State and Federal Health Policy
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SHADAC produced this case study for the Medicaid and CHIP Payment and Access Commission (MACPAC) as part of a contract to examine Medicaid eligibility, enrollment, and renewal practices in six states in light of the Affordable Care Act… Read more
Presentation by SHADAC Senior Research Fellow Emily Zylla at the 2018 Association for Public Policy Analysis & Management (APPAM) Fall Research Meeting in Washington, DC.
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Presentation by SHADAC Director Lynn Blewett at the 2018 Association for Public Policy Analysis and Management (APPAM) Fall Research Conference in Washington, DC.
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On August 24th, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid (CMS) released a Final Administrative Order that would revise and recalculate their payments toward Basic Health Programs (BHPs). Only two states have established BHPs—Minnesota and New… Read more
Date: September 5, 2018Time: 12:00 p.m. - 1:00 p.m. CentralWatch a recording of the event below, or download a PDF of the presentation slides and the event transcript.Between 2000 and 2016, the annual number of drug overdose deaths in the United States more than tripled, from 17,500 to 63… Read more
SHADAC presentation materials from the 2018 AcademyHealth Annual Research Meeting (ARM) are now available. Click on the presentation titles below to view and download the materials.
“The Intersection of Structural Risk Factors and Insurance-Based Discrimination on Healthcare Access Inequities”… Read more
SHADAC has updated eight measures in State Health Compare. The updated measures include:
Unemployment Rate
This measure is now available for all states from 2000 through 2017.
Smoke-Free Campuses
The measure is an indication of whether a state has enacted laws to ensure smoke-free campuses and… Read more
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The 2018 Conference of the American Society of Health Conomists (ASHEcon) will take place from June 10th to June 13th at Emory University in Atlanta, with this year's theme being "Economics and Public Health."
An ASHEcon panel featuring… Read more
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The American Journal of Public Health (AJPH) has just released a SHADAC-authored article, “Affordable Care Act in Kentucky: Increasing Access, Reducing Disparities.” The piece was co-authored by SHADAC Director Lynn A. Blewett along with SHADAC… Read more
The American Journal of Public Health (AJPH) has just released a SHADAC-authored article, “Affordable Care Act in Kentucky: Increasing Access, Reducing Disparities.” The piece was co-authored by SHADAC Director Lynn A. Blewett along with SHADAC researchers Colin Planalp and Giovann Alarcón. The… Read more