Reports & Analysis

According to this brief by the Urban Institute, state governments would spend at least $90 billion less with the ACA than without it from 2014 to 2019.

This brief provides a summary of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation’s Changes in Health Care Financing and Organization (HCFO) Initiative's meeting discussion among expert researchers, policymakers, insurers, actuaries, and analysts focused on insurance pricing in the individual and small group markets once the health reform law is fully implemented.

This report, funded by a grant from the California HealthCare Foundation, makes recommendations for how California can measure the impact of health reform in three areas of health insurance coverage, affordability and comprehensiveness of coverage, and access to health care services.

This Robert Wood Johnson Foundation funded paper walks through the decision making process and different options for states:

 

This NASHP report identifies states and FQHCs that are collaborating to build community networks to make medical home services available for vulnerable populations.

Robert Wood Johnson Foundation has created a directory that provides access to publicly available, free reports with information about the process of delivering care, actual outcome for patients, what patients said in surveys about their experience with physicians or hospitals, and/or cost.

National Institute for Health Care Management Foundation Data Brief on U.S. health care.

The Center for Health Care Strategies' has a new intiative, Using the Medicaid Rate Increase as a Lever for Primary Care Delivery and Payment Reform.

This issue brief outlines a framework for tracking delivery system change at the community level and details the data elements needed to ensure a unified picture of delivery system change.

According to the Urban Institute report, the ACA has the potential to reverse the significant decline in employer sponsored coverage that has occured over the last ten years