Reports & Analysis

This brief describes global and episodic bundling and outlines considerations for state Medicaid agencies when evaluating potential implementation, including the relevance of these strategies for Medicaid agencies employing managed care strategies.

This brief discusses the issues that states will face in making decisions about how to structure health insurance exchanges and health insurance markets.
 

The Bipartisan Policy Center's Task Force on Delevery System Reform and Health IT report discusses barriers that hinder the adoption, use, and alignment health information technology.

This Blue Cross Blue Shield of Massachusetts Foundation report provides an update on trends in Massachusetts since fall 2006 and an overview of the circumstances of working-age adults in the state as of fall 2010 that provides a baseline for understanding changes under the ACA in Massachusetts.

This report is the Kaiser Family Foundation's annual 50-state survey of Medicaid and CHIP eligibility rules; enrollment and renewal procedures; and cost-sharing practices.

This report explores models of collaboration among state officials in order to inform exchange directors about options for sustainable ongoing support.

This issue brief examines whether there is a correlation between the progress that states have made toward establishing the health insurance exchanges called for under the Affordable Care Act (ACA), and the expected benefits for state residents.

This table is a one-stop resource that shows states' request for an adjustment to the MLR standard, a consumer protection provision under the ACA. The HHS Secretary may determine that a state meeting the 80% Medical Loss Ratio standard may destabilize the individual market. In order to qualify for this adjustment, a state must demonstrate that requiring insurers in its individual market to meet the 80% MLR has a likelihood of destabilizing the individual market and result in fewer choices for consumers.

This report offers states  insight on how to coordinate Medicaid and health insurance exchange markets.

This report examines the critical need for risk adjustment in programs serving persons dually eligible for both Medicare and Medicaid and describes federal and state experience implementing risk adjustment models.