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In the Running for Successful Outcomes: Contemplating "Threshholds" for School Readiness
ASPE Research Brief
By: Tamara G. Halle, Elizabeth C. Hair, Margaret Buchinal, Rachel Anderson, and Martha Zaslow
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Accelerating Adoption of Assistive Technology to Reduce Physical Strain among Family Caregivers of the Chronically Disabled Elderly Living at Home
Accelerating Adoption of Assistive Technology 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…
Performance Improvement 2011-2012
Introduction Section 241(a) of the Public Health Service Act authorizes evaluation of the implementation and effectiveness of programs funded by the Act. Section 241(b) requires the Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS) to summarize the findings from these studies in annual reports to the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee and to the House Energy and Commerce Committee…
1.2 Million Children Gain Insurance Since Reauthorization of Children's Health Insurance Program
ASPE ISSUE BRIEF 1.2 Million Children Gain Insurance Since Reauthorization of Childrens Health Insurance Program December 2011 By: Benjamin D. Sommers ASPE
Program Evaluation
Children's Health Insurance Program: An Evaluation (1997 - 2010)
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 Contract Number: HHSP23320095642WC/HHSP23337021T Mathematica Reference Number: 06873.130
Improving Data for Decision Making: HHS Data Collection Strategies for a Transformed Health System
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY Contents Introduction and Background Data Needs and Priorities Research and Development to Improve HHS Data Collection Systems Web Panels and Web Surveys Timeliness of HHS Data Systems Access to HHS Data Non-Traditional Data Sources
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Variation and Trends in Medigap Premiums
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]
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Essential Health Benefits: Individual Market Coverage
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.
ASPE Issue Brief
Essential Health Benefits: Comparing Benefits in Small Group Products and State and Federal Employee Plans
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Variation and Trends in Medigap Premiums
Office of the Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation The Office of the Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation (ASPE) is the principal advisor to the Secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) on policy development issues. It is responsible for major activities in the areas of legislative and budget development, strategic planning, policy research and…
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Essential Health Benefits: Individual Market Coverage
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 Issue Brief
Essential Health Benefits: Comparing Benefits in Small Group Products and State and Federal Employee Plans
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
Promoting Public Benefits Access Through Web-Based Tools and Outreach
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
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2.5 Million Young Adults Gain Health Insurance Due to the Affordable Care Act
Results released December 14, 2011, by the National Center for Health Statistics demonstrate that the extension of dependent coverage up to age 26 has increased the number of young adults with health insurance, by even more than prior analyses had suggested. This policy, enacted as part of the Affordable Care Act, took effect for insurance plan renewals beginning on September 23, 2010, and was…
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2.5 Million Young Adults Gain Health Insurance Due to the Affordable Care Act
By: Benjamin D. Sommers and Karyn Schwartz ASPE
Residential Care Facilities: A Key Sector in the Spectrum of Long-term Care Providers in the United States
Eunice Park-Lee, Ph.D., Christine Caffrey, Ph.D., Manisha Sengupta, Ph.D., Abigail J. Moss, Emily Rosenoff, M.P.A., and Lauren D. Harris-Kojetin, Ph.D.
Opportunities for Engaging Long-Term and Post-Acute Care Providers in Health Information Exchange Activities: Exchanging Interoperable Patient Assessment Information
This report provides a strategy and tools to support health information technology (HIT) adoption and use among long-term/post-acute care (LTPAC) providers, particularly nursing homes and home health agencies. The analysis and recommendations result from a four-year study sponsored by ASPE/HHS and undertaken by the American Health Information Management Association Foundation that involved input…
Opportunities for Engaging Long-Term and Post-Acute Care Providers in Health Information Exchange Activities: Exchanging Interoperable Patient Assessment Information
Opportunities for Engaging Long-Term and Post-Acute Care Providers in Health Information Exchange Activities: Exchanging Interoperable Patient Assessment Information Executive Summary Michelle Dougherty, MA, RHIA, CHP AHIMA Foundation Jennie Harvell Office of the Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation U.S. Department of Health and Human Services December 2011