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New NASHP Publications

  • Keeping Children's Coverage Strong in the Context of the Affordable Care Act: Perspectives from State Children's Health Insurance Leaders

    With passage of the Affordable Care Act, the stakes for children’s coverage perhaps have never been higher. Children potentially have much to gain in coverage for themselves and for their parents. However, they also have much to lose in shifting attention, and in unintended consequences of reforms focused on adults. To examine the options for keeping children’s coverage strong in future, NASHP initiated discussions with CHIP program directors. This brief highlights themes from those discussions, focusing on key considerations for children’s coverage that NASHP and most CHIP directors believe policymakers should take into account in making decisions that may affect children’s coverage.

    keeping.children's.coverage.strong.pdf
    May 2012
  • Fostering State Policy to Support Integrated Delivery Systems: Summary of a Discussion Among State Policymakers and Delivery System Leaders

    A group of state and delivery system leaders convened for a day long symposium during NASHP's 2011 Annual State Health Policy Conference to consider the potential of integrated delivery systems and effective policy levers to foster their development. This report comes from the symposium titled Fostering State Policy to Support Integrated Delivery Systems: Summary of a Discussion Among State Policymakers and Delivery System Leaders. This report offers invaluable lessons from the field to help state policymakers understand what it takes to move their health care systems along the continuum from fragmented to highly coordinated, addressing payment reform, health information technology, and innovative provider and service networks

    _Integrated.Delivery.Systems.pdf
    April 2012
  • Shared Decision Making: Advancing Patient-Centered Care through State and Federal Implementation

    Shared decision making (SDM)—a process that engages patients in a dialogue with their providers to help them select health care options that conform to their values and preferences—is receiving increased attention as a tool for improving quality and patient satisfaction, and addressing unwarranted variation in care. Building on NASHP's analyses of state health system improvement initiatives, this report reviews the definition, process, and rationale for SDM and potential roles of states in promoting SDM. The report and a companion document highlight state legislative, regulatory, and other approaches in Maine, Minnesota, Oregon, Vermont, and Washington. The report discusses the challenges of implementation, state strategies to overcome challenges, policy options states have pursued, and lessons from their experience.

     

    shared.decision.making.report.pdf
    March 2012

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