In 2007, the state of Minnesota considered establishing a Health Insurance Exchange to serve small groups and individuals, facilitating access to coverage, choice among insurance products, portability of coverage, and affordability. Mathematica studied the coverage, cost, and fiscal impacts of a...

This report estimates the effects of reimbursement strategies and provider-level interventions to reduce hospital readmissions. Several quality-improvement interventions have proved effective in reducing readmission rates, but relatively few hospitals have adopted these programs, in large part...

Mathematica evaluated five health care reform proposals for the state of Washington in 2008. The proposals featured, respectively: reduced regulation in the current market; Massachusetts-style insurance reforms with a health insurance connector; a health partnership program similar to the...

This brief analyzes risk selection over time in Massachusetts' Commonwealth Care program, which serves low-income adults ineligible for Medicaid, much like a Basic Health Plan under the Affordable Care Act. The authors offer lessons for other states considering whether to form a Basic Health...

A new report summarizes progress made between July and December 2012 by Money Follows the Person (MFP) grant programs. MFP grants support state efforts to help individuals living in institutions move to home and community settings if that is where they wish to receive long-term services and...

The fourth annual report of the Money Follows the Person (MFP) Evaluation includes analyses on (1) program implementation for the first five years; (2) descriptions of MFP participants and costs and types of services received; (3) trend analyses to detect shifts in the balance of state long-term...