State Health Policy: Publications

State Health Insurance Markets and Reforms

"Selection in Massachusetts' Commonwealth Care Program: Lessons for State Basic Health Plans" (February 2012)
"Association Health Plans and Community-Rated Small Group Health Insurance in Washington State" (September 2011)
"Evaluation of Healthy San Francisco" (August 2011)
"Medicaid Eligibility Determination Under the Affordable Care Act: Challenges for States" (April 2011)
"Evaluation of Healthy San Francisco" Executive Summary (August 2011)
"Participation in Healthy San Francisco: Trends in Enrollment and Retention" (February 2011)
"Healthy Indiana Plan: Lessons for Health Reform." Indiana Health Reform, Issue Brief #1 (January 2011)
"Simplification of Health and Social Services Enrollment and Eligibility: Lessons for California from Interviews in Four States" (November 2010)
"Understanding the Healthy San Francisco Medical Home and How It Functions for Different Patient Populations" (September 2010)
"Covering Low-Income Childless Adults in Medicaid: Experiences from Selected States" (August 2010)
"Study of Rhode Island's Uninsured: Current Costs and Future Opportunities" (March 2010)
"A Viable Alternative to Private Managed Care Models in Medicaid: Performance of Oklahoma's Primary Care Case Management Program in Controlling Preventable Hospitalizations" (June 2009)
“State Policies to Encourage High-Deductible and Limited-Benefit Health Plans: Costs, Constituents, and Concerns” (March 2009)
"SoonerCare 1115 Waiver Evaluation" (January 2009)
"SoonerCare Managed Care History and Performance: 1115 Waiver Evaluation" (January 2009)
"Leading the Way? Maine's Initial Experience in Expanding Coverage Through Dirigo Health Reforms" (November 2007)
"Improving Processes and Increasing Efficiency: The Case for States Participating in a Process Improvement Collaborative" (September 2007)

Modeling Changes

“Reducing Hospital Readmissions in New York State: A Simulation Analysis of Alternative Payment Incentives" (September 2011)
“Analytic Support For Washington Citizens' Work Group on Health Care: Evaluation of Health Care Reform Proposals” (March 2009)
“Analysis of Reform Models for Extending Health Care Coverage in New Mexico” (March 2008)

Health Insurance Regulations

“Designing an Exchange: A Toolkit for State Policymakers" (January 2011)
“Considering a Health Insurance Exchange: Lessons from the Rhode Island Experience” (June 2009)
"Minnesota’s Health Insurance Exchange Study" (March 2008)
"Quantitative and Comparative Analysis of Reform Options for Extending Health Care Coverage in New Mexico" (July 2007)
"Options for Expanding Coverage in Missouri: State Offer of a Small-Group Product" (July 2007)

Health Care Costs

"Massachusetts Health Care Cost Trends: Trends in Health Expenditures" (June 2011)
"Massachusetts Health Care Cost Trends: Price Variation in Health Care Services" (May 2011, revised June 2011)
"Projected Health Care Spending in Minnesota" (July 2010)
"Provider Payment: Trends and Methods in the Massachusetts Health Care System" (February 2010)
“Analysis of Financial Performance and Cost Shifting in West Virginia’s General Acute Hospitals” (2008)
"Experience from 2006: State Health Care Expenditures" (January 2008)
"Experience from 2005: State Health Care Expenditures" (February 2007)

Programs for Children

"State-Based Advocacy as a Tool for Expanding Children's Coverage: Lessons from Site Visits to Six IAC Grantee States" (July 2010)
"Synthesis of 10 Case Studies: Exploring Medicaid and SCHIP Enrollment Trends and Their Links to Policy and Practice"(April 2009)
"SCHIP Children: How Long Do They Stay, and Where Do They Go?" (January 2009)
"SCHIP Children: How Long Do They Stay and Where Do They Go?" (January 2009)
"Improving Public Coverage for Children: Lessons from CKF in Washington" (November 2008)
"Improving Public Coverage for Children: Lessons from CKF in Colorado" (November 2008)
"Health Care Access and Use Among Low-Income Children on Subsidized Insurance Program in California" (May 2008)
"Case Study of Illinois: Exploring Links Between Policy, Practice and the Trends in New Medicaid/SCHIP Enrollments" (January 2008)
“Three Independent Evaluations of Healthy Kids Programs Find Dramatic Gains in Well-Being of Children and Families” (November 2007)
"SCHIP at 10: A Synthesis of the Evidence on Substitution of SCHIP for Other Coverage" (September 2007)
“Increasing Children’s Coverage and Access: A Decade of SCHIP Lessons” (September 2007)
"Case Study of Oregon: Exploring Medicaid and SCHIP Enrollment Trends and Their Links to Policy and Practice" (August 2007)
"Case Study of Missouri: Exploring Medicaid and SCHIP Enrollment Trends and Their Links to Policy and Practice" (August 2007)
"Stable Coverage Benefits Healthy Kids Children" (June 2007)
"Evolution of State Outreach Efforts Under SCHIP" (summer 2007)
"Case Study of Michigan: Exploring Medicaid and SCHIP Enrollment Trends and Their Links to Policy and Practice" (May 2007)
"Santa Clara County Children Health Initiative Improves Children's Health" (March 2007)
"SCHIP at 10: A Synthesis of the Evidence on Access to Care in SCHIP" (January 2007)

