Reports

By The Lewin Group ForThe Office of the Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation, Office of Health Policy, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services

  U.S. Department of Health and Human Services

This is the final report for the project, "Role of Home and Community-Based Services in Meeting the Health Care Needs of People with AIDS," conducted by Mathematica Policy Research, Inc. for the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Office of the Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation (ASPE).

U.S. Department of Health and Human Services The Role of Home and Community-Based Services in Meeting the Health Care Needs of People with AIDS: Final Report

Contract #100-96-0011 Delivery Order No. 2 Final Report Submitted To:The Office of the Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation Office of Health Policy U.S. Department of Health and Human Services

TEENAGE PARENT DEMONSTRATION Report on Results of Long-Term Follow-up, Executive Summary Moving into Adulthood: Were the Impacts of Mandatory Programs for Welfare-Dependent Teenaged Parents Sustained After the Program

Submitted by: Mathematica Policy Research, Inc P.O. Box 2393 Princeton, NJ 08543-2393 (609) 799-3535 Project Director: Ellen Eliason Kisker

ForewordPerformance Improvement 1998: Evaluation Activities of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Servicesis the third annual report summarizing evaluation efforts by the Department's agencies and offices during the past fiscal year.

This article appeared in the American Rehabilitation (Volume 24, Number 3, pp27-30). [14 PDF pages]

U.S. Department of Health and Human Services

U.S. Department of Health and Human Services The Impact of Female Caregivers' Employment Status on Patterns of Formal and Informal Eldercare

by Kimball Lewis, Marilyn Ellwood, and John L. Czajka Mathematica Policy Research Inc. for the Office of Health Policy Office of the Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation U.S. Department of Health and Human Services  

by Leighton Ku and Bethany Kessler of The Urban Institute.

EXAMINING SUBSTITUTION: STATE STRATEGIES TO LIMIT CROWD OUT IN THE ERA OF CHILDREN’S HEALTH INSURANCE EXECUTIVE SUMMARY

By Anna Fallieras, Mary Jo O'Brien, Susanna Ginsburg, and Amy Westpfahl of the The Lewin Group for Office of Health Policy of the Office of the Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, December 9, 1997. The Project Officers for ASPE were Cheryl Austein and Caroline Taplin

  U.S. Department of Health and Human Services

Executive Summary The National Evaluation of Welfare-to-Work Strategies

This report describes selected trends in the assisted living industry. It is intended to supplement ongoing research being conducted as part of the National Study of Assisted Living.

PrefaceThis chartbook examines demographic and other characteristics of insured and uninsured children in the U.S. It is based on data from the March 1997 Current Population Survey (CPS) and reflects children’s insurance status during calendar year 1996. For the purposes of this chartbook, the term “children” applies to all U.S. citizens and non-citizen residents under age 18.

The National Evaluation of Welfare-to-Work Strategies Evaluating Two Welfare-to-Work Program Approaches: Two-Year Findings on the Labor Force Attachment and Human Capital Development Programs in Three Sites

U.S. Department of Health and Human Services

Charts from Tabulations by ASPE Office of the Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation Department of Health and Human Services Prepared by Gene Moyer 202-690-7861 Author: Gene Moyer

U.S. Department of Health and Human Services

Many children with special health care needs depend on the health and supportive services provided by Medicaid. It is important that policymakers have a sound understanding of these children's patterns of health care use, especially given the shift to managed care.

U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Children with Severe Chronic Conditions on Medicaid Brian Burwell, William Crown, Ph.D., and John Drabek, Ph.D. The MEDSTAT Group November 1997 PDF Version (40 PDF pages)

by Robert G. Wood and John Burghardt Mathematica Policy Research, Inc. for the Office of the Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation  

by Robert G. Wood and John Burghardt Mathematica Policy Research, Inc. for the Office of the Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation

U.S. Department of Health and Human Services

This final report provides practical advice to State program administrators regarding the implementation of consumer-directed personal assistance (CD-PAS) programs and intermediary service organizations (ISOs).

U.S. Department of Health and Human Services

As part of its ongoing research program in public health infrastructure, The Office of the Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation (ASPE) of the Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS) commissioned The Lewin Group to study the relationship between public health laboratories (PHLs) and managed care organizations (MCOs).

Prepared by Roy Ahn, Daniel S. Gaylin, Alison Keiller, Daniel N. Mendelson, Adil Moiduddin, and Robert J. Rubin, M.D. of The Lewin Group under the direction of Cheryl Austein, Project Officer for the Office of Health Policy, within the Office of the Assistant Secretary forPlanning and Evaluation (ASPE), Department of Health and Human Services. October 6, 1997 "

U.S. Department of Health and Human Services

    Indicators of Welfare Dependence  

This brief was used as a background paper for the October 28, 1997 meeting of the Interagency Work Group on Welfare Reform and Persons with Disabilities. [8 PDF pages]

This literature review examines empirical evidence on health care coverage, employment, and public program participation among people with disabilities.

Foreword

U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Welfare Reform and Disability: Issues and HHS Activities Interagency Work Group on Welfare Reform and People with Disabilities October 1997 PDF Version (8 PDF pages)

U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Exploratory Study of Health Care Coverage and Employment of People with Disabilities: Literature Review

This report was prepared by Clifford Goodman, Roy Ahn, Rick Harwood, Deborah Ringel, Kareen Savage, Daniel Mendelson, and Robert Rubin of The Lewin Group. Other staff that contributed to the report included Ansari Ameen, Dawn Bartoszewicz, Timothy Field, Doug Fountain, and George Steinfels of The Lewin Group.

Recommendations of the Secretary of Health and Human Services, pursuant to section 264 of the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 Submitted to: The Committee on Labor and Human Resources and the Committee on Finance of the Senate

U.S. Department of Health and Human Services

The objectives of this study were to establish a reliable baseline estimate of the number and distribution of subacute care units in licensed nursing homes; to estimate the bed capacity of these units in 1995; and to sketch the characteristics of the nursing homes where these units were located.

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U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Trends in Special Care: The 1995 National Nursing Home Census of Sub-Acute Units Joel Leon, PhD, Michael Cheng, PhD, and Jennifer Dunbar, MHS Project HOPE Center for Health Affairs September 1997 PDF Version (24 PDF pages)

A. BACKGROUND AND PURPOSES