Interim Evaluation Report: Congressionally Mandated Evaluation of the State Children's Health Insurance Program, Executive Summary

Interim Evaluation Report: Congressionally Mandated Evaluation of the State Children's Health Insurance Program

Congressionally Mandated Evaluation of the State Children's Health Insurance Program. Site Visit Report: The State of California's Healthy Families Program

The State Children's Health Insurance Program.

PURPOSE OF REVIEW The State Children's Health Insurance Program expanded public health insurance to children who are ineligible for Medicaid yet unable to afford private health insurance. The program was a natural experiment, offering the opportunity to study the effects of expanding health insurance to a large population of children who would otherwise be uninsured. The State Children's Health...

Evaluation of the national swing-bed program in rural hospitals

The Health Care Financing Administration (HCFA) implemented a swing-bed demonstration and evaluation program for rural communities in the 1970's. The demonstration substantiated the cost effectiveness of providing long-term care in small, rural, acute care hospitals. As a result, Section 904 of the Omnibus Reconciliation Act of 1980 (Public Law 96-499) authorized the national swing-bed program,...

Medicare Second Surgical Opinion Programs: The Effect of Waiving Cost-Sharing

The Health Care Financing Administration conducts research, demonstration, and evaluation projects under legislative authorities included in the Social Security Act, the Public Health Service Act, and the Rural Health Service Act. When the Congress feels that additional information is necessary to make legislative changes to a specific area of the Medicare and Medicaid programs, it directs HCFA...