Michel Boudreaux presented, "Investigating the 'Welcome Mat' Effect: How Will the ACA Affect Medicaid Participation Among Previously Eligible But Not Enrolled Populations?" at AcademyHealth's Annual Research Meeting in Baltimore on June 24, 2013.
 

SHARE & State Network Breakfast at 2013 AcademyHealth ARM
June 24, 2013, in Baltimore, MD
7:00 a.m. - 8:00 a.m.
Baltimore Convention Center, Room 326

AGENDA

The annual SHARE & State Netowrk Breakfast promotes the meaningful exchange of ideas between researchers and state officials involved in the two programs: Findings from SHARE-funded research can translate into practical technical assistance for State Network, and on-the-ground lessons from State Network can inform SHARE’s research agenda to ensure its usefulness for states.  More broadly, the breakfast provides a networking opportunity for SHARE staff, grantees, and state stakeholders, and facilitates the dissemination of SHARE findings to a wider audience.

Description

State Medicaid programs are preparing to absorb a projected 16 million new enrollees in 2014, most of whom are low-income childless adults about whose health care needs relatively little is known.  Without information on prior medical history for the expansion population, states are unable to design and implement innovative and effective benefit design targeting this group.

Given these circumstances, self-reported health measures collected at the time of enrollment are likely to be the only practical means of gathering data for programmatic use.  Dr. Lindsey Leininger, Assistant Professor of Health Policy and Administration at the University of Illinois at Chicago, is leading a SHARE-funded project to assess Wisconsin’s pioneering use of this strategy to inform program design for childless adults enrolling in its Medicaid program, which was expanded via waiver to cover this population in 2009.

In this webinar, Dr. Leininger presents findings from this analysis of Wisconsin's experience.  She augments these findings with a nationally representative analysis of a sample of childless adults drawn from the Medical Expenditure Panel Survey (MEPS).  Dr. Leininger’s Wisconsin analysis provides evidence gathered “in the field,” and the MEPS analysis provides both a nationwide benchmark and an assessment of the predictive capacity of a wide range of self-reported health measures—including but not limited to those used by Wisconsin.

Presentation by Michel Boudreaux at the 2013 State Health Research and Policy Interest Group meeting, on June 22, 2013, in Baltimore, MD.

Presentation by Michel Boudreaux at the 2013 State Health Research and Policy Interest Group meeting, on June 22, 2013, in Baltimore, MD.