Reports

Paper presented by ASPE at the National Association for Welfare Research and Statistics (NAWRS) 40th Annual Workshop in Scottsdale, AZ August 1, 2000 Revised Nov. 6, 2000(*)

Part 160 Electronic transactions, Health, Health care, Health facilities, Health insurance, Health records, Medicaid, Medical research, Medicare, Reporting and recordkeeping requirements. Part 162

Center for Health Services Research and Policy School of Public Health and Health Services  George Washington University Medical Center  "

INTERIM REPORT prepared by The National Committee on Vital and Health Statistics Workgroup on the National Health Information Infrastructure(1)

As part of the Child Support Performance and Incentive Act of 1998, Congress established a medical child support working group to identify barriers to medical support enforcement and to recommend ways to address them. This report is an effort to provide greater background on one such barrier  the lack of access by many nonresident parents to employment-based health care coverage.

Abt Associates Inc. June 2000 This report was prepared under contract #500-96-0003 between the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), Health Care Financing Administration (HCFA) and Abt Associates Inc.

  U.S. Department of Health and Human Services

U.S. Department of Health and Human Services

A major federally funded initiative has been unfolding over the past two years to help welfare recipients and other low-income Americans move into employment. In 1997, the Balanced Budget Act (BBA) authorized the U.S. Department of Labor to award $3 billion in Welfare-to-Work (WtW) grants to states and local organizations.

Research Objectives

This report reviews and summarizes the research literature on cost-effectiveness of home and community-based services. [32 PDF pages]

This report presents the early implementation findings from HHS' congressionally mandated evaluation of the Department of Labor's Welfare-to-Work Grants Program. Based on a survey of all WtW grantees conducted from November 1999 to February 2000, it provides descriptive information on the status of WtW programs, enrollment levels, job placements, and service structures.

The Adoption and Safe Families Act of 1997 directed the Secretary of HHS to develop this report to Congress. This report was prepared with the input of the Advisory Panel on Kinship Care which met in October 1998 and January 1999. The report has two parts.

This report provides information on departures from assisted living, the reasons for departure, and those resident and facility characteristics that affected the likelihood of various resident outcomes associated with departure.

This booklet provides a statistical portrait of teen participation in 10 of the most prevalent risk behaviors. It focuses on the overall participation in each behavior and in multiple risk-taking.

-Interim Report-"Introduction: The 21st century Vision processThe 21st Century Vision Process

Prepared for:U.S. Department of Health and Human ServicesAdministration for Children and FamiliesOffice of the Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation

IntroductionIn this 1999-2000 Annual Report, after three years of a National Strategy to Prevent Teen Pregnancy, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) is pleased to report that teen pregnancy and birth rates in this country have declined to record low levels.

By: Irma Perez-Johnson Alan Hershey Jeanne Bellotti

Report to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services  by Sharon Willcox Harkness Fellow in Health Care Policy This report is submitted to the Department of Health and Human Services in response to the Task Order “Consumer Protection in Private Insurance: State Implementation and Enforcement Experience” Contract No. HHS-100-97-0005.

The views expressed in this paper are those of the authorand do not represent the position of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. August 1999, revised June 2000

The Adoption and Safe Families Act of 1997 directed the Secretary of HHS to develop this report to Congress. This report was prepared with the input of the Advisory Panel on Kinship Care which met in October 1998 and January 1999. The report has two parts.

U.S. Department of Health and Human Services

U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Residents Leaving Assisted Living: Descriptive and Analytic Results From a National Survey

U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Evaluation of the District of Columbia's Demonstration Program, "Managed Care System for Disabled and Special Needs Children": Final Report

Teen Risk-Taking: A Statistical Portrait by Laura Duberstein Lindberg Scott Boggess Laura Porter Sean Williams June 2000

National Evaluation of Welfare-to-Work Strategies Evaluating Alternative Welfare-to-Work Approaches: Two-Year Impacts for Eleven Programs Executive Summary Prepared for:U.S. Department of Health and Human ServicesAdministration for Children and Families

Steven Lutzky, John Corea, and Lisa Alecxih

U.S. Department of Health and Human Services A Survey of Employers Offering Group Long-Term Care Insurance to Their Employees Final Report

Deborah Lowe Vandell Educational Sciences Institute for Research on Poverty University of WisconsinMadison Barbara Wolfe1

By: Allen L. Schirm John L. Czajka May 17, 2000

This technical assistance workshop was the third in a series of technical assistance workshops hosted by the Chapin Hall Center for Children for participating states in the Child Indicators Initiative. The Office of the Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, sponsors the Advancing States Child Indicator Initiatives Project.

  U.S. Department of Health and Human Services

Child Care Quality: Does it Matter and Does It Need to be Improved? Executive Summary

The Balanced Budget Act of 1997 included a number of changes to Medicare managed care. The newly created Medicare+Choice program differs from its predecessor with regard to payment policies, enrollment and disenrollment policies, and the types of plans that can contract to provide care to Medicare beneficiaries.

Widespread interest in Medicare post-acute care issues, particularly after the Balanced Budget Act (BBA) passed, prompted DALTCP to sponsor an "early indication" qualitative study of the potential effects of the BBA provisions and other related issues.

By: Joseph Waksberg Daniel Levine David Marker

Summaries of Meetings Held with Senior Corporate Managers on Private Employer Strategies and Issues Affecting Health Care Coverage

By: Joseph Waksberg Daniel Levine David Marker Submitted to:U.S. Department of Health and Human ServicesOffice of the Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation

PrologueWe are facing an asthma epidemic. Through newspaper stories and personal experiences, we hear more about asthma every day. A child at school has an asthma attack in the classroom. The radio reports an air pollution alert, warning anyone with breathing problems to stay indoors. The local school board debates a policy on students carrying inhaler medications.