Reports

ASPE ISSUE BRIEF Under The Affordable Care Act, 105 Million Americans No Longer Face Lifetime Limits on Health Benefits March 2012 By: Thomas D. Musco and Benjamin D. Sommers, ASPE

The Affordable Care Act prohibits health plans from putting a lifetime dollar limit on most benefits received by Americans in any health plan renewing on or after September 23, 2010. While some plans already provided coverage with no limits on lifetime benefits, millions of Americans were previously in health plans that did not.

This Issue Paper describes three subgroups of the people experiencing chronic homelessness, and the services and housing configurations currently supporting them.

This Issue Paper describes innovative approaches to establishing SSI eligibility. [33 PDF pages]

This Issue Paper describes the ways that Medicaid is being used now and might be used in the future under provisions of the Affordable Care Act of 2010 to serve chronically homeless people. [67 PDF pages]

This Issue Paper looks at innovative ways that public housing agencies are supporting housing for formerly homeless people in the communities the researchers visited.

This Issue Paper describes the ways that Medicaid is being used now and might be used in the future under provisions of the Affordable Care Act of 2010 to serve chronically homeless people. [67 PDF pages]

This Issue Paper describes innovative approaches to establishing SSI eligibility. [33 PDF pages]

This Issue Paper describes three subgroups of the people experiencing chronic homelessness, and the services and housing configurations currently supporting them. [48 PDF pages]

This Issue Paper looks at innovative ways that public housing agencies are supporting housing for formerly homeless people in the communities the researchers visited. [29 PDF pages]

ASPE ISSUE BRIEF Fifty-Four Million Additional Americans Are Receiving Preventive Services Coverage Without Cost-Sharing Under The Affordable Care Act February 2012 By: Benjamin D. Sommers and Lee Wilson ASPE

This brief reviews the literature on the cost of contraceptive coverage in private and public health insurance programs.  This brief was written by John Bertko, F.S.A., M.A.A.A., Director of Special Initiatives and Pricing in the Center for Consumer Information and Insurance Oversight at the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services; Sherry Glied, Ph.D., Assistant

M. Susan Ridgely , Rosalie Liccardo Pacula , and M. Audrey Burnam RAND Corporation

ASPE ISSUE BRIEF Medicare Beneficiary Savings and the Affordable Care Act February 2012

By: Fredrik Andersson Office of the Comptroller of the Currency, Department of Treasury   Matthew Freedman Cornell University   Julia Lane National Science Foundation Susan Hauan Office of the Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation, Department of Health and Human Services

The increasing labor supply of single mothers in the US labor market in the 1990s is well documented, but due to data deficiencies it generally has been difficult to track the progress in the labor market of this group.

This Issue Brief provides estimates of Medicare Parts A, B, and D savings from the Affordable Care Act to seniors and people living with disabilities enrolled in traditional Medicare.

As the largest payer of mental health services in the United States, Medicaid programs have an opportunity to promote high-quality care for serious and persistent mental illnesses (SPMI) through the use of reimbursement strategies and policies that encourage the delivery of evidence-based practices (EBPs).

This Issue Brief describes the extent to which Medicaid beneficiaries with schizophrenia and bipolar disorder in 22 states received evidence-based treatment using 2007 Medicaid claims data. This brief was prepared by Allison Barrett and Jonathan Brown of Mathematica Policy Research. Other members of the research team included Emily Caffery, Kerianne Hourihan, and Henry Ireys.

This paper reviews the literature on effectiveness on existing models of affordable housing with health or supportive services. The review found a range of program models, including a variety of types of services, and delivery methods (congregate or scattered-site).

This ASPE Research Brief, written by Susan Hauan of ASPE and Fredrik Andersson of the Department of Treasury, presents research findings on the relationship between the past work experiences of single mothers and their subsequent employment and earnings outcomes.

This paper reviews the literature on effectiveness on existing models of affordable housing with health or supportive services. The review found a range of program models, including a variety of types of services, and delivery methods (congregate or scattered-site).

   

Despite enormous expenditures and innovations in treatment, the United States health care system does not consistently deliver effective treatment to individuals with serious mental illnesses.

Despite enormous expenditures and innovations in treatment, the United States health care system does not consistently deliver effective treatment to individuals with serious mental illnesses. Health care reform promises to make insurance benefits newly available to many, eliminate inequitable

Accelerating Adoption of Assistive Technology

ASPE Research Brief By: Tamara G. Halle, Elizabeth C. Hair, Margaret Buchinal, Rachel Anderson, and Martha Zaslow  

This report examines and assesses the often overlooked potential of assistive technology (AT) to benefit unpaid family caregivers who assist chronically disabled elders living at home. Although research has identified benefits, only a handful of publicly-funded family caregiver support programs give much attention to enabling caregivers’ access to AT.

This research brief summarizes findings related to 'thresholds' of school readiness from a larger ASPE study on this topic called 'In the Running for Successful Outcomes.' The In the Running project's findings contribute to an emerging picture of school readiness skills and developmental trajectories.

This research brief summarizes a multi-method study examining the evidence for thresholds in association between children's school readiness and subsequent academic, social and emotional outcomes, both within and across domains. In addition to a literature review, multiple analytical methods were applied to two national data sets to examine these issues.

ASPE Research Brief Exploring the Evidence for Thresholds of School Readines By: Tamara G. Halle, Elizabeth C. Hair, Margaret Buchinal, Rachel Anderson, and Martha Zaslow

Introduction Section 241(a) of the Public Health Service Act authorizes evaluation of the implementation and effectiveness of programs funded by the Act.

  ASPE ISSUE BRIEF 1.2 Million Children Gain Insurance Since Reauthorization of Childrens Health Insurance Program December 2011 By: Benjamin D. Sommers ASPE

EXECUTIVE SUMMARY Contents Introduction and Background Data Needs and Priorities Research and Development to Improve HHS Data Collection Systems Web Panels and Web Surveys

By: Sheila Hoag, Mary Harrington, Cara Orfield, Victoria Peebles, Kimberly Smith, Adam Swinburn, Matthew Hodges, Kenneth Finegold, ASPE, Sean Orzol, Wilma Robinson, ASPE Submitted by: Mathematica Policy Research, Inc. Project Director: Mary Harrington, Mathematica

Office of the Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation

ASPE ISSUE BRIEF Essential Health Benefits:  Individual Market Coverage December 16, 2011 This Issue Brief is available on the Internet at:http://aspe.hhs.gov/health/reports/2011/IndividualMarket/ib.shtml

  ASPE RESEARCH BRIEF Essential Health Benefits: Comparing Benefits in Small Group Products and State and Federal Employee Plans December 2011 This Issue Brief is available on the Internet at:http://aspe.hhs.gov/health/reports/2011/MarketComparison/rb.shtml

The Affordable Care Act identified ten categories of services and items included in essential health benefits (EHBs). All ten categories of services and items must be covered by insurance offered in the individual and small group markets as of January 1, 2014.

This report examines the variation in Medigap premiums, recent trends in premium growth and policies that experience relatively high premium growth. The report also compares the premium growth over different segments of the entire time period studied, and to changes in enrollment in both Medigap policies and the Medicare Advantage Program. [38 PDF pages]

By: Jacqueline Kauff, Emily Sama-Miller, Gretchen Rowe, Cicely Thomas, and Libby Makowsky Mathematica Policy Research, Inc. Submitted to: U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation (ASPE) Contract Number: HHSP23320095642WC/HHSP23337018T Mathematica Reference Number: 06858.008

By: Benjamin D. Sommers and Karyn Schwartz ASPE