Reports & Analysis

This study adopted a broad view of health care expenditures which includes both direct and indirect costs, as well as items such as functional foods and nutritional supplements, complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) goods and services, and the imputed value of unpaid supervisory care provided to sick people by family and friends.

BCBSMA launched the Alternative Quality Contract (AQC) in 2009 to move away from fee-for-service reimbursement models, with the goal of improving quality and outcomes while simultaneously slowing the growth of health care spending.

This presentation discusses current enrollment and spending associated with New York's Medicaid program and lays out the challenges ahead.

Provides an update on the status of state legislation establishing exchanges around the country as of April 26, 2011.

Twenty-four percent of Americans ages 18 to 26 were uninsured in the first four months of the year, down from 28 percent last year, according to a Gallup poll out May 4, 2011.

This brief outlines interviews from stakeholders in states with high-ranking and low-ranking health system performance. Findings suggest there are market, political, and cultural characteristics that can help or hinder health system improvement.

The pros and cons of capping federal Medicaid payouts to states.

CaliforniaHealthline asked experts and stakeholders to weigh in and offer suggestions to mitigate the ever growing health care challenges for California's local and state governments.

The Center for Healthcare Research and Transformation (CHRT) at the University of Michigan released a brief summarizing major requirements and policy choices for states between now and 2014.

Changes in Health Care Financing & Organization's (HCFO) produced a findings brief on how the minimum medical loss ratio (MLR) provisions of the Affordable Care Act (ACA) will impact the individual market for health insurance.