Medicaid
McAlpine, D., Beebe, T. J., Davern, M. E., & Call, K. T. 2007. “Agreement between Self-Reported and Administrative Race and Ethnicity Data among Medicaid Enrollees in Minnesota.” Health Services Research 42(6, part II): 2373-2388.
OBJECTIVE: This paper measures agreement between survey and… Read more
Blewett, L. A. and M. Davern. 2007. “Distributing State Children’s Health Insurance Funds: A Critical Review of the Design and Implementation of the Funding Formula. Journal of Health Politics, Policy and Law 32(3):415-55.
The development of formulas to distribute federal funds to states based on… Read more
Davern, M., K. T. Call, J. Ziegenfuss, G. Davidson, T. Beebe, and L. A. Blewett. 2008. "Validating Health Insurance Coverage Survey Estimates: A Comparison between Self-Reported Coverage and Administrative Data Records." Public Opinion Quarterly 72(2): 241-259.
We administered a health insurance… Read more
Call, K. T., G. Davidson, M. Davern, L. A. Blewett, and R. Nyman. 2008. “The Medicaid Undercount and Bias to Estimates of Uninsurance: New Estimates and Existing Evidence.” Health Services Research 43(3): 901-14.
OBJECTIVE: To examine whether known Medicaid enrollees misreport their health… Read more
This Executive Summary highlights key findings of SHADAC's research studying the impact of using state level data inputs on the number of low income uninsured children from the Current Population Survey (CPS) to determine the distribution of federal dollars to the states. February 2007.
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This report presents findings from a statewide survey of 4,902 Minnesota Health Care Program (MHCP) enrollees designed to assess racial and ethnic disparities in the use of preventive and other health services, as well as barriers that discourage the use of those services. December 2003.
This report was released for the 2008 Cover the Uninsured Campaign, a project of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation to highlight the fact that too many Americans are living without health insurance and to demand solutions from our nation's leaders. The report includes a state-by-state analysis on… Read more
Survey estimates of public health insurance program enrollment tend to be lower than those compiled from administrative enrollment data for those same programs, a discordance which is particularly apparent for Medicaid. The crude Medicaid undercount in the Current Population Survey’s Annual Social… Read more
This report was released for the 2006 Covering Kids & Families Back-to-School Campaign, a national effort to enroll eligible children in public coverage programs during the back-to-school season. This initiative is sponsored by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. The research in… Read more
Call, K.T., G. Davidson, M. Davern, L. Blewett, and R. Nyman. "The Medicaid Undercount and Bias to Estimates of Uninsurance: New Estimates and Existing Evidence." Health Services Research 43(3): 901-14.