Health Insurance Exchange

August 26, 2009.  Utah joined Massachusetts last week to become the second state to offer a health insurance exchange.  The Utah Health Exchange is an internet portal where residents can find, compare, and purchase private individual and family health insurance coverage.  The website also provides… Read More

SNACC Phase IV Report

Report for Phase IV of the Medicaid Undercount Project (SNACC).  This phase involved re-using the Phase II process, replacing the CPS data with NHIS data. In addition to providing explanations for discrepancies between the national NHIS and MSIS, comparisons to Phase II results allowed… Read More

SNACC Phase III Report

Report for Phase III of the Medicaid Undercount Project (SNACC).  In this phase data from the state MSIS files, CPS, 2001 Supplemental Survey (SS01), as well as the MAX and Census Bureau Master Address File (MAF) were used. The Census Bureau worked with CMS to negotiate the acquisition of… Read More

SNACC Phase II Report

Report for Phase II of the Medicaid Undercount Project (SNACC). In this phase data were merged from the Medicaid Analytic Extract (MAX), MSIS, the Current Population Survey (CPS), the Person Characteristic File (PCF), and the Master Address File Auxiliary Reference File (MAFARF). Once matches/non-… Read More

SNACC Phase I Report

Report for Phase I of the Medicaid Undercount Project (SNACC).  This phase involved creating a national database of health-insurance enrollment and evaluate the quality of the information it contains. This was done by merging the CMS Medicaid Statistical Information System (MSIS) files with… Read More

Lynn Blewett, Jean Abraham Testify before Minnesota Senate Finance Sub-Committee

August 19, 2009. From the desk of SHARE Director Lynn Blewett: Yesterday I had the opportunity to testify before the Senate Finance Committee's Health and Human Services Budget Division at the State Capitol.  Senator Linda Berglin, who chairs the committee, invited me and my colleague, Jean Abraham… Read More

Lynn Blewett, Jean Abraham Present to Minnesota Senate Health and Human Services Budget Division

August 18, 2009. Today Lynn Blewett gave a presentation to the Minnesota Senate Health and Human Services Budget Division titled, "Update on National Reform: A Moving Target." Click here to view the presentation.   Jean Abraham of the University of Minnesota also presented, "Tackling the… Read More

Tackling the Tough Topics: The public plan option, employer pay or play, and paying for health care reform

Presentation by Jean Abraham of the University of Minnesota to the Minnesota Senate Health and Human Services Budget Division in St. Paul, MN, August 18 2009. | View Read More

Update on National Health Reform: A Moving Target

Presentation by Lynn Blewett to the Minnesota Senate Health and Human Services Budget Division in St. Paul, MN, August 18 2009. | View Read More

Highlights from SHADAC's NHIS State-Level Health Insurance Estimates Conference Call

On July 27, 2009, the State Health Access Data Assistance Center (SHADAC) hosted a conference call featuring Robin Cohen, PhD, senior statistician in the Division of Health Interview Statistics at the National Center for Health Statistics. Dr. Cohen discussed early release findings from the 2008… Read More

Oregon Governor Signs Bill Expanding Coverage for Children

August 5, 2009: Oregon Governor Ted Kulongoski signed the “Healthy Kids” bill yesterday, expanding insurance coverage for the state’s children. Through a 1% assessment on insurers and a 2.8% assessment on large hospitals, the legislation will extend coverage to an estimated 80,… Read More

SHARE Findings Presented at SCI’s Annual Meeting

August 5, 2009.  State Coverage Initiatives (SCI) hosted its annual meeting for state officials last week in Albuquerque, NM.  The purpose of the meeting was to inform state officials about health reform efforts in other states and about the potential impact of federal reforms on state activities… Read More

Evaluating Small Group Employer Participation in New Mexico’s State Coverage Insurance Program

Presentation by Asher Mikow of The Hilltop Institute at the 2009 State Coverage Initiatives (SCI) Annual Meeting in Albuquerque, NM, July 31 2009. | View Read More

SHADAC News, August 2009

SHADAC News, August 2009       Read More

State Health Access Reform Evaluation: Building the Evidence for Reform

Presentation by Elizabeth Lukanen at the 2009 State Coverage Initiatives (SCI) Annual Meeting in Albuquerque, NM, July 31 2009. | View Read More

Small Area Health Insurance Estimates Released

August 3, 2009. The U.S. Census Bureau released an update to their model-based Small Area Health Insurance Estimates (SAHIE) today. The 2006 SAHIE is a three-year average of health insurance coverage for 2005, 2006, and 2007, based on Current Population Survey Annual Social and Economic… Read More

Using Linked Survey & Admin. Records Studies to Partially Correct Survey Program Part. for Timely Policy Research Purposes

Presentation by Michael Davern at the 2009 Joint Statistical Meetings, Washington, DC, August 2 2009. For more information on this topic, see SHADAC's technical report, "Medicaid Under-reporting in the CPS and One Approach for a Partial Correction," which describes parameters from two logistic… Read More

Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Health Care Consumer Confidence Index - Results for June 2009

This report provides results for the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Health Care Consumer Confidence Index (RWJF Index) for June 2009. The RWJF index is a monthly snapshot of how adults in the United States perceive their financial access to health care. Read More

SHADAC releases two issue briefs on race, ethnicity and immigration measured in federal surveys

July 23, 2009.  SHADAC has released two issue briefs as a resource for those who are conducting surveys or using federal survey data for policy development. These briefs are intended to assist state and federal analysts with survey development and/or analysis of existing survey data to estimate… Read More

Data Availability for Race, Ethnicity, and Immigrant Groups in Federal Surveys

SHADAC Issue Brief #17 focuses on the availability of public use data from selected federal surveys that collect information on health insurance coverage and access to care for race, ethnicity and immigrant group (REI) identifiers.  Publicly available data for populations defined by REI… Read More