Reports & Analysis

This report examines the development of the ACO model, focusing on Colorado, Massachusetts, Minnesota, North Carolina, Oregon, Vermont, and Washington.

A new report by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation estimates the effects of the Affordable Care Act (ACA) on states, in particular the increases in insurance coverage, subsidies in the exchanges, Medicaid enrollment and federal spending.

More than nine of 10 leaders in health and health care policy believe the Affordable Care Act sets the right course for health reform, according to a new survey by the Commonwealth Fund.

Principal Findings. Among high-cost beneficiaries, health was the predominant predictor of costs, with most physician and practice and many market factors (including provider supply) insignificant or weakly related to cost.

The brief assesses middle-ground solutions to payment and delivery system reform by looking at transitional payment reforms that enable health care providers to deliver improvements in cost and quality to payers and patients while the providers foucus on building capacity to transition into a comprehensive delivery reform system that meet their needs.

According to a new analysis by the Department of Health and Human Services, 50 to 129 million (19 to 50 percent of) non-elderly Americans have some type of pre-existing health condition.

A new program provides coverage to people with costly preexisting health conditions. To boost enrollment, the government has already made changes.

This issue brief examines data for all states on changes in private employer premiums and deductibles for 2003 and 2009.