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Mar. 12, 2009: March 12, 2009. Most of us who work in the health survey field have been aware of the increasing number of households that rely on cell phones and do not have traditional landline phones, with the latest estimates showing over 17% of U.S. households as wireless-only. This creates challenges for… Read More

Mar. 11, 2009: SHADAC's Issue Brief #15 examines the increasing prevalence of cell phone coverage in the U.S., and the consequent increase in the number of people who use their cell phone in place of a landline.  The wireless-only trend makes it difficult to reach target populations and may eventually… Read More

Mar. 10, 2009: This report is one out of a series of five reports prepared for the Idaho Legislature, Office of Performance Evaluations (OPE) and Idaho Health Care Task Force as part of the project, "Idaho’s Health Care Costs and Options to Improve Health Care Access." This report is on Task 5, a study of the… Read More

Mar. 10, 2009: This report is one out of a series of five reports prepared for the Idaho Office of Performance Evaluations (OPE), the Joint Legislative Oversight Committee, and the Idaho Health Care Task Force as part of the project, "Idaho’s Health Care Costs and Options to Improve Health Care Access." This… Read More

Mar. 6, 2009: The largest portion of the Medicaid undercount is caused by survey reporting error; that is, Medicaid recipients misreport their enrollment in health insurance coverage surveys. In this study, we sampled known Medicaid enrollees to learn how they respond to health insurance questions and to… Read More

Mar. 3, 2009: March 3, 2009: Principal Investigator Michael Cousineau, Co-Principal Investigator Gregory Stevens and Project Manager Albert Farias released early findings from their SHARE project, “Evaluating the impact of outreach and enrollment strategies in California.” Their issue brief, “Use of Outreach and… Read More

Feb. 26, 2009: Principal Investigator: David Idala, MA, Maryland Department of Health and Mental HygieneThis study will analyze Maryland’s use of income tax records to identify un-enrolled Medicaid eligible children. The research will evaluate the logic behind the collection and use of this data, implementation… Read More

Feb. 17, 2009: February 17, 2009. As a member of the Division of Health Policy and Management in the University of Minnesota’s School of Public Health, I was asked to testify on February 10 to a joint Minnesota House committee hearing of the Health Care and Human Services Policy Committee and the Finance… Read More

Feb. 17, 2009: Presentation by Lynn Blewett to the Minnesota State Legislature at a joint meeting of the health care and human services finance and policy committees in Saint Paul, MN, February 10 2009. | View | Upload your own Read More

Feb. 10, 2009: February 10, 2009. SHARE Grantees Lisa Dubay and Jenny Kenney were on hand for the signing of the SCHIP bill on Wednesday February 4. "This legislation is important because it lays the groundwork for improving the health and wellbeing of our nation's children by increasing their access to… Read More

Feb. 9, 2009: February 9, 2009. Pennsylvania was the most recent state to release results from its own state household survey. Despite valuable information on health insurance coverage that is released every year as part of the Census Bureau’s Current Population Survey (CPS), many states still find it… Read More

Feb. 3, 2009: February 3, 2009.  The University of Minnesota’s State Health Access Data Assistance Center (SHADAC) and Minnesota Population Center (MPC) recently received approval from the National Science Foundation (NSF) and United States Census Bureau to open the Minnesota Research Data Center (MNRDC) in… Read More

Feb. 2, 2009: February 2, 2009. I was in Topeka, Kansas on January 23 to present our new state-level estimates of "underinsurance." I was invited by Gina Maree, Director of Health Care Finance and Organization of the Kansas Health institute (KHI), to be the keynote speaker for a day-long convening on the… Read More

Jan. 30, 2009: Presentation by Kathleen Thiede Call at the 2009 SHADAC State Survey Workshop in Washington, DC, January 13 2009. | View | Upload your own Read More

Jan. 30, 2009: Presentation by Kathleen Thiede Call at the 2009 SHADAC State Survey Workshop in Washington, DC, January 13 2009. | View | Upload your own Read More

Jan. 29, 2009: Presentation by Michael Davern at the 2009 SHADAC State Survey Workshop in Washington, DC, January 13 2009. | View | Upload your own Read More

Jan. 26, 2009: January 26, 2009. On Tuesday, January 13th SHADAC hosted a meeting in DC on, "Current Issues in Survey Methods for State Health Surveys" The two key topics for the day were: (1) the increasing use of cell phones and the barriers they create when conducting Random Digit Dial (RDD) telephone… Read More

Jan. 23, 2009: Presentation by Lynn Blewett, titled "Insurance, Uninsurance, Underinsurance," to the Kansas Health Institute, January 23, 2009, in Topeka, Kansas.   Read More

Jan. 21, 2009: January 21, 2009. SHARE grantee Joel Cantor was quoted in the New York Times about the effectiveness of laws that allow young adults to be claimed as dependents on their parents’ health insurance plans. "We’ve reviewed the laws and regulations from all 25 states," said Cantor, the director of the… Read More

Jan. 16, 2009: This brief by Bonnie J. Austin, published by the Changes in Health Care Financing & Organization (HCFO) program of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, summarizes SHADAC's study of the Medicaid undercount in Minnesota, California, Florida, and Pennsylvania. The brief outlines key findings and… Read More