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Survey of Detroit Area Residents — Toplines
Survey of Detroit Area Residents — ToplinesThe Survey of Detroit Area Residents, the 18th in the Washington Post/Kaiser Family Foundation/Harvard University partnership series, was conducted by telephone from November 5 to 22, 2009 among 1,211 respondents age 18 and older living in the Detroit area (defined as Wayne, Oakland, and…
Poll Finding Read MoreBuilding an Express Lane Eligibility Initiative: A Roadmap of Key Decisions for States
The Children’s Health Insurance Program Reauthorization Act of 2009 (CHIPRA) provides states new options to reach and enroll the estimated 5 million eligible but uninsured low-income children into Medicaid and CHIP. One key tool provided to states by the law is Express Lane Eligibility (ELE), which allows state Medicaid and…
Issue Brief Read MoreMedicare Advantage 2010 Data Spotlights
Now Available: 2011 Medicare Advantage Spotlight: Plan Availability and Premiums The Kaiser Family Foundation has issued a series of data spotlight looking at the 2010 Medicare Advantage plan options and trends around the Medicare Advantage plan. These spotlights were prepared by a team of researchers at Mathematica Policy Research Inc.…
Report Read MorePulling it Together: An Actuarial Rorschach Test
Drew Altman, Larry Levitt, Gary Claxton My colleagues have worked on this column with me and I invited them to join me as authors. As with pretty much every other discussion of health care going back to the days of Roosevelt, the great reform debate of 2009 (and now 2010)…
Perspective Read MoreMedicare Advantage 2011 Data Spotlight: Plan Availability and Premiums
This Medicare Advantage Data Spotlight provides an overview of recent changes made to the Medicare Advantage program and examines trends in plan participation, premiums and certain benefits. About 12 million people, or nearly a quarter of the Medicare population, are enrolled in Medicare Advantage, the privately administered plans that…
Report Read MoreWaiting for Economic Recovery, Poised for Health Care Reform: A Mid-Year Update for FY 2011 – Looking Forward to FY 2012
This report, based on structured discussions in November and December 2010 with leading Medicaid directors, augments the findings from the most recent comprehensive 50-state Medicaid budget survey to provide a mid-year 2011 update on state Medicaid issues. As they prepare their fiscal 2012 budgets, many states, some under new gubernatorial…
Report Read MorePop Quiz: Assessing Americans’ Familiarity With the Health Care Law
The Affordable Care Act (ACA) is coming up on a year old, but in the midst of continuing debate over the merits of the landmark health care overhaul, how well do Americans understand what the new law will actually do? As the 112th Congress prepared to take office and the…
Poll Finding Read MoreShared Medical Decision Making: We’re in This Together
In recent years, awareness of the patient’s important role in managing his or her own care has been steadily growing—fed not only by such trends as the proliferation of health information on the internet and direct-to-consumer advertising, but also by the emerging science of patient-centered decision making. One way to…
Event Read MoreKaiser Health Tracking Poll — March 2012
As the oral arguments on the Affordable Care Act (ACA) begin in two weeks before the Supreme Court, the March Kaiser Health Tracking Poll finds that Americans’ views on the case mirror their views on the health reform law and that they expect parts of the ACA to continue whatever…
Poll Finding Read MoreMassachusetts’ Demonstration to Integrate Care and Align Financing for Dual Eligible Beneficiaries
Massachusetts is the first state to finalize a memorandum of understanding (MOU) with the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) to test CMS’s capitated financial alignment model for beneficiaries who are dually eligible for Medicare and Medicaid, with enrollment beginning on April 1, 2013. Starting in 2013, CMS will…
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