Summary of Requests and Assistance Provided, August 2012 – December 2012
A
summary of requests to the Center for Financing, Access, and Cost Trends
(CFACT) for information to inform health initiatives, and of the assistance
provided from August 2012 through December 2012.
Source of Request |
Request |
Date |
Staff Responsible |
Assistance Provided |
Congressional
Budget Office (CBO) |
Estimates
on Medicaid expenditures of children vs. adults |
8/12 |
Joel
Cohen |
Provided estimates from the MEPS data to
Jessica Banthin of CBO on Medicaid expenditures for children vs. adults. |
Government
Accounting Office (GAO) |
Cost
of dental care |
9/12 |
Steve
Cohen and Rich Manski |
Provided consultation
to inform an analysis undertaken by GAO using MEPS data. The three focus
areas given attention were: (1) trends in dental costs in the U.S., such as
total and per capita expenditures; (2) factors that contribute to dental
costs, and (3) how U.S. dental costs compare to other similarly developed
countries. |
Congressional
Budget Office (CBO) |
Income-based
eligibility for Medicaid before and after implementation of the Affordable
Care Act (ACA) |
9/12 |
Tom
Selden, Salam Abdus, Julie Hudson, and Steve Hill |
Provided information
to Jessica Banthin, Alex Minicozzi, Rob Stewart, and Jeanne Heame of CBO on
the differences in the calculation of income-based eligibility for Medicaid
before and after the implementation of the ACA. |
Government
Accounting Office (GAO) |
Use
of Psychotropic Drugs for Children |
10/12 |
Sam
Zuvekas |
Provided substantive
consultation to inform the GAO report, Use of Psychotropic Drugs for
Children; and reviewed and provided written comments on the
draft, GAO Report on Children's Mental Health (GAO13-15, 290959). |
Congressional
Budget Office (CBO) |
Trends
on expenses for emergency room visits |
11/12 |
Joel
Cohen |
Provided technical
assistance to Melinda Buntin of CBO on trends in expenses for visits to the
emergency room, from the MEPS data. |
Congressional
Budget Office (CBO) |
Characteristics
of individuals newly eligible for Medicaid under provisions of the Affordable
Care Act (ACA) |
11/12 |
Tom
Selden and Steve Hill |
Provided substantive
assistance using data from the MEPS to Jessica Banthin of CBO on the characteristics
of individuals newly eligible for Medicaid under the provisions of the ACA. |
Government
Accounting Office (GAO) |
Children's
Health Insurance Program (CHIