This fact sheet provides a summary of estimates of health insurance coverage gathered from the 2009 Virgin Islands Health Insurance Survey. February 2010.

Presentation by Elizabeth Lukanen at the 2010 Annual Directors Meeting of REM Minnesota in Bloomington, MN, January 27, 2010. 

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Boudreaux M, Ziegenfuss JY, Graven P, Davern M, Blewett LA. 2010. "Counting Uninsurance and Means-Tested Coverage in the American Community Survey: A Comparison to the Current Population Survey." Health Services Research 2010 Oct 28. doi: 10.1111/j.1475-6773.2010.01193.x. [Epub ahead of print]

Presentation by Lynn Blewett at the SHAP Grantee Meeting, Arlington, VA, Jan 14 2010.

Two reports were produced for the Second Phase of the HIFA Evaluation Study, Medicare/Medicaid Research and Demonstration Task Order Contract (MRAD/TOC) HHSM-500-2005-00027I, T.O. 2

These reports are not available for download at this time, but are available upon request to Dr. Kathleen Call, callx001@umn.edu or 612-624-4802.

The reports are described below:

"Second Phase of the HIFA Evaluation Study: Final Report on the Two-State Enrollee Survey," January 2010.
This report describes the results of analyses of the enrollee survey for the evaluation of the Health Insurance Flexibility and Accountability (HIFA) demonstration programs. 

The purpose of this Task Order is to evaluate the statistical significance and strength of the relationship between the HIFA initiative and the number and rate of uninsured for health care in states that implement HIFA waivers.  The Base Contract for this evaluation relied on analysis of secondary data, using data from the Current Population Survey (CPS) and Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System (BRFSS).  However, several key policy questions could not be answered without interviewing those actually enrolled in a HIFA program.  While the CPS and BRFSS data did allow us to reasonably identify people who fit the eligibility criteria for HIFA initiatives, those data do not identify actual enrollment in a HIFA program.  Hence, the need to identify such people through state enrollment files and gather information specifically on these enrollees.


"Second Phase of the HIFA Evaluation Study:  Supplementary Report on the Two-State Enrollee Survey, " April 2010
This report describes the results of supplementary analyses of the enrollee survey for the evaluation of the Health Insurance Flexibility and Accountability (HIFA) demonstration programs.

The purpose of the Task Order under which the survey was done is to evaluate the statistical significance and strength of the relationship between the HIFA initiative and the number and rate of uninsured for health care in states that implement HIFA waivers.  The Base Contract for this evaluation relied on analysis of secondary data.  However, several key policy questions could not be answered without interviewing those actually enrolled in a HIFA program, since the secondary data only allowed us to identify people who fit the eligibility criteria for HIFA initiatives, but not to identify people actually enrolled in a HIFA program.  Hence, the need for a survey to identify such people through state enrollment files and gather information specifically on these enrollees.