New on the Web August 2012
From the Alliance for Health Reform: “Medicaid Managed Long-Term Services and Supports: Are More Caution and Oversight Needed?,” “Health Insurance Exchanges: Can States and the Federal Government Meet the Deadline?”
From the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities: “Deficit-Reduction Package that Lacks Significant Revenues Would Shift Very Substantial Costs to States and Localities,” “Ryan Roundup: Everything You Need to Know about Chairman Ryan’s Budget”
From the Commonwealth Fund: “State Action to Establish Health Insurance Exchanges”
From the Government Accountability Office (GAO): “Medicaid Expansion: States’ Implementation of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act”
From Health Affairs and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation: ”Increase in Federal Match Associated with Significant Gains in Coverage for Children through Medicaid and CHIP”
From the Kaiser Commission on Medicaid and the Uninsured: “Health Coverage of Children: The Role of Medicaid and CHIP,” “How Will the Medicaid Expansion for Adults Impact Eligibility and Coverage?”
From the Kaiser Family Foundation: “Establishing Health Insurance Exchanges: An Overview of State Efforts”
From the National Academy for State Health Policy and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation: “Consumer Assistance in the Digital Age: New Tools to Help People Enroll in Medicaid, CHIP, and Exchanges”
From the National Health Law Program: “50 Reasons Medicaid Expansion Is Good for Your State”
From the New England Journal of Medicine: “A Systemic Approach to Containing Health Care Spending”
From the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and the Urban Institute: “Opting In to the Medicaid Expansion under the ACA: Who Are the Uninsured Adults Who Could Gain Health Insurance Coverage?”
From the Urban Institute: “Considerations in Assessing State-Specific Fiscal Effects of the ACA’s Medicaid Expansion”
From the Alliance for Health Reform:
Medicaid Managed Long-Term Services and Supports: Are More Caution and Oversight Needed? is a briefing that addressed the following questions: Who is being served by Medicaid managed care? Are managed care programs providing high-quality, efficient care? And how do different models of state oversight vary from one to another? (August 2012)
Health Insurance Exchanges: Can States and the Federal Government Meet the Deadline? is a briefing that answered the following questions: What do states need to do between now and January 2014 to successfully implement exchanges? What are the options for states that fail to meet the November deadline to declare their exchange plans? And what are the potential challenges of implementing the federal exchange, especially in states that oppose the law? (July 2012)
From the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities:
Deficit-Reduction Package that Lacks Significant Revenues Would Shift Very Substantial Costs to States and Localities explains that Paul Ryan’s budget would cut state and local services far more than the spending cuts imposed by last summer’s Budget Control Act. Ryan’s budget would cut state funding to historically low levels for Medicaid and for services such as education, law enforcement, and disaster response. (August 2012)
Ryan Roundup: Everything You Need to Know about Chairman Ryan’s Budget is a compilation of blog posts, infographics, and analyses that include general background information on his budget, as well as information on his proposals for taxes, health care, and safety net programs. (August 2012)
From the Commonwealth Fund:
State Action to Establish Health Insurance Exchanges is an interactive map that shows the status of state action on exchanges. In states that have begun to establish exchanges, the map explains key aspects of existing exchanges, state legislation, and executive orders. (July 2012)
From the Government Accountability Office (GAO):
Medicaid Expansion: States’ Implementation of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act addresses the following questions: What are states’ responsibilities for expanding Medicaid? What have states done to prepare for the expansion, and what challenges have they faced? And what are states’ views on the potential impact of the expansion on state budgets? (August 2012)
From Health Affairs and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation:
Increase in Federal Match Associated with Significant Gains in Coverage for Children through Medicaid and CHIP explains that there is a strong relationship between federal matching amounts and enrollment in Medicaid, meaning that cuts to federal funding for Medicaid would likely result in pronounced declines in children’s coverage. (August 2012)
From the Kaiser Commission on Medicaid and the Uninsured:
Health Coverage of Children: The Role of Medicaid and CHIP describes how Medicaid and the Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP) work together to provide more than one-third of children with health coverage, bringing children’s uninsurance rates to historically low levels. It also breaks down the demographics of the remaining 8 million uninsured children by income, and it provides children’s uninsurance rates by race and by state. (July 2012)
How Will the Medicaid Expansion for Adults Impact Eligibility and Coverage? provides an overview of current Medicaid eligibility levels and data on uninsured adults to further examine the implications of the Medicaid expansion. It includes a state-by-state breakdown of eligibility levels and uninsurance rates. (July 2012)
From the Kaiser Family Foundation:
Establishing Health Insurance Exchanges: An Overview of State Efforts provides an overview of what states have done so far to set up exchanges. It includes a table that lays out key characteristics of established exchanges, such as structure, contracting type, and governance. (August 2012)
From the National Academy for State Health Policy and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation:
Consumer Assistance in the Digital Age: New Tools to Help People Enroll in Medicaid, CHIP, and Exchanges focuses on how states can help the millions of Americans who will be eligible for more affordable coverage through Medicaid or the exchanges and how current consumer assistance efforts will change as new technology transforms the enrollment process. (July 2012)
From the National Health Law Program:
50 Reasons Medicaid Expansion Is Good for Your State lists the financial benefits of the Medicaid expansion for states. For example, the expansion would save states money on uncompensated care, would keep working residents from moving to other states that offer them coverage, would bring in new federal dollars, and would improve the financial security of state residents. (August 2012)
From the New England Journal of Medicine:
A Systemic Approach to Containing Health Care Spending outlines methods for controlling health costs that are recommended by several noted health policy experts, including Stuart Altman, Donald Berwick, Ezekiel Emanuel, Peter Orszag, John Podesta, Uwe Reinhardt, and Neera Tanden. The proposed solutions, such as using competitive bidding and finding alternatives to fee-for-service payments, can be implemented separately or as part of an integrated approach. (August 2012)
From the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and the Urban Institute:
Opting In to the Medicaid Expansion under the ACA: Who Are the Uninsured Adults Who Could Gain Health Insurance Coverage? examines the diversity of the 15.1 million uninsured adults who would gain coverage. It breaks down the demographics of these adults by age, sex, parental status, race/ethnicity, and citizenship status. (August 2012)
From the Urban Institute:
Considerations in Assessing State-Specific Fiscal Effects of the ACA’s Medicaid Expansion explores the potential effects of the Medicaid expansion on costs, savings, and revenue for states. State officials need to consider these effects when deciding whether to implement the Medicaid expansion. (August 2012)
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