Quantitative Analysis Reports
Medicaid Expansion Would Lighten Spending Burden
A state-by-state analysis shows where Medicaid expansion could have the most impact on reducing the financial burden of medical costs.
Medicaid
Urban Institute Real Time Policy Analysis
No Vet Left Behind
As many as 40 percent of the nation's 1.3 million uninsured veterans could qualify for Medicaid under provisions of the Affordable Care Act (ACA), a new analysis suggests. Whether veterans receive these benefits depends on which states opt to expand Medicaid.
State Network Resources
Medicaid Expansion: Who Won't Be Eligible?
Despite the far-reaching Medicaid expansion under the Affordable Care Act (ACA), large numbers of low-income uninsured adults won't be eligible because of their immigration status. This brief provides the first state-specific estimates of the number of uninsured low-income adults who fall into that category.
Survey
Support for State Insurance Exchanges Spans Party Lines
Fifty-five percent of the public say establishing the exchanges is a “top priority,” according to a survey released by RWJF, the Kaiser Family Foundation, and the Harvard School of Public Health.
Urban Institute Real Time Policy Analysis
More to Gain, Less to Lose
Under the Affordable Care Act (ACA) implementation, hospitals will likely gain $2.59 in new revenue from Medicaid participants for every dollar lost from private health insurance revenue.
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A Medicaid Win-Win
February 25, 2013 | Feature
Nirav Shah, MD, New York health commissioner and three-time RWJF grantee, leads a plan that has cut $4 billion in state Medicaid expenditures while adding 154,000 people to the Medicaid rolls.
Reformulating the Federal Match as a Key to the Sustainability of Medicaid
January 14, 2013 | Journal Article
A call to change the method of calculating federal contributions to state Medicaid programs that more accurately takes into account individual—and changing—state economic circumstances
RWJF Scholar Adds “Impact Award” to Collection of Prizes
February 7, 2013 | Story
A study by RWJF Investigator Amy Finkelstein and others was lauded in February for injecting scientific evidence into the fiery political debate about the effectiveness of Medicaid coverage.
Helping States Target Interventions to Medicaid Patients Who Need Help the Most
October 10, 2012 | Story
Health & Society Scholar will use RWJF SHARE grant to continue her work studying Wisconsin’s Medicaid expansion.
The Medicaid Platform
June 1, 2011 | Journal Article
"Implementation termites" are corrosive factors hidden in the structure of social policy. In this article Frank J. Thompson discusses three factors specific to Medicaid: the politics of insurance reimbursement the commitment and capacity of states and, compensatory federalism.
Medicaid Improves Health of People Who Are Low Income and Uninsured, RWJF Investigator Finds
July 12, 2011 | Human Capital Blog Post
Finkelstein: I’m not sure I can say what was "surprising" per se, because I didn't have strong opinions before the study of what we would find, which is of course exactly when doing such a study is most valuable. I will say that before we produced a ...
Medicaid Improves Health of Previously Uninsured, Low-Income People, RWJF Scholar Finds
July 12, 2011 | Story
Investigator Awardee completes first-ever randomized control trial to examine Medicaid's impact.
Oklahoma Medicaid Director Uses Behavioral Economics to Improve Diabetes Care and Builds the Medicaid Bench
April 26, 2011 | Story
Through a practicum that is required for all fellows, Mitchell introduced innovation to the Oklahoma Medicaid program. Her interest was in prevention and empowering Medicaid beneficiaries to take more responsibility for their health.
Medicaid Director Brings Value-Based Health Care and Stronger Leadership Skills to California
April 26, 2011 | Story
"I wanted to focus on an approach where we could get better value out of the system, better ability to measure outcomes and provide incentives to our providers to make the right decisions about the best type of care to provide," said Douglas.
The Unintended Impact of Welfare Reform on the Medicaid Enrollment of Eligible Immigrants
October 1, 2004 | Journal Article
As part of welfare reform, Congress barred legal immigrants who entered the United States after August 1996 from Medicaid for five years after immigration. This study compares the Medicaid enrollment of U.S.-born citizens to pre-1996 immigrants, bef ...