Meeting Needs of Special Populations

"Managing the Care of Dual Eligible Beneficiaries: A Review of Selected State Programs and Special Needs Plans" (June 2011)
"Effects of a Discharge Planning Program on Medicaid Coverage of State Prisoners with Serious Mental Illness" (January 2011)
"Examining Effectiveness of Medical Interpreters in Emergency Departments for Spanish-Speaking Patients with Limited English Proficiency: Results of a Randomized Controlled Trial" (August 2010)
"Use of Out-of-Home Care Among a Statewide Population of Children and Youth Enrolled in Medicaid" (February 2011)
"Medicaid Beneficiaries Using Mental Health or Substance Abuse Services in Fee-for-Service Plans in 13 States, 2003" (September 2010)
"Value for the Money Spent? Exploring the Relationship Between Medicaid Costs and Quality" (August 2010)
"Establishing and Maintaining Medicaid Eligibility Upon Release from Public Institutions" (June 2010)
"Mental Disorders and Service Use Among Welfare and Disability Program Participants in Fee for-Service Medicaid" (May 2010)
“Chartbook: Medicaid Pharmacy Benefit Use and Reimbursement in 2006” (May 2010)
"The New Jersey Medicaid Program: Some Comparisons to Other States" (March 2010)
"Implementation of Mental Health Parity: Lessons from California" (December 2009)
"Enhanced Primary Care Case Management Programs in Medicaid: Issues and Options for States" (November 2009)
"Early Implementation Experiences of State MFP Programs" (November 2009)
"Ensuring Access to Medicaid for Individuals with Mental Illnessess Reentering Their Communities from Prison. A Program Model from Oklahoma" (October 2009)
"Review of SoonerCare Behavioral Health Services" (September 2009)
“Chartbook: Medicaid Pharmacy Benefit Use and Reimbursement in 2005” (June 2009)
"Evaluation of a Medicaid Psychotropic Drug Management Program in Utah" (September 2008)
"Administration of Mental Health Services by Medicaid Agencies" (2007)
"Medicaid Managed Long-Term Care: Challenges and Opportunities for State Policymakers and Low-Income Individuals" (October 2007)
"Medicaid Eligibility After Release from State Institutions" (September 2007)
"The Evolving SNP Marketplace and the Role of States" (September 2007)
"Improving Processes and Increasing Efficiency: The Case for States Participating in a Process Improvement Collaborative" (September 2007)
"New Medicaid Drug Use and Cost Data Highlight Issues for States After Medicare Part D" (June 2007)
"Integration of Medicare and Medicaid Through SNPS: Opportunities for States" (May 2007)
"Connecticut General Assembly Testimony on Senate Bill 198: An Act Concerning the Availability of Interpreter Services Under the Medicaid Program" (February 2007)

Public Health Initiatives

“Successful Strategies for Educating Hard-to-Reach Populations: Lessons Learned from Massachusetts' Train-the-Trainer Project Using the Helping You Take Care of Yourself Curriculum" (March 2011)
“Changes in Cigarette Prices in Massachusetts Following State and Federal Cigarette Excise Tax Increases” (February 2010)
"Healthy People (HP) 2010 Disparity Elimination Goals: Case Studies of State Efforts" (June 2009)
“Assessment of the Massachusetts Tobacco Control Program Quitline: Awareness, Reach, Service Delivery, and Outcomes” (December 2009)
"Characteristics, Access, Utilization, Satisfaction, and Outcomes of Healthy Start Participants in Eight Sites" (July 2009)
"Assessment of Disparities in Potentially Avoidable Hospitalizations of Maryland Medicare Patients" (December 2008)
“Differences in Hospitalizations for Ambulatory Care Sensitive Conditions Among Maryland Medicare Beneficiaries—2006” (December 2008)
"State Efforts to Address the Healthy People 2010 Goal to Eliminate Health Disparities: Two Case Studies" (September 2008)
"Tools for Developing, Implementing, and Evaluating State Policy" (April 2008)