Reports

The purpose of this Compendium is to summarize and compare states’ residential care setting regulations. This is the New Mexico state profile. A list of URLs for the full report and other state profiles can be found at the end of this paper.

The purpose of this Compendium is to summarize and compare states’ residential care setting regulations. This is the Ohio state profile. A list of URLs for the full report and other state profiles can be found at the end of this paper.

The purpose of this Compendium is to summarize and compare states’ residential care setting regulations. This is the Delaware state profile. A list of URLs for the full report and other state profiles can be found at the end of this paper.

The purpose of this Compendium is to summarize and compare states’ residential care setting regulations. This is the New Jersey state profile. A list of URLs for the full report and other state profiles can be found at the end of this paper.

The purpose of this Compendium is to summarize and compare states’ residential care setting regulations. This is the Arkansas state profile. A list of URLs for the full report and other state profiles can be found at the end of this paper.

The purpose of this Compendium is to summarize and compare states’ residential care setting regulations. This is the Arizona state profile. A list of URLs for the full report and other state profiles can be found at the end of this paper.

The purpose of this Compendium is to summarize and compare states’ residential care setting regulations. This is the Alaska state profile. A list of URLs for the full report and other state profiles can be found at the end of this paper.

Medicare’s Hospice Benefit:Revising the Payment System to Better Reflect Visit Intensity May 28, 2015 Steve Sheingold, Susan Bogasky, and Sally Stearns I. Introduction

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The prevalence of co-morbid chronic physical and behavioral health conditions is an established driver of spiraling costs and poor health outcomes among Medicaid recipients.  States are increasingly deploying new managed care models to help control Medicaid costs and promote improved health outcomes.

This paper compares CHIP and QHP out-of-pocket spending for premiums and cost sharing, taking into account premium subsidies and cost-sharing reductions for Marketplace plans. We also review analyses done by others comparing the benefit packages in separate CHIP plans and QHPs.

Plan Selections by ZIP Code in the Health Insurance Marketplace April 2015

This Issue Brief describes the strategies used by four states--Louisiana, Massachusetts, Tennessee, and Illinois--to improve the link between Medicaid and housing services for adult Medicaid beneficiaries with behavioral health conditions.

April 2015 Printer Friendly Version in PDF Format: http://aspe.hhs.gov/pdf-report/state-strategies-coordinating-medicaid-services-and-housing-adults-behavioral-health-conditions (12 PDF pages)

Eric Goplerud and Tracy L. McPherson NORC at the University of Chicago

This report reviews the research literature on the barriers in federally qualified health centers (FQHCs) and primary care and strategies for overcoming those barriers to integrate substance use (SU) care into evolving patient-centered medical/health homes (PCMHs). The literature review is supplemented by extensive interviews with experts and site visits to FQHCs across the country.

ASPE Issue Brief: Opioid Abuse in the U.S. and HHS Actions to Address Opioid-Drug Related Overdoses and Deaths (PDF-12 Pages)

This report developed new estimates of the program’s effects for Program of All-Inclusive Care for the Elderly (PACE) enrollees in eight states based on more recent data. PACE plans provide coordinated acute and long-term care services to nursing home eligible seniors residing in the community. [75 PDF pages]

Arkadipta Ghosh, Robert Schmitz and Randall Brown Mathematica Policy Research

In 2013, ASPE contracted with Mathematica Policy Research to conduct case studies of the financing arrangements and delivery models that states are using to improve the coordination of care for Medicaid beneficiaries with mental health and substance use disorders in four states: Illinois, Louisiana, Massachusetts, and Tennessee.

In 2013, ASPE contracted with Mathematica Policy Research to conduct case studies of the financing arrangements and delivery models that states are using to improve the coordination of care for Medicaid beneficiaries with mental health and substance use disorders in four states: Illinois, Louisiana, Massachusetts, and Tennessee.

In 2013, ASPE contracted with Mathematica Policy Research to conduct case studies of the financing arrangements and delivery models that states are using to improve the coordination of care for Medicaid beneficiaries with mental health and substance use disorders in four states: Illinois, Louisiana, Massachusetts, and Tennessee.

In 2013, ASPE contracted with Mathematica Policy Research to conduct case studies of the financing arrangements and delivery models that states are using to improve the coordination of care for Medicaid beneficiaries with mental health and substance use disorders in four states: Illinois, Louisiana, Massachusetts, and Tennessee.

In 2013, ASPE contracted with Mathematica Policy Research to conduct case studies of the financing arrangements and delivery models that states are using to improve the coordination of care for Medicaid beneficiaries with mental health and substance use disorders in four states: Illinois, Louisiana, Massachusetts, and Tennessee.

In 2013, ASPE contracted with Mathematica Policy Research to conduct case studies of the financing arrangements and delivery models that states are using to improve the coordination of care for Medicaid beneficiaries with mental health and substance use disorders in four states: Illinois, Louisiana, Massachusetts, and Tennessee.

ABOUT THIS ISSUE BRIEF This ASPE issue brief on federal child care assistance eligibility and receipt shows that approximately 17 percent of federally-eligible children received subsidized care through CCDF or related government funding streams in an average month in fiscal year 2011.

February 9, 2015 Arpit Misra and Thomas Tsai   The Affordable Care Act helps families afford health insurance coverage by providing financial assistance in the form of advanced premium tax credits and cost-sharing reductions in the Health Insurance Marketp