Reports & Analysis

In two years California hopes to have most physicians using electronic health records state-wide and to have those records linked through a health information exchange system, using a provider directory services database.

This is an open letter to New York Governor Cuomo, Senator Skelos and Speaker Silver urging them to quickly enact legislation establishing New York’s Health Insurance Exchange.

This report explains what the acturial values mean for consumers in the ACA.

This report projects the state-by-state impact of converting Medicaid into a block grant and eliminating the planned expansion of the program by repealing the health reform law, as called for under the House Budget Plan.

This brief explores the challenges regulators will face, considers the consequences of the health reform law’s risk adjustment provisions, and analyzes the merits of different risk adjustment strategies.

The Health Policy Institute of Ohio has released Ohio Medicaid Basics 2011. Updated every two years to coincide with the state biennium budget, Ohio Medicaid Basics provides an expansive overview of the Medicaid program in Ohio.

This toolkit is part of a series designed to share examples, templates, experiences, and lessons learned from Massachusetts’ implementation of health reform with other states beginning their own health reform planning efforts.

A compilation of resources Kansas Health Benefit Exchange Work Group has used to start planning the operations of their exchange.

A memo from the Kansas Health Institute to the Kansas Health Benefit Exchange Background Research Work group outlining estimates for six basic Exchange planning questions.

The report is a draft white paper that will assist state policymakers with the implementation of health insurance exchanges and discuss the issues surrounding the roles and responsibilities of navigators and producers within the exchange.