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

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

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,...

An Implementation Research Approach to Evaluating Health Insurance Programs: Insights from India

One of the distinguishing features of implementation research is the importance given to involve implementers in all aspects of research, and as users of research. We report on a recent implementation research effort in India, in which researchers worked together with program implementers from one of the longest serving government funded insurance schemes in India, the Rajiv Aarogyasri Scheme (...