Presentation by Stan Dorn to Maryland's Health Care Reform Coordinating Council at August 31, 2010, "Entry to Coverage" workshop.  Mr. Dorn cites lessons learned from enrollment initiatives in Massachusetts and Louisiana, including the importance of prioritizing affordability and reducing administrative requirements for enrollment.

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Johnson PJ, Blewett LA, Davern M. 2010. "Disparities in Public Use Data Availability for Race, Ethnic, and Immigrant Groups: National Surveys for Healthcare Disparities Research."  Medical Care 48(12):1122-1127.

Maryland’s Health Care Reform Coordinating Council (HCRCC) has developed a financial modeling tool for use in estimating the fiscal impact of federal health reform. The tool aims to identify how health reform will change the state’s budget by comparing costs, savings and revenues related to reform with what would be expected in the absence of reform. To react to evolving provisions of federal health reform, the financial modeling tool has the ability to change and be updated as projections are replaced with actual data. Similarly, as decisions are made, the tool can accommodate an ever-changing environment and adjust to generate useful long-term fiscal estimates. More information on this topic is available in this brief. November 2010.

State Data Spotlight is a SHADAC series highlighting states’ unique data tools, datasets, and uses of existing data systems. The series aims to provide information and insight on innovations that can be applied in other states. 

This brief addresses some of the issues that states will need to consider in making decisions about the health insurance exchanges that are a central part of the health insurance coverage strategy in the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA) enacted in March of 2010. Specifically, it discusses the issues that states will face in making decisions about how to structure health insurance exchanges and health insurance markets.  The brief is a collaboration between SHADAC and State Coverage Initiatives.  November 2010.

Presentation by Sharon Long, "Taking Stock:  Assessing Access to Care for Non-elderly Adults on Medicaid," at the Medicaid and CHIP Payment and Access Commission (MACPAC) meeting held October 28 in Washington DC.  MACPAC was established as part of the Children’s Health Insurance Program Reauthorization Act of 2009 to review Medicaid and CHIP access and payment policies and to advise Congress on issues affecting Medicaid and CHIP.

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