Reports & Analysis

The Center for Studying Health System Change released a report funded by the National Institute of Health Care Reform focusing on how health insurance exchanges can promote healthy competition among insurers in the exchanges and in turn provide better health outcomes, at a lower total cost.

The National Association of Medicaid Directors (NAMD) has released a report calling for an improved Medicaid program better designed to address the challenges that lie ahead for states in managing a sustainable Medicaid program.

This report offers an analysis of information on enrollment trends, premiums, and medical costs provided by carriers to the Washington State Office of the Insurance Commissioner supplemented with additional carrier and association information reported to the National Association of Insurance Commissioners and the U.S. Department of Labor.

Deloitte Center for Health Solutions constructed plausible scenarios to identify cost and saving drivers and provide a range of the estimated per person fiscal impact to states due to ACA requirements

The National Association of Medicaid Directors (NAMD) submitted a letter commenting on the three proposed regulations issued on August 12, 2011.

This brief focuses on electronic information-sharing systems that Illinois is building or adapting to improve care coordination for children with or at risk of developmental delays.

2011 Medicaid basics summary for the state of Ohio.

This SHADAC brief highlights what is new in the release of the Small Area Health Insurance Estimates (SAHIE), an overview of how the SAHIE estimates are developed, and comparing the SAHIE model-based methodology to the American Community Survey (ACS). 

Centers for Health Care Strategies has published a report authored by Manatt Health Solutions that analyzes Medicaid managed care contracts in six states in light of their relevance to exchange Qualified Health Plan (QHP) certification.

This report from the Young Invincibles and DEMOS found that the rate of full-time workers between 18 and 24 years old with employer-sponsored insurance dropped 12.8 percent over the past decade, while dropping 8.5 percent for workers ages 25 to 34.