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State Estimates of Uninsured Children, January 1998. Final Report.
By: Allen L. Schirm John L. Czajka May 17, 2000 Submitted to:Department of Health and Human ServicesAssistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation HHH Building, Room 442E 200 Independence Ave., SW Washington, DC 20202 Project Officer: Robert Stewart Sarah Goodell
Minutes of the Technical Assistance Workshop, May 3-5, 2000
This technical assistance workshop was the third in a series of technical assistance workshops hosted by the Chapin Hall Center for Children for participating states in the Child Indicators Initiative. The Office of the Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, sponsors the Advancing States Child Indicator Initiatives Project. Martha Moorehouse…
Post-Acute Care Issues for Medicare: Interviews with Provider and Consumer Groups, and Researchers and Policy Analysts
U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Post-Acute Care Issues for Medicare: Interviews with Provider and Consumer Groups, and Researchers and Policy Analysts Korbin Liu, Urban InstituteJennie Harvell, U.S. Department of Health and Human ServicesBarbara Gage, The MEDSTAT Group May 2000 PDF Version: http://aspe.hhs.gov/daltcp/reports/2000/pasissue.pdf (49 PDF pages)
Post-Acute Care Issues for Medicare: Interviews with Provider and Consumer Groups, and Researchers and Policy Analysts
Widespread interest in Medicare post-acute care issues, particularly after the Balanced Budget Act (BBA) passed, prompted DALTCP to sponsor an "early indication" qualitative study of the potential effects of the BBA provisions and other related issues. To obtain timely information on such issues, this study collected information through interviews with individuals knowledgeable about Medicare…
Medicare+Choice: Payment and Service Areas
The Balanced Budget Act of 1997 included a number of changes to Medicare managed care. The newly created Medicare+Choice program differs from its predecessor with regard to payment policies, enrollment and disenrollment policies, and the types of plans that can contract to provide care to Medicare beneficiaries. These changes were designed, in part, to expand the number and mix of private health…
Child Care Quality: Does It Matter and Does It Need to be Improved?
Child Care Quality: Does it Matter and Does It Need to be Improved? Executive Summary Contents Does the Quality of Child Care Have Meaningful Effects on Childrens Developmental Outcomes? What Is the Quality of Care in the United States? Is There a Case for Public Investment in Quality Child Care? Conclusions
Post-Acute Care Issues for Medicare: Interviews with Provider and Consumer Groups, and Researchers and Policy Analysts
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Assessment of Major Federal Data Sets for Analyses of Hispanic and Asian or Pacific Islander Subgroups and Native Americans: Inventory of Selected Existing Federal Databases
By: Joseph Waksberg Daniel Levine David Marker Submitted to:U.S. Department of Health and Human ServicesOffice of the Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation Submitted by: Westat 1650 Research Boulevard Rockville, Maryland 20850
Employer Decision Making Regarding Health Insurance
Summaries of Meetings Held with Senior Corporate Managers on Private Employer Strategies and Issues Affecting Health Care Coverage Conducted and prepared by Mathematica Policy Research, Inc. for the Office of the Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
Extending the Utility of Federal Data Bases
By: Joseph Waksberg Daniel Levine David Marker Submitted to:Office of the Assistant Secretary for Planning and EvaluationU.S. Department of Health and Human Services Submitted by: Westat, Inc. 1650 Research Boulevard Rockville, Maryland 20850
Action Against Asthma: A Strategic Plan for the Department of Health and Human Services
PrologueWe are facing an asthma epidemic. Through newspaper stories and personal experiences, we hear more about asthma every day. A child at school has an asthma attack in the classroom. The radio reports an air pollution alert, warning anyone with breathing problems to stay indoors. The local school board debates a policy on students carrying inhaler medications. Stories of asthma are all…
Effects of Trigger Events on Changes in Children's Health Insurance Coverage
This report examines the role of "trigger events" — primarily changes in the family economic situation or family composition — in bringing about these changes in health insurance coverage. In short, we ask whether there are other changes in the family that may explain the occurrence of these changes in coverage or their timing. We examine a broad spectrum of changes in coverage rather…
Effects of Trigger Events on Changes in Children's Health Insurance Coverage
Changes in children's health insurance coverage occur with far greater frequency than the modest year-to-year changes in the proportion uninsured or the proportion with different types of coverage would suggest. We present evidence that in the one-year period from July 1993 through June 1994 there were more than 23 million instances of children changing their coverage among major types of…
The Effects of Trigger Events on Changes in Children's Health Insurance Coverage
By: John L. Czajka Cara Olsen Mathematica Policy Research, Inc. Washington, D.C. April 18, 2000 Submitted to:Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
Welfare Leavers and Medicaid Dynamics: Five States in 1995
By Marilyn Ellwood & Carol Irvin Mathematica Policy Research, Inc. 50 Church Street, Fourth Floor Cambridge, MA 02138 April 14, 2000
The Use of Nursing Home and Assisted Living Facilities Among Privately Insured and Non-Privately Insured Disabled Elders
U.S. Department of Health and Human Services The Use of Nursing Home and Assisted Living Facilities Among Privately Insured and Non-Privately Insured Disabled Elders Marc A. Cohen, Ph.D., and Jessica Miller, M.S. LifePlans, Inc. April 2000 PDF Version: http://aspe.hhs.gov/daltcp/reports/2000/nhalfuse.pdf (63 PDF pages)
The Use of Nursing Home and Assisted Living Facilities Among Privately Insured and Non-Privately Insured Disabled Elders
The purpose of this report is to provide basic descriptive statistics on disabled private long-term care insurance policyholders who have accessed long-term care benefits in institutional settings, and to compare such data and findings to non-privately insured institutionalized elders. The authors did this by interviewing 480 long-term care insurance claimants from seven participating companies…