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Addressing Critical Incidents in the MLTSS Environment: Research Brief
Pat Rivard, Beth Jackson and Teja Stokes Truven Health Analytics, Inc. In this Brief, the authors Pat Rivard, Beth Jackson and Teja Stokes from Truven Health Analytics, describe the critical incidents that state typically require MLTSS plans to report, remedial actions taken, and timeframes for reporting both critical incidents and remedial actions.
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Eligible Uninsured African Americans: 6 in 10 Could Receive Health Insurance Marketplace Tax Credits, Medicaid or CHIP
Approximately 6 in 10 eligible uninsured African Americans in the United States could obtain Health Insurance Marketplace tax credits, Medicaid, or the Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP). This ASPE Issue Brief discusses the demographics of the eligible uninsured African American population and new health insurance coverage options available to them under the Affordable Care Act.
Quality in Managed Long-Term Services and Supports Programs
This report explores how several states have designed their quality monitoring and improvement programs for managed long-term services and supports (MLTSS). The authors focus on the early adopters of MLTSS as well as those programs that are presented considered "established". The findings demonstrate how states take somewhat different approaches to managed care organization oversight. [119 PDF…
Post-Acute Care Episode Risk Adjustment Extrapolation Analyses
The goal of this project was to provide additional information to ASPE and CMS on the potential to risk adjust Medicare post-acute care (PAC) episode payments and costs using patient assessment data. The Continuity Assessment Record and Evaluation (CARE) data collected in the CMS Post-Acute Care Payment Reform Demonstration (PAC PRD) provide a unique opportunity to use the same set of items to…
Consistency of Large Employer and Group Health Plan Benefits with Requirements of the Paul Wellstone and Pete Domenici Mental Health Parity and Addiction Equity Act of 2008
Eric Goplerud, Ph.D.
NORC at the University of Chicago
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Quality in Managed Long-Term Services and Supports Programs
Quality in Managed Long-Term Services and Supports Programs Executive Summary Beth Jackson, Pat Rivard, Julie Seibert, Jason Rachel and Taylor Whitworth Truven Health Analytics November 2013
Substantial Improvements to Mental Health and Substance Use Disorder Coverage in Response to the Mental Health Parity and Addiction Equity Act of 2008
A recent study commissioned by the Office of the Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation has found that large employer-based plans made substantial changes to their benefit designs in response to enactment of the Wellstone-Domenici Mental Health Parity and Addiction Equity Act (MHPAEA) of 2008 and issuance of the interim final rule (IFR). Most plans removed most financial requirements…
Quality in Managed Long-Term Services and Supports Programs
This report explores how several states have designed their quality monitoring and improvement programs for managed long-term services and supports (MLTSS). The authors focus on the early adopters of MLTSS as well as those programs that are presented considered "established". The findings demonstrate how states take somewhat different approaches to managed care organization oversight. [119 PDF…
New Census Estimates Show 3 Million More Americans Had Health Insurance Coverage in 2012
By: Kenneth Finegold Abstract
Consistency of Large Employer and Group Health Plan Benefits with Requirements of the Paul Wellstone and Pete Domenici Mental Health Parity and Addiction Equity Act of 2008
Eric Goplerud, Ph.D. NORC at the University of Chicago
Long-Term and Post-Acute Care Providers Engaged in Health Information Exchange: Final Report
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 transitions of care and chronic care management) are…
Long-Term and Post-Acute Care Providers Engaged in Health Information Exchange: Final Report
Long-Term and Post-Acute Care Providers Engaged in Health Information Exchange: Final Report Executive Summary Colene Byrne, Ph.D.Westat Michelle Dougherty, MA, RHIAAHIMA Foundation October 29, 2013
Long-Term and Post-Acute Care Providers Engaged in Health Information Exchange: Final Report
Colene Byrne, Ph.D. Westat Michelle Dougherty, MA, RHIA AHIMA Foundation
Research Brief
Nearly 5 in 10 Uninsured Single Young Adults Eligible for the Health Insurance Marketplace Could Pay $50 or Less Per month for Coverage in 2014
ASPE RESEARCH BRIEF By: Laura Skopec and Emily R. Gee Abstract
Change in Child Poverty by Selected Demographic Characteristics: 2007-2012
This brief analyzes and summarizes changes in child poverty from 2007-2012. Cited statistics include changes in the poverty rate and number of children in poverty by age, race and ethnicity, family type, and immigrant generation. The data are based on information collected in the 2013 and earlier Current Population Survey Annual Social and Economic Supplements (CPS ASEC) conducted by the Census…
Change in Child Poverty by Select Demographic Characteristics: 2007-2012
Since the Great Recession poverty has increased overall and particularly for children. Nearly all of the increase in child poverty occurred between 2007 and 2010 with the national rate rising by 3.8 percentage points, as shown by the orange bars (from 18.0 percent to 21.8 percent). In 2011 and 2012 the national poverty rate leveled off with little change, as shown by the green bars. Table…