Reports

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

   

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

Accelerating Adoption of Assistive Technology

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

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.

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 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

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

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]

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.

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

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 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.

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.

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

Federal Financial Participation in State Assistance Expenditures; Federal Matching Shares for Medicaid, the Children’s Health Insurance Program, and Aid to Needy Aged, Blind, or Disabled Persons for October 1, 2012 through September 30, 2013

ASPE FMAP 2013 REPORT

  ASPE RESEARCH BRIEF Human Services and Housing Supports to Address Family Homelessness: Promising Practices in the Field November 2011 This Research Brief is available on the Internet at:http://aspe.hhs.gov/hsp/11/FamilyHomelessness/rb.shtml

About this Research Brief This paper explores the distribution of plan AVs for individuals enrolled in employer-sponsored insurance.  This brief was written by PierreL. Yong, M.D., M.P.H., John Bertko, F.S.A., M.A.A.A., Richard Kronick, Ph.D.

At Risk:  Pre-Existing Conditions Could Affect 1 in 2 Americans: 129 Million People Could Be Denied Affordable Coverage Without Health Reform November 2011 This report is available on the Internet at:http://aspe.hhs.gov/health/reports/2012/pre-existing/index.shtml

Program and Collection Procedures

Under the Affordable Care Act, starting in 2014, Americans cannot be denied coverage, be charged significantly higher premiums, be subjected to an extended waiting period, or have their benefits curtailed by insurance companies because of some type of pre-existing health condition.

This policy guidance provides information on the final set of data standards for race, ethnicity, sex, primary language, and disability status as required by Section 4302 of the Affordable Care Act. Supporting guidance on implementation of the standards is provided for inclusion on all population health surveys, to the extent practicable, conducted or sponsored by HHS

Additional Information FDA Report:  "A Review of FDA's Approach to Medical Product Shortages"  

The report contains the results of actuarial and policy analyses of the CLASS Act and the legal analysis of various benefit plan options. This report contains important findings that will help advance the cause of charting a path to affordable and sustainable long-term care options. [48 PDF pages]

U.S. Department of Health and Human Services October 2011 Prepared by: The Offices of CLASS, ASPE, and the General Counsel

ASPE ISSUE BRIEF Drug Testing Welfare Recipients: Recent Proposals and Continuing Controversies October 2011 This Issue Brief is available on the Internet at:http://aspe.hhs.gov/hsp/11/DrugTesting/ib.shtml

In the years since welfare reform transformed federal cash assistance for the poor into to the time-limited, work-focused Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) Program, the issue of substance abuse among welfare recipients has arisen periodically as a policy and programmatic concern.

This is the final report of a project that assesses the need for developing and fielding another national disability survey data collection effort.

This is the final report of a project that assesses the need for developing and fielding another national disability survey data collection effort.

By: Emily Sama-Miller and Jacqueline Kauff Mathematica Policy Research