This report to Congress analyzed 10 years of data to look at trends in emergency department utilization at the national and state levels. The report analyzes three categories of utilization:
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Advanced SearchInpatient Bed Tracking: State Responses to Need for Inpatient Care
States have begun to collect and post information on bed availability (i.e., create bed registries or bed tracking systems) as a tool for providers, patients, and caregivers to identify open beds more efficiently.
Loss of Medicare-Medicaid Dual Eligible Status: Frequency, Contributing Factors and Implications
This paper seeks to document the frequency of Medicaid coverage loss among full-benefit dual eligible beneficiaries and identify potential causes for coverage loss. For dual eligible beneficiaries, the loss of full-benefit Medicaid coverage is of concern because most of them do not have an alternative source of health insurance for the services covered by full-benefit Medicaid.
Health Care Spending Growth and Federal Policy
In this Issue Brief, we examine spending growth through 2014, the first year the Affordable Care Act’s coverage provisions were in effect, and 2015, where possible. We provide detailed cost growth trends for Medicare and the private insurance market. We also estimate the effect of recently introduced specialty drugs on current and future spending growth.
Addendum to the Health Insurance Marketplaces 2016 Open Enrollment Period: Final Enrollment Report
This Addendum contains detailed State-level tables highlighting cumulative enrollment-related information for the Health Insurance Marketplaces (Marketplaces) during the 2016 Open Enrollment period for all 50 states and the District of Columbia (11-1-15 to 1-31-16, including Special Enrollment Period (SEP) activity through 2-1-16).
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Plan Selections by ZIP Code and County in the Health Insurance Marketplace: March 2016
The dataset provides the total number of Qualified Health Plan selections by ZIP Code and county for the 38 states that use the HealthCare.gov platform, including the Federally-facilitated Marketplaces, State Partnership Marketplaces, and supported State-based Marketplaces, during the Marketplace’s third Open Enrollment Period (based on data for the period November 1, 2015 – February 1, 2016).
Addendum to the Health Insurance Marketplaces 2016 Open Enrollment Period: January Enrollment Report
This Addendum contains detailed State-level tables highlighting cumulative enrollment-related information for the Health Insurance Marketplaces (Marketplaces) during the the first part of the 2016 Open Enrollment period for all 50 states and the District of Columbia (11-1-15 to 12-26-15).