Reports

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

by David Stapleton, Ph.D., Gina Livermore, Ph.D. and Adam Tucker of The Lewin Group, Inc., for the Office of the Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation, Department of Health & Human Services, July 25, 1997. Kelleen Kaye and Gilbert Crouse were the Project Officers.  

U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Autonomy of Abandonment: Changing Perspectives on Delegation Donna L. Wagner, Ph.D., Pamela Nadash, B.Phil., and Charles Sabatino, J.D. National Council on the Aging July 1997 PDF Version (82 PDF pages)

This report describes the experience of selected state governments in regulating provider-owned health care delivery systems that accept insurance risk for the provision or arrangement of health care services. We refer to these entities as Provider-Sponsored Organizations (PSOs).

STATE REGULATORY EXPERIENCE WITH PROVIDER-SPONSORED ORGANIZATIONS FINAL REPORT Prepared under HHS Contract No. 100-93-0012 for: The US Department of Health and Human Services Office of the Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation

By Allen W. Harden of the Chapin Hall Center for Children at the University of Chicago and Rebecca L. Clark and Karen Maguire of The Urban Institute for the Office of the Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, June 20, 1997.

Volume I. NARRATIVE REPORTS IntroductionThis report presents the results of work pursued by analysts at two separate research institutions in a collaboration designed to provide the best information available to describe the children living without a parent in kinship care arrangements in the United States.

The 1997 Denver Summit of the Eight provided an opportunity to foster a shift in our thinking about what it means to be "elderly," to focus on incentives for fostering active aging, and to identify potential areas of international collaboration for future research and information sharing.

by Ann Rosewater, Deputy Assistant Secretary for Human Services Policy, Office of the Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation

U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Active Aging: A Shift in the Paradigm May 1997 PDF Version (17 PDF pages)

Authors: Thomas M. Fraker Lucia A. Nixon Jan L. Losby Carol S. Prindle John F. Else Submitted to: Iowa Department of Human Services Division of Economic Assistance

[Click here to download a zipped WordPerfect 5.1 version of this report] A Report to the U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services

This report summarizes the insights and conclusions drawn from a project to asses unmet needs for supply-side information on the health system. The project focused on identifying how information needs associated with a changing health care system are perceived by providers, insurers, purchasers, consumers, and government at various levels. The project is intended to help the HHS Data Council.

This report summarizes the insights and conclusions drawn from a project to asses unmet needs for supply-side information on the health system. The project focused on identifying how information needs associated with a changing health care system are perceived by providers, insurers, purchasers, consumers, and government at various levels.

INTRODUCTION This is the second edition of an annual report from HHS on trends in the well-being of our nation's children and youth. The report presents the most recent and reliable estimates on more than 80 indicators of well-being.

Draft for Public Comment  Information Policy Committee National Information Infrastructure Task Force"Executive SummaryThe information revolution is underway.

This is a limited analytic study of the role of reinsurance (and similar coverages) in three insurance markets: primary health insurance coverage offered by indemnity insurance companies; health insurance coverage offered by health maintenance organizations; and health benefits coverage offered by employer-sponsored self-insured plans.

U.S. Department of Health and Human Services

Laudan Y. Aron and Krista K. Olson The Urban Institute March 1997

A How-to Guide Work First How to Implement an Employment-Focused Approach to Welfare Reform Amy Brown Manpower Demonstration Research Corporation

Laudan Y. Aron and Krista K. Olson The Urban Institute March 1997 The research reported here was prepared under contract with the Office of the Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, with additional support from the Office of Community Services and the National Institute of Justice.

U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Assessment of the Policy Implications of Alternative Functional Definitions of Disability for Children: Final Report Ruth E.K. Stein, M.D. Albert Einstein College of Medicine March 1997 PDF Version (50 PDF pages)

Catherine Hawes, Angela Greene, Merry Wood, and Cynthia Woodsong

Continuing Care Retirement Communities (CCRCs) are presently becoming a more viable option for seekers of long-term care for the elderly. CCRCs have been recognized for their unique strategy of combining various levels of health care within one community setting, as well as their potential for providing cost-effective care.

Catherine Hawes, Angela Greene, Merry Wood, and Cynthia Woodsong Research Triangle Institute

Foreword The Department is pleased to present Performance Improvement 1997: Evaluation Activities of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services--the second annual report documenting the evaluation efforts of all the HHS agencies and offices.

U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Continuing Care Retirement Communities: A Background and Summary of Current Issues Jacquelyn Sanders U.S. Department of Health and Human Services February 24, 1997 PDF Version (40 PDF pages)

  U.S. Department of Health and Human Services

This compendium is published by the Office of Disability, Aging and Long Term Care Policy within the Office of the Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation/HHS. It summarizes the status of current research, the results of research projects sponsored from 1992 1996, and highlights future research plans. Previous editions of this booklet were issued in 1988 and 1992.

As long-term care expenditures have risen, policymakers have sought ways to control costs while maintaining consumer satisfaction. Concurrently, there is increasing interest within the aging and disability communities in consumer-directed care.

To better understand the effect of managed care on people with disabilities, staff from the Office of the Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, in collaboration with the Health Care Financing Administration, have developed research and evaluation efforts focused on managed care and people with disabilities.

Pertaining to The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) of 1996 (P.L. 104-191)