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Evaluability Assessment of Discharge Planning and the Prevention of Homelessness
Prepared by: Garrett Moran, Rafael Semansky, Elizabeth Quinn, Rebecca Noftsinger, and Teresa Koenig Westat Executive Summary (in PDF Format)
Evaluability Assessment of Discharge Planning and the Prevention of Homelessness
Contents Introduction Key Research Questions Methods Key Findings Key Study Design and Measurement Issues Alternative Research Designs Introduction The purpose of this study was to determine the evaluability of discharge planning as a strategy to prevent homelessness.
The Impact of Disability Trends on Medicare Spending
U.S. Department of Health and Human Services The Impact of Disability Trends on Medicare Spending Brenda C. Spillman The Urban Institute September 2, 2005 PDF Version: http://aspe.hhs.gov/daltcp/reports/distrnd.pdf (60 PDF pages)
The Impact of Disability Trends on Medicare Spending
The purpose of this study is to better understand the relationship between disability declines and Medicare costs and what Medicare spending patterns may suggest about the relationship between disability and health. To that end, the study examines actual patterns of Medicare spending and utilization that occurred over the period of declining disability between 1984 and 1999 and how they differ…
Assistive Device Use Among the Elderly: Trends, Characteristics of Users, and Implications for Modeling
This study adds to understanding by updating information on trends in use of disability equipment and exploring how disability and other characteristics differ for equipment users and nonusers. Data are from the 1984-1999 rounds of the National Long Term Care Survey, which has been a key source of earlier information on trends in equipment use. The authors examine several trends in the use of…
Assistive Device Use Among the Elderly: Trends, Characteristics of Users, and Implications for Modeling
U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
Assistive Device Use Among the Elderly: Trends, Characteristics of Users, and Implications for Modeling
U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Assistive Device Use Among the Elderly: Trends, Characteristics of Users, and Implications for Modeling Brenda C. Spillman The Urban Institute September 2, 2005 PDF Version: http://aspe.hhs.gov/daltcp/reports/astdev.pdf (54 PDF pages)
Medicaid Estate Recovery Collections
This policy brief is one of six commissioned by HHS/ASPE on Medicaid eligibility policies for long-term care benefits. This brief summarizes the estate recovery mandate, discusses variations in mechanisms employed by states to implement the mandate, and presents a state-by-state analysis of collections from 2002 through 2004. [13 PDF pages]
Issues in the Design and Implementation of Drug Formularies and Therapeutic Classes
Presented by: National Opinion Research Center (NORC) at The University of Chicago Submitted to: Steve Sheingold Office of the Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation (ASPE) U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
Developing A Risk Adjustment Methodology for Medicare Drug Plans
This paper describes the work NORC did to supplement the Federal Employee Health Benefits data (FEHBP) used to develop drug risk adjustment factors for over 65 individuals with a full drug supplement to Medicare. This data needed to be supplemented because the FEHBP data did not adequately represent, low-income, disabled, or non east Coast populations. After linking Medicaid data to Medicare…
Issues in the Design and Implementation of Drug Formularies and Therapeutic Classes
As part of the Medicare Part D pharmacy benefit scheduled for implementation in 2006 by the Medicare Prescription Drug, Improvement, and Modernization Act (MMA), beneficiaries will have a choice of private plans administering the benefit.? Although plans are required to provide access to needed drugs, the law does not require plans to provide equal coverage for all drugs.? Instead, it is expected…
Research Brief
Public Assistance Use Among Two-Parent Families: An Analysis of TANF and Food Stamp Program Eligibility and Participation - Research Brief
States increasingly are focusing on the TANF goals relating to promoting and supporting healthy marriage. To understand how state policies may affect marriage, it is useful to first examine the extent to which existing public assistance programs provide benefits to both married-parent and single-parent families. Specifically, this recent study by Mathematica Policy Research examines patterns of…
Assessment of the Uses and Users of Healthier US and Healthy People 2010
Prepared by: National Opinion Research Center (NORC) at the University of Chicago 1350 Connecticut Avenue, N.W., Suite 500 Washington, D.C. 20036 (202) 223-6040 Prepared for: Office of the Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation (ASPE)U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS)
Rural Research Needs and Data Sources for Selected Human Services Topics
Contents The Rural Context Review of Existing Research on the Three Focal Topics Data Sources Available to Conduct Research on the Focal Topics Implications of Study Findings Enhancing Rural Human Services Information The U.S.
Report to Congress
Indicators of Welfare Dependence: Annual Report to Congress, 2005
The Welfare Indicators Act of 1994 requires the Department of Health and Human Services to prepare annual reports to Congress on indicators and predictors of welfare dependence. The 2005 Indicators of Welfare Dependence, the eighth annual report, provides welfare dependence indicators through 2002, reflecting changes that have taken place since enactment of the Personal Responsibility and Work…