An Overview of New CMS Data on the Number of Adults Enrolled in the ACA Medicaid Expansion February 2, 2015 Issue Brief New preliminary data from the Medicaid Budget and Expenditure System (MBES) released by CMS details for the first time the number of adults enrolled in Medicaid under the new Affordable Care Act (ACA) Medicaid expansion category. This issue brief provides an overview of the new data as well as how it differs from the Performance Indicator data.
Measuring Long-Term Services and Supports Rebalancing February 2, 2015 Fact Sheet This fact sheet provides a brief overview of quality measures related to long-term services and supports rebalancing.
Rebalancing in Capitated Medicaid Managed Long-Term Services and Supports Programs: Key Issues from a Roundtable Discussion on Measuring Performance February 2, 2015 Issue Brief This issue brief summarizes the key issues related to measuring performance in LTSS rebalancing identified and discussed by participants in an expert roundtable meeting on November 13, 2014.
Medicare’s Role in Health-Care Payment Reform January 29, 2015 News Release In his latest column for The Wall Street Journal’s Think Tank, Drew Altman explores whether Secretary Burwell’s announcement this week about Medicare’s payment reform initiative is another sign that the public sector is becoming the engine driving payment and delivery reform. All previous columns by Drew Altman are available online.
Medicare’s Role in Health-Care Payment Reform January 29, 2015 Perspective In this column for The Wall Street Journal’s Think Tank, Drew Altman explores whether Secretary Burwell’s announcement this week about Medicare’s payment reform initiative is another sign that the public sector is becoming the engine driving payment and delivery reform.
New Kaiser Survey Finds Eleven Million Newly Insured Adults As of Mid-December, But Nearly Half Who Remained Uninsured One Year After Full Implementation of the Affordable Care Act Were Eligible for Medicaid or Marketplace Tax Credits January 29, 2015 News Release Many Of The Remaining Uninsured Say They Didn’t Seek Coverage or Considered It Too Expensive, While Others Were Told (Or Believed) They Were Not Eligible About 11 million adults had become newly insured under the Affordable Care Act by mid-December 2014, according to a new national survey of more than…
Adults who Remained Uninsured at the End of 2014 January 29, 2015 Issue Brief This report, based on the 2014 Kaiser Survey of Low-Income Americans and the ACA, profiles the adult population that remained uninsured as of Fall 2014. It describes the characteristics of this population, examines why they lack insurance coverage and reasons for not enrolling in ACA coverage, and provides information on the coverage options available to the remaining uninsured and their plans for obtaining coverage in 2015.
Medicaid Per Enrollee Spending: Variation Across States January 28, 2015 Issue Brief This brief examines variation in spending per enrollee across eligibility groups, across states and over time, as well as the correlation between spending per enrollee in the base year and the annual growth rate in the following years. It examines the importance of variation in spending in the context of the different proposals to change Medicaid’s financial structure.
Proposed Medicaid Expansion in Tennessee January 28, 2015 Fact Sheet This fact sheet describes Tennessee’s 1115 waiver demonstration project, Insure Tennessee, which expands the State’s Medicaid program under the Affordable Care Act.
Kaiser Health Policy News Index: January 2015 January 28, 2015 Poll Finding The January 2015 Kaiser Health Policy News Index finds fewer than 3 in 10 Americans report paying attention to recent health policy news stories; considerably less than the shares who report following national and international news stories such as tension between the police and the mayor in New York City and the Charlie Hebdo attack in Paris.