Reports & Analysis

This fact sheet from the Center for Health Care Strategies identifies considerations for states in deciding whether to apply for a competitive grant opportunity for Medicaid agencies to develop, implement, and evaluate incentive programs for Medicaid beneficiaries with chronic diseases.

This issue brief examines how the essential benefits provision in the Affordable Care Act will help Americans with disabilities, who currently are subject to discrimination by insurers based on health status and health care need.

This report presents an overview of key lessons from Massachusetts that could be relevant to policymakers, advocates, providers, health plans, foundations, and community members working to implement health reform in other states and nationally.

This report highlights key characteristics of the state health insurance exchange population, based on Congressional Budget Office (CBO) estimates of the effects of Affordable Care Act on insurance coverage, to help federal and state policymakers and other researchers make informed decisions regarding how to structure the Exchanges to meet the healthcare needs of individuals across the country.

This brief gives a background of state health insurance exchange navigators, changes made by the Affordable Care Act, key implementation dates and key issues surrounding the topic.

The purpose of this brief is to set forth the major requirements for state health insurance exchanges as described in the Affordable Care Act.

This paper presents a vision for a transformed delivery system; highlights key federal resources to help achieve this vision; explores the core elements of delivery system reform; and offers specific examples of health centers and states that are partnering to design and implement innovative models of health care.

This report analyzes the value of the Medicaid matching rate to states before, during and after the American Reinvestment and Recovery Act funding.

This report was created as a guide for states to use through the planning and implementaion process of the Medicaid primary care provider reimbursement increase set for 2013.

This paper highlights the challenges of transforming small primary care practices, how Medicaid can offer shared supports to providers or catalyze them into investing in modernized systems of care, and what else federal and state governments can do to help advance these efforts.