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This paper describes the results of a pilot test to link HUD administrative data to CMS claims data. The project was successful in matching files for 12 geographic areas using 2008 claims. The results show that older adults receiving HUD assistance have higher Medicare and Medicaid utilization than individuals in the community not receiving HUD

Social Security Disability Insurance (SSDI), a program operated by the Social Security Administration, insures workers and their families against the inability to work because of a disability. As such, it provides a vital safety net for millions of Americans. However, conflicting statistics and differing perspectives on the program have given r

Descriptive Study of Three Disability Competent Managed Care Plans for Medicaid Enrollees

How Have Long-Term Services and Supports Providers Fared in the Transition to Medicaid Managed Care? A Study of Three States

This research brief examines child poverty in 2010 using both the official poverty measure that the Census Bureau has been using since the 1960s and the more recent Research Supplemental Poverty Measure (SPM).

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 havi

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. In addition, Medicare payment changes (i.e., hospital readmission payment penalties and physician payment for transition

This report, prepared by the Urban Institute, provides a thorough review of the literature on the extent of price variation across geographic areas, an assessment of the available indices to use to adjust the poverty guidelines for geographic price variation, and trial estimates of how geographically adjusted poverty guidelines would affect progra

ASPE RESEARCH BRIEF   Abstract

ASPE REPORT Assessing the Status and Prospects of State and Local Health Department Information Technology Infrastructure January 2013 By: NORC at the University of Chicago Abstract