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Fair Pricing Law Prompts Most California Hospitals To Adopt Policies To Protect Uninsured Patients From High Charges
June 4, 2013 | Journal Article
This article summarizes California’s Hospital Fair Pricing Act, which was passed in 2006 with the intent of protecting low-income uninsured patients from having to pay hospitals’ full billed charges.
Keeping Kids Covered: Number of Children with Health Coverage Increases During Economic Downturn
August 29, 2012 | Report
This report analyzes recent trends in health insurance coverage for children at the state level between 2008 and 2010. The percentage of children with public coverage through Medicaid or the Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP) increased subst ...
State-Level Health Insurance Coverage Estimates from the 2009 American Community Survey
July 1, 2011 | Survey/Poll
2010 ACS and CPS numbers to be released in September experts will provide insight in September 23 webinar.
American Indian/Alaska Native Uninsurance Disparities
October 1, 2010 | Journal Article
Depending on which data source is used, estimates of uninsurance rates and disparities in these rates between population groups can differ substantially, according to this analysis comparing data from three national surveys regarding the American Indian/Alaska Native population.
State-Level Variation in Children¿s Health Insurance
October 1, 2010 | Report
Experts at the University of Minnesota’s State Health Access Data Assistance Center (SHADAC) analyzed the 2008 ACS data and found significant variations, both within and across states by age, race/ethnicity and family income.
Institute of Medicine Produces Reports and Book Outlining the Effects of Uninsurance on Individuals and the Nation
December 21, 2009 | Program Results Report
The Institute of Medicine of the National Academy of Sciences studied how the lack of health insurance affects individuals, families, communities and the nation and produced and disseminated six reports analyzing these consequences.
The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation's Efforts to Cover the Uninsured
January 1, 2006 | Book
Forty-five million Americans, many of them minorities or poor people, lack insurance coverage for basic health care. Research shows that people without health insurance receive less medical care and are in poorer health than insured people. This art ...
BryanLGH Medical Center
September 1, 2006 | Toolkit
Related websites Urgent Matters Web site The purpose of ED Connections is to link vulnerable patients who repeatedly use the emergency department (ED) for medical care with community services that can help better address their health care needs. Onc ...
Lansing, Mich., Community Mobilizes to Improve Health Care Access for Uninsured
March 30, 2005 | Program Results Report
The Ingham County Health Department, working in partnership with hospitals, employers, consumers and insurers in Lansing, Mich., created an organized system of care for county residents.
Aggressively Marketed, Low-Rate Private Plans Can Cut Number of Medically Uninsured
February 13, 2004 | Program Results Report
The National Institute for Health Care Management conducted a study to identify and assess privately sponsored health insurance plans that cover low- and moderate-income Americans who are unlikely to be eligible for public health insurance programs.