Strategic Planning & Timelines

Preliminary estimates of the impact of federal health reform on state spending in Kansas.

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.

The legislation (H.B. 202) will create a health insurance exchange in Vermont and will also start to implement a single payer system in three to five years.

The bill (S.B. 11 200) establishes the Colorado health benefit exchange as a nonprofit unincorporated public entity.

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 U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) is seeking approval for a study in which researchers will call more than 4,100 doctors’ offices in nine states and seek appointments posing as patients with various medical needs. The proposed study will aim to assess the availability and timliness of primary care physicians accepting new patients covered by Medicare or Medicaid.

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.

New Mexico's health reform website.

A summary of Wisconsin's exchange planning activities from September 30, 2010 - December 31, 2010.