Reports & Analysis

Supplemental payments are a critical source of revenue to hospitals, especially safety-net hospitals. Yet because they are often disconnected from the specific services provided to specific patients, and thereby delinked from the efficiency or quality of the care provided, supplemental payments may in fact run counter to broader value-based purchasing efforts.

This report by the National Association of Insurance and Financial Advisors states that more than one-tenth of health insurance agents reported that they have stopped selling and servicing health care policies for individuals, and nearly 30 percent foresee doing so in the future due to the medical loss ratio requirement in the health care reform law that limits how much insurance companies can spend on administrative expenses.

This Kaiser Family Foundation analysis found that monthly premiums per person ranged from $136 in Alabama to more than $400 in Vermont and Massachusetts, for a national average of $215.

California HealthCare Foundation (CHCF) has outlined three approaches to help inform California's Health Benefit Exchange (CHBE) in early strategic and operational decisions.

According to a report by Milliman, about 2.3 million individuals who receive Social Security benefits will also be eligible to receive Medicaid beginning in 2014 because of an income exclusion for Social Security under the health reform law.

The Georgia Health Policy Center released results from the 2011 Georgia Employer Survey showing that less than half of small firms (2 to 500 employees) in Georgia offer employer-sponsored coverage.

In this brief sponsored by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, the authors examine premium-contribution requirements for children's and family health insurance coverage through a combination of Children's Health Insurance Program (CHIP) and employer-sponsored insurance in Pennsylvania, Illinois, and Washington.

This SHARE note discusses the implications of the Affordable Care Act's (ACA) new Medicaid income definition, Modified Adjusted Gross Income (MAGI), or state Medicaid eligibility systems.

This document highlights 10 important priorities for consumers and outlines key areas that require stronger protections or clarification in the federal regulations on state health insurance exchanges.

U.S. health care practices spend nearly $83,000 annually per physician on administrative costs, nearly four times as much as Canadian practices.