Reports

This report presents information on overlaps in eligible and participating populations in various health and human services programs, and identifies three main human services programs – the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), the Low Income Home Energy Assistance Program (LIHEAP), and the Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC) – as having considerable overlap with health insurance progra

This report describes the RAND Corporation’s evaluation of the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration’s (SAMHSA’s) Primary and Behavioral Health Care Integration (PBHCI) grants program. The PBHCI grants were designed to improve the overall wellness and physical health

ASPE FMAP 2015 REPORT Federal Financial Participation in State Assistance Expenditures; Federal Matching Shares for Medicaid, the Children’s Health Insurance Program, and Aid to Needy Aged, Blind, or Disabled Persons for October 1, 2014 through September 30, 2015

Federal Financial Participation in State Assistance Expenditures; Federal Matching Shares for Medicaid, the Children’s Health Insurance Program, and Aid to Needy Aged, Blind, or Disabled Persons for October 1, 2014 through September 30, 2015

ASPE asked RAND to review what has been learned about performance-based payment models, or Value-Based Purchasing (VBP) programs over the past decade that might help inform policymaking. Value-based purchasing programs are advancing in response to ACA requirements, including federal initiatives to accelerate redesign of delivery system through performance-based financial incentives.

This brief summarizes data released by the Census Bureau on the research supplemental poverty measure.

The goal of this project was to provide additional information to ASPE and CMS on the potential to risk adjust Medicare post-acute care (PAC) episode payments and costs using patient assessment data.

Pat Rivard, Beth Jackson and Teja Stokes Truven Health Analytics, Inc.  

This report explores how several states have designed their quality monitoring and improvement programs for managed long-term services and supports (MLTSS). The authors focus on the early adopters of MLTSS as well as those programs that are presented considered "established". The findings demonstrate how states take somewhat different approaches to managed care organization oversight.

A recent study commissioned by the Office of the Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation has found that large employer-based plans made substantial changes to their benefit designs in response to enactment of the Wellstone-Domenici Mental Health Parity and Addiction Equity Act (MHPAEA) of 2008 and issuance of the interim final rule (IFR).

This report explores how several states have designed their quality monitoring and improvement programs for managed long-term services and supports (MLTSS). The authors focus on the early adopters of MLTSS as well as those programs that are presented considered "established". The findings demonstrate how states take somewhat different approaches to managed care organization

Eric Goplerud, Ph.D. NORC at the University of Chicago

Eric Goplerud, Ph.D. NORC at the University of Chicago Printer Friendly Version in PDF Format: http://aspe.hhs.gov/daltcp/reports/2013/mhpaeAct.pdf

Approximately 6 in 10 eligible uninsured African Americans in the United States could obtain Health Insurance Marketplace tax credits, Medicaid, or the Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP). This ASPE Issue Brief discusses the demographics of the eligible uninsured African American population and new health insurance coverage options available to them under the Affordable Care Act.

By: Kenneth Finegold Abstract

Pat Rivard, Beth Jackson and Teja Stokes Truven Health Analytics, Inc.  

Colene Byrne, Ph.D. Westat Michelle Dougherty, MA, RHIA AHIMA Foundation

Use of electronic health information exchange (HIE) with and by long-term and post-acute care (LTPAC) providers lags behind that of physicians and hospitals. However, a few grant programs have supported HIE with LTPAC providers.

ASPE RESEARCH BRIEF By: Laura Skopec and Emily R. Gee Abstract

Since the Great Recession poverty has increased overall and particularly for children. Nearly all of the increase in child poverty occurred between 2007 and 2010 with the national rate rising by 3.8 percentage points, as shown by the orange bars (from 18.0 percent to 21.8 percent). In 2011 and 2012 the national poverty rate leveled off with little change, as shown by the green bars.

This brief analyzes and summarizes changes in child poverty from 2007-2012. Cited statistics include changes in the poverty rate and number of children in poverty by age, race and ethnicity, family type, and immigrant generation.

ABOUT THIS ISSUE BRIEF

As the number of immigrant children and children of immigrants in the U.S. has grown, child welfare agencies are serving an increasingly diverse spectrum of families, including many with at least one parent or some children who were born outside the U.S.

Final White Paper Contract # HHSP2333700IT Prepared for: James Sorace, MD, MS,   Michael Millman, PhD Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation U.S. Department of Health & Human Services 200 Independence Ave. S.W. Washington, DC 20201

Final White Paper Contract # HHSP2333700IT September 20, 2013

Research Addressing the HHS Strategic Framework on Multiple Chronic Conditions Contract # HHSP2333700IT Prepared for: James Sorace, MD, MS Michael Millman, PhD

ASPE ISSUE BRIEF By: ASPE Human Services Policy Staff Abstract

Angela M. Greene, MS, MBA, Joshua M. Wiener, PhD, Galina Khatutsky, MS, Ruby Johnson, MA, MS, and Janet O'Keeffe, DrPH RTI International

Teja Stokes, Beth Jackson and Pat Rivard Truven Health Analytics, Inc. September 2013 Printer Friendly Version in PDF Format: http://aspe.hhs.gov/daltcp/reports/2013/verifyRB.pdf (8 PDF pages)

This report describes how frequently various quality requirement elements appear in managed care organization contracts, as well as some similarities and differences in the quality requirements. 

Angela M. Greene, MS, MBA, Joshua M. Wiener, PhD, Galina Khatutsky, MS, Ruby Johnson, MA, MS, and Janet O'Keeffe, DrPH RTI International September 2013 This report was prepared under contract #HHSP23320095651WC between the U.S.

This report describes how frequently various quality requirement elements appear in managed care organization contracts, as well as some similarities and differences in the quality requirements. [139 PDF pages]