Assessing the Impact of Parity in the Large Group Employer-Sponsored Insurance Market: Final Report. ABSTRACT
Summary : The Paul Wellstone and Pete Domenici Mental Health Parity and Addiction Equity Act of 2008 (MHPAEA) ensures that large group health plans and health insurance issuers offer comparable benefits for mental health (MH) and substance use disorder (SUD) services and medical/surgical services.
Assessing the Impact of Parity in the Large Group Employer-Sponsored Insurance Market: Final Report. STANDARD ABSTRACT
This study assessed the impact of the Paul Wellstone and Pete Domenici Mental Health Parity and Addiction Equity Act of 2008 (MHPAEA) on the private, large group employer-sponsored insurance market. The impact of MHPAEA on mental health (MH) and substance use disorder (SUD) utilization and spending outcomes was assessed using interrupted time seri
Assessing the Impact of Parity in the Large Group Employer-Sponsored Insurance Market: Final Report. ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
Truven Health Analytics, an IBM company, prepared this report under contract to the Office of the Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation (ASPE), U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) (HHSP233201600023I/HHSP23337002T). The authors appreciate the guidance of D.E.B. Potter and Laurel Fuller (ASPE), Emily Jones (National Institut
Assessing the Impact of Parity in the Large Group Employer-Sponsored Insurance Market: Final Report
Norah Mulvaney-Day, Brent Gibbons, and Shums Alikhan
TruvenHealth Analytics, an IBM company
February 2019
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Indian Health Service Programs—A Retention Analysis
This study expands upon the analysis of the National Health Service Corps (NHSC) begun in “Provider Retention in High Need Areas and continued in “The National Health Service Corps: An Extended Analysis” by using the same techniques used in these earlier studies to examine retention patterns in Indian Health providers.. The study finds a
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Promoting Public Benefits Access Through Web-Based Tools and Outreach: A National Scan of Efforts
By: Jacqueline Kauff, Emily Sama-Miller, and Elizabeth Makowsky Mathematica Policy Research
This report provides an overview of benefits access initiatives in every state and of major, privately-developed, benefits access initiatives.
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Volume I: Background, Efforts in Brief, and Related Initiatives PDF format
Evidence Indicates a Range of Challenges for Puerto Rico Health Care System
PuertoRico_Assessment.pdf
Health Insurance Coverage for Americans with Pre Existing Conditions The Impact of the Affordable Care Act
Pre-ExistingConditions.pdf
Advancing Integrated Care: Lessons from Minnesota
Jhamirah M. Howard and Jennifer Baron
Office of the Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation
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Advancing Integrated Care: Lessons from Minnesota
This brief discusses how integrated care has taken shape in the State of Minnesota, highlights findings from a study of beneficiaries in the integrated care program in Minnesota, and discusses how the state is using demonstration authority to further build on this successful model.
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The 1996 National Survey of Homeless Assistance Providers and Clients: A Comparison of Faith-Based and Secular Non-Profit Programs. Appendix B: Ways That Government Financially Supports Faith-Based Social Services
Luis Lugo, Director of the Religion Program at the Pew Charitable Trusts, has developed a nine-point scale in describing the variety of ways that the government can support faith-based agencies in organizations in their delivery of social welfare services. The nine types of government support — ordered from high to low in terms of general pub
The 1996 National Survey of Homeless Assistance Providers and Clients: A Comparison of Faith-Based and Secular Non-Profit Programs. Appendix A: Types of Programs Included in NSHAPC
NSHAPC covered 16 different types of homeless assistance programs, defined as follows:
Improving Employment Outcomes for People with Psychiatric Disorders and Other Disabilities. APPENDIX C: Data and Methodology for the SIPP Analysis
For this analysis, we pooled the 1996, 2001, and 2004 panels of the SIPP, a nationally representative sample of the non-institutionalized civilian population who are 15 years old and older. SIPP respondents are interviewed once every four months for the duration of the survey panel. During each interview, they provide information about the precedi
Improving Employment Outcomes for People with Psychiatric Disorders and Other Disabilities. APPENDIX D: Supplemental Tables for Pre-Application Work Activity and Program Participation of SSDI Applicants and At-Risk Group Members
TABLE D.1 . Employment and Income Characteristics of SSDI Applicants
37-42 Months
Before SSDI
Application
31-36 Months
Before SSDI
Application
25-30 Months
Before SSDI
Application
19-24 Months
Improving Employment Outcomes for People with Psychiatric Disorders and Other Disabilities. APPENDIX B: Methodology for the Literature Searches
In this appendix, we detail the methodology we employed to conduct two targeted literature searches: one on employment programs and outcomes for people with psychiatric disorders and one on employment programs and outcomes for people with other disabilities. The literature search and review process for both searches consisted of five stages: (1) s
Improving Employment Outcomes for People with Psychiatric Disorders and Other Disabilities. APPENDIX A: Evidence Tables
TABLE A.1 . Evidence for Improving Employment Outcomes Through SE: Studies Included in Systematic Reviews
Systematic
Review
Source(s)
Study
Author,
Country a
Study
Design a
Intervention
(sample size) b
