This report describes the motivation for creating the MAXPC file and its design and content. It also examines the quality and completeness of each of the six types of provider IDs (inpatient billing provider, long-term care billing provider, other services billing and servicing provider, and...

This study looked at the impact of Medicare Part D coverage gaps by examining drug discontinuation and reinitiation among Medicare beneficiaries using medications for cancer or rheumatoid arthritis. The study found that patients in the arthritis or cancer groups—28 and 21 percent,...

As part of the Children's Health Insurance Program Reauthorization Act of 2009 (CHIPRA), Congress permitted Express Lane Eligibility (ELE), which allows state Medicaid and/or CHIP programs to rely on another public agency's eligibility determination to qualify children for public health coverage...

Until we can better identify patients at risk and evidence-based interventions that improve outocmes, institutions should develop protocols that take into account the need for heightened awareness and available resources.

This study examined the characteristics and service use of Medicaid Buy-In participants with higher incomes (above 250 percent of the federal poverty line), relative to participants with lower incomes. The study found higher-income participants were less likely to enroll in Medicare and more...

Describes cognitive, social-emotional and physical health of children as they complete Head Start.

This report summarizes the evidence on measures of student achievement growth used in teacher evaluation that do not rely on traditional annual state assessments, and that instead use commercially available assessments, locally developed common assessments, and teacher-developed student learning...

This study uses administrative data to examine trends in, and factors associated with, violations and reviolations of equal employment opportunity laws for federal contractors and the effectiveness of remedies and press releases to deter reviolations.