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Accreditation to Approve Health Plans and Providers
The 2010 federal Affordable Care Act (ACA) calls for use of accreditation to ensure quality in the managed health care sector and provide resources to state policy-makers through public-private partnerships. “Accreditation” is a comprehensive evaluat... (Source: RWJF News Digest - Health Insurance Coverage)
Source: RWJF News Digest - Health Insurance Coverage - April 1, 2012 Category: American Health Authors: National Conference of State Legislatures Tags: Public and Community Health Source Type: news

Declining Health Insurance in Low-Income Working Families and Small Businesses
The report finds that declines in ESI have been greater for low-income than high-income families, and greater for small firms than large ones. (Source: RWJF News Digest - Health Insurance Coverage)
Source: RWJF News Digest - Health Insurance Coverage - April 1, 2012 Category: American Health Authors: Holahan J Tags: National Source Type: news

Colorado Site Visit Report
The authors conclude that with less than two years to go before the ACA is fully implemented, Colorado is reasonably well positioned and has made substantial progress in implementing health reform. (Source: RWJF News Digest - Health Insurance Coverage)
Source: RWJF News Digest - Health Insurance Coverage - April 1, 2012 Category: American Health Authors: Hill I Tags: National Colorado (CO) M Source Type: news

New York Site Visit Report
The report finds that New York has been proactive in implementing the ACA and has made considerable progress, despite not yet passing legislation establishing its health insurance exchange. (Source: RWJF News Digest - Health Insurance Coverage)
Source: RWJF News Digest - Health Insurance Coverage - April 1, 2012 Category: American Health Authors: Coughlin TA Tags: National New York (NY) MA Source Type: news

Creating Seamless Coverage Transitions between Medicaid and the Exchanges
Under health reform, Medicaid will expand in 2014 to cover an additional 16 to 20 million beneficiaries. This population will include a significant percentage of childless adults with urgent and complex health care needs, who are likely to shift betw... (Source: RWJF News Digest - Health Insurance Coverage)
Source: RWJF News Digest - Health Insurance Coverage - April 1, 2012 Category: American Health Authors: Ingram C Source Type: news

Freelancers Union Expands Affordable and Stable Coverage for Independent Workers
Freelancers Union expands affordable and stable coverage for independent workers. (Source: RWJF News Digest - Health Insurance Coverage)
Source: RWJF News Digest - Health Insurance Coverage - February 24, 2012 Category: American Health Authors: Nancy Barrand Tags: Pioneer Source Type: news

A Decade of Coverage Losses: Implications for the Affordable Care Act
This report analyzes coverage trends among children, parents and adults without dependent children as a guide to changes in coverage that could be expected in the coming years without ACA. (Source: RWJF News Digest - Health Insurance Coverage)
Source: RWJF News Digest - Health Insurance Coverage - February 1, 2012 Category: American Health Authors: Blavin F Tags: Health Coverage National Quality/Equality Source Type: news

Selection in Massachusetts' Commonwealth Care Program
In this report, researchers at Mathematica Policy Research examined Massachusetts' CommCare program—a program serving low-income adults, much like the ACA's BHP is designed to do. (Source: RWJF News Digest - Health Insurance Coverage)
Source: RWJF News Digest - Health Insurance Coverage - February 1, 2012 Category: American Health Authors: Chollet D Source Type: news

What Are the Effects of the Individual Mandate?
The individual mandate is an integral but controversial part of the health insurance reforms under the Affordable Care Act. (Source: RWJF News Digest - Health Insurance Coverage)
Source: RWJF News Digest - Health Insurance Coverage - January 1, 2012 Category: American Health Authors: Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Tags: Enterprise Level Source Type: news

Mitigating Risk in a State Health Insurance Exchange
This toolkit series, released by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and the Blue Cross Blue Shield of Massachusetts Foundation, provides examples, templates, and lessons from Massachusetts. (Source: RWJF News Digest - Health Insurance Coverage)
Source: RWJF News Digest - Health Insurance Coverage - December 1, 2011 Category: American Health Authors: Holland P Tags: Massachusetts (MA) NE Source Type: news

Risk Adjustment and Reinsurance
A 2011 report that argues the health insurance exchanges must have processes for mitigating the financial risk to insurers of taking on individuals with complex health care needs. (Source: RWJF News Digest - Health Insurance Coverage)
Source: RWJF News Digest - Health Insurance Coverage - December 1, 2011 Category: American Health Authors: Winkelman R Source Type: news

Employer-Sponsored Health Insurance
The great recession and passage of national health reform are altering the calculus of employer approaches to offering health benefits, according to the Center for Studying Health System Change's (HSC) visits to 12 metropolitan communities. (Source: RWJF News Digest - Health Insurance Coverage)
Source: RWJF News Digest - Health Insurance Coverage - October 1, 2011 Category: American Health Authors: Christianson JB Tags: Arizona (AZ) M Arkansas (AR) WSC California (CA) P Massachusetts (MA) NE Michigan (MI) ENC New Jersey (NJ) NJ New York (NY) MA Ohio (OH) ENC South Carolina (SC) SA Washington (WA) P Local or community-based Source Type: news