New on the Web 73 (October 2010)
From Academy Health and State Coverage Initiatives from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation:“Health Insurance Exchanges: Key Issues for State Implementation”
From the Center for American Progress: “Adding Up the Numbers: Understanding Medicare Savings in the Affordable Care Act”
From the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention: “Health Insurance Coverage: Early Release of Estimates from the National Health Interview Survey, January-March 2010”
From the Commonwealth Fund: “Pre-Existing Condition Insurance Plans Created by the Affordable Care Act of 2010,” “Young Adults and the Affordable Care Act of 2010”
From the Commonwealth Fund and Washington and Lee University School of Law: “Health Insurance Exchanges and the Affordable Care Act: Eight Difficult Issues”
From the Department of Health and Human Services: “Children’s Health Insurance Program Reauthorization Act: One Year Later Connecting Kids to Coverage”
From the House of Representatives Committee on Energy and Commerce: “Coverage Denials for Pre-Existing Conditions in the Individual Health Insurance Market”
From the Kaiser Commission on Medicaid and the Uninsured: “Medicaid and Long-Term Care Services and Supports,” “Medicaid Enrollment: December 2009 Data Snapshot”
From the Kaiser Family Foundation: “Briefing Examines High Medicare Spending for Beneficiaries in Long-Term Care,” “Building Enrollment Systems that Meet the Expectations of the Affordable Care Act,” “Health Reform and Communities of Color: Implications for Racial and Ethnic Health Disparities”
From Mathematica: “Money Follows the Person 2009 Annual Report”
From Academy Health and State Coverage Initiatives from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation:
Health Insurance Exchanges: Key Issues for State Implementation highlights several issues, including risk selection (both inside and outside of the exchanges), the rules governing carrier participation, how exchanges will interact with existing public programs, and whether states should establish their own exchanges or defer to the federal government. (September 2010)
From the Center for American Progress:
Adding Up the Numbers: Understanding Medicare Savings in the Affordable Care Act looks at how the Medicare savings that will be achieved under the new law will significantly improve the fiscal stability of the program, and, in turn, improve the efficiency and quality of the health care system overall. (September 2010)
From the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention:
Health Insurance Coverage: Early Release of Estimates from the National Health Interview Survey, January-March 2010 estimates rates of health insurance coverage, including private versus public coverage. Lack of health insurance is measured in three ways: whether a person was uninsured at the time of the interview, uninsured for at least part of the year, or uninsured for more than a year. (September 2010)
From the Commonwealth Fund:
Pre-Existing Condition Insurance Plans Created by the Affordable Care Act of 2010 examines eligibility, benefits, premiums, cost-sharing, and oversight of the pre-existing condition insurance plan programs, as well as variation of the plans from state to state. (October 2010)
Young Adults and the Affordable Care Act of 2010 discusses the provisions that will benefit young adults, including the ability to stay on a parent’s health plan until age 26, the Medicaid expansion, and subsidies in the exchanges. More than 12 million young adults may gain subsidized coverage by 2014, and 7.2 million may gain coverage under Medicaid. (October 2010)
From the Commonwealth Fund and Washington and Lee University Law School:
Health Insurance Exchanges and the Affordable Care Act: Eight Difficult Issues analyzes and responds to eight of the most difficult issues that states and the federal government face in implementing the exchanges, including who should run the exchanges, how exchanges should avoid adverse selection, and what exchanges can do to reduce administrative costs. (September 2010)
From the Department of Health and Human Services:
Children’s Health Insurance Program Reauthorization Act: One Year Later Connecting Kids to Coverage reviews the progress that the program has achieved over the past year and the steps that the federal and state governments are taking to increase enrollment of eligible children and improve the quality of coverage. (September 2010)
From the House of Representatives Committee on Energy and Commerce:
Coverage Denials for Pre-Existing Conditions in the Individual Health Insurance Market reports on Congress’s investigation into the extent of coverage denials and exclusions for pre-existing conditions. The investigation found that, in the three years before health reform was passed, the four largest for-profit insurers denied coverage to more than 600,000 individuals because of pre-existing conditions, and the number of coverage denials increased significantly each year. (October 2010)
From the Kaiser Commission on Medicaid and the Uninsured:
Medicaid and Long-Term Care Services and Supports provides an overview of different elements of Medicaid and long-term services and supports, including who pays for long-term services and supports, who qualifies for Medicaid long-term care services, and what long-term care services are covered under Medicaid. (October 2010)
Medicaid Enrollment: December 2009 Data Snapshot looks at enrollment trends from December 2001 through December 2009. Enrollment rose by 3.69 million in 2009 and has risen by 6 million since the beginning of the recession, underscoring the additional financial pressure that has been placed on state budgets as more and more people lose employer coverage and turn to public programs. (September 2010)
From the Kaiser Family Foundation:
Briefing Examines High Medicare Spending for Beneficiaries in Long-Term Care discusses three recent reports that looked at Medicare spending, medical care in long-term care facilities, and financial incentives in long-term care. The briefing also includes a moderated discussion on the implications of the findings of the reports. (October 2010)
Building Enrollment Systems that Meet the Expectations of the Affordable Care Act provides a framework for states as they implement the enrollment-related provisions of the new law, and it offers lessons from other states’ experiences with newer, integrated enrollment practices. (October 2010)
Health Reform and Communities of Color: Implications for Racial and Ethnic Health Disparities discusses some of the key provisions of the new law that will expand health coverage and that are likely to improve access to care for people of color, as well as some of the other provisions that will likely have either a direct or indirect impact on health disparities. (September 2010)
From Mathematica:
Money Follows the Person, 2009 Annual Report describes the status of the program from its creation in 2005 through December 31, 2009, including how states are progressing toward their goals. It also provides a foundation that can be used for future analysis of the program’s impact and outcomes. (September 2010)
[Back to New on the Web]
