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Explore Physician Acceptance of New Medicaid Patients through Two New Measures on SHADAC’s State Health Compare and in a New MACPAC Factsheet
Authors: Robert Hest and Julia Ngep In order for the more than 80 million Medicaid beneficiaries to access needed care in a timely manner, there must be a sufficient number of health care providers to serve these patients. There has long been concern that providers are less likely to accept… Read more
Minnesota Medicaid Enrollment Grew More than the U.S. Average during COVID-19
The Minnesota Medicaid program has served as an important safety net program during the COVID-19 crisis. As a countercyclical program, Medicaid enrollment/spending increases when the economy is in decline (such as during a pandemic or a recession), as employer-sponsored insurance decreases and the… Read more
New State Health Compare Measure: Medicaid Expenses as a Percent of State Budgets
Image Medicaid provides public health coverage to millions of low-income individuals and families and serves as an important safety net program for those in need. Medicaid also serves an important role for low-income elderly and the disabled by… Read more
Addressing Persistent Medicaid Enrollment and Renewal Challenges as Rolls Increase
Growth in Medicaid enrollment is expected to accelerate as a result of both the COVID-19 pandemic and the associated economic downturn. An analysis by the Kaiser Family Foundation (KFF), for example, shows that by January 2021, nearly 17 million people could be newly eligible for Medicaid.i In… Read more
2018 State-level Estimates of Medical Out-of-Pocket Spending for Individuals with Employer-sponsored Insurance Coverage
Image U.S. health care spending continues to grow, reaching $3.6 trillion and 17.7% of the GDP in 2018.[i]  Unfortunately, a significant share of these costs are increasingly born by Americans in the form of increased deductibles, copayment… Read more
Medicaid and CHIP Policy
Medicaid and CHIP Policy SHADAC has worked both independently and under contract to the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF) and the Medicaid and CHIP Payment Access Commission (MACPAC) to monitor and analyze changes in the Medicaid and CHIP policy landscape such as Medicaid expansion, eligibility… Read more
Evaluations of Integrated Care Models for Dually Eligible Beneficiaries: Key Findings and Research Gaps from MACPAC
Under contract to the Medicaid and CHIP Payment and Access Commission (MACPAC), researchers at SHADAC recently compiled an inventory of evaluations of integrated care models for beneficiaries enrolled in both Medicare and Medicaid, for which both the inventory itself and a related issue brief have… Read more
Mental Health and Substance Use Disorder Parity under the ACA: National and State Estimates of Parity Gains as of 2017
Image In addition to expanding access to health insurance coverage for millions of Americans through subsidized individual market coverage and state Medicaid expansions, the federal Affordable Care Act (ACA) applied Mental Health (MH) and Substance… Read more
The Comparing Health Insurance Measurement Error (CHIME) Study: Sample and Design
The aim of this report is to describe the CHIME study design and sampling strategy and to report matching and response rates. Image About the CHIME Study Because there is no comprehensive administrative record of health insurance coverage… Read more
Minnesota LTSS Projection Model: MN-LPM
  Presentation by Lynn Blewett at the 2018 NASHP Annual Conference. August 17, 2018 in Jacksonville, FL.  View PDF of the presentation.
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