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UPDATE State Health Insurance Program Names: 2023

This Excel file includes the names of state-sponsored health insurance programs for all 50 states and the District of Columbia. It documents program names familiar to enrollees; therefore it includes colloquial as well as official names. The document has… Read More

Categorization of Health Insurance Coverage Type from Survey Questions after Health Reform: The Case of the Current Population Survey

This article, coauthored by SHADAC Investigator Kathleen Call alongside colleagues from the Humphrey School of Public Affairs Angela Fertig and U.S. Census Bureau Joanne Pascale, used administrative records linked with survey data to explore how to categorize private marketplace coverage versus… Read More

Using Enrollment Records to Evaluate Self-Reports of Monthly Coverage in the Redesigned Current Population Survey Health Insurance Module

This journal article was originally published on January 23, 2024, in Health Services Research.Introduction Image This article, authored by SHADAC Investigator Dr. Kathleen T. Call alongside colleagues from the U.S. Census Bureau Angela R.… Read More

SHADAC in JHPPL: The Future of State All-Payer Claims Databases

This journal article was originally published in Volume 48, Issue 1 of the Journal of Health Politics, Policy and Law (JHPPL).   Authors: Lynn A. Blewett, PhD, MPA, Natalie Schwehr Mac Arthur, PhD, MAc, and James Campbell SHADAC researchers recently published an article in the… Read More

SHADAC Researchers Co-Author Maternal and Child Health Journal Article on Medical Home Contributions to Child Health Outcomes

Image SHADAC researchers Natalie Mac Arthur and Lynn Blewett recently published a journal article in Maternal and Child Health Journal that examines the medical home model—a widely accepted model of team-based primary care—and its unique contributions… Read More

SHADAC in AJPH: Insurance-Based Discrimination Reports and Access to Care Among Non-Elderly U.S. Adults, 2011-2019

This journal article was originally published in the American Journal of Public Health (AJPH). Authors: Kathleen Thiede Call, PhD, Giovann Alarcon-Espinoza, PhD, MPP, Natalie Schwer Mac Arthur, PhD, MAc, and Rhonda Jones-Webb, DrPH Image SHADAC… Read More

Impacts of the Affordable Care Act Medicaid Expansion in California (CJPP)

This Journal article was originally published in the California Journal of Politics and Policy. Introduction Image A cornerstone aim of the Affordable Care Act (ACA) was to make health insurance coverage readily available to more people in the… Read More

Factors associated with accurate reporting of public and private health insurance type (HSR)

This Journal article was originally published on August 26, 2021, in Health Services Research. Introduction Image This article authored by SHADAC Investigator Dr. Kathleen T. Call, and colleagues from the U.S. Census Bureau Angela R. Fertig and… Read More

SHADAC Article in Journal of Aging & Social Policy Urges States to Use COVID-19 Flexible Medicaid Authority for LTSS Eligibility

Image In response to the current public health emergency presented by COVID-19, especially the health risks pertaining to low-income older adults and disabled persons, states have been given new authority with regard to Medicaid in order to ease… Read More

Medicaid expansion and the Medicaid undercount in the American Community Survey (Health Services Research Article)

Image Researchers at SHADAC have long been interested in the issue of “Medicaid undercount,” or the discrepancies that exist between survey estimates of enrollment in Medicaid and the number of enrollees that are actually reported in state and… Read More

Assessing the Accuracy of Survey Reports of Health Insurance Coverage Using Enrollment Data

Image U.S. Census Bureau researcher Joanne Pascale, University of Minnesota researcher Angela Fertig, and SHADAC researcher Kathleen T. Call recently published a new article in the Health Services Research journal that details their efforts… Read More

Validation of Two Federal Health Insurance Survey Modules After Affordable Care Act Implementation

Image Surveys are the only source of data on the uninsured rate in the United States. The idea for a certain amount of federal monitoring of insurance status through standardized Internal Revenue Service (IRS) forms was included with the… Read More

SHADAC in INQUIRY: Estimating National and State-Level Costs of a Reinsurance Program to Stabilize the Individual Health Insurance Market

Image Reinsurance, an insurance product designed to protect health insurers against the financial risk of covering high-cost enrollees, has attracted bipartisan policy interest as a mechanism to stabilize individual health insurance markets. Three… Read More

SHADAC Research in AJPH: Addressing Opioid Addiction through Cross-Sector Collaboration

Image After implementing a cross-sector collaboration between medical providers, nonmedical service providers, and a wide range of other stakeholders in the community, the town of Little Falls, Minnesota, saw a reduction in opioid use and abuse among… Read More

Affordable Care Act Impact in Kentucky: Increasing Access, Reducing Disparities

Image The American Journal of Public Health (AJPH) has just released a SHADAC-authored article, “Affordable Care Act in Kentucky: Increasing Access, Reducing Disparities.” The piece was co-authored by SHADAC Director Lynn A. Blewett along with SHADAC… Read More

SHADAC Research in American Journal of Public Health: ACA Led to Increased Health Insurance Access, Reduced Disparities in Kentucky

The American Journal of Public Health (AJPH) has just released a SHADAC-authored article, “Affordable Care Act in Kentucky: Increasing Access, Reducing Disparities.” The piece was co-authored by SHADAC Director Lynn A. Blewett along with SHADAC researchers Colin Planalp and Giovann Alarcón. The… Read More

Recent Changes in Health Insurance Coverage for Urban and Rural Veterans: Evidence from the First Year of the Affordable Care Act

Image Boudreaux M, Barath D, & Blewett LA. (2018). "Recent Changes in Health Insurance Coverage for Urban and Rural Veterans: Evidence from the First Year of the Affordable Care Act." Military Medicine 00. doi: 10.1093/milmed/usy053… Read More

Health Care Coverage and Access Among Children, Adolescents, and Young Adults, 2010-2016: Implications for Future Health Reforms

Image Spencer, DL, McManus, M, Call, KT, Turner, J, Harwood, C., White P, & Alarcon, G. (2018). "Health Care Coverage and Access Among children, Adolescents, and Young Adults, 2010-2016: Implications for Future Health Reforms." Journal of… Read More

Integrating Community Health Workers into Medical Homes

Image Rogers, EA, Manser, ST, Cleary J, Joseph AM, Harwood EM, & Call KT. (2018). "Integrating Community Health Workers Into Medical Homes." Annals of Family Medicine 16(1): 13-20. doi: 10.1370/afm.2171 This article details a qualitative… Read More

Data Resources for Conducting Health Services and Policy Research

  Image Blewett, LA, Call, KT, Turner J, & Hest, R. (2017). "Data Resources for Conducting Health Services and Policy Research." Annual Review of Public Health 39: 437-452. doi: 10.1146/annurev-publhealth-040617-013544  This… Read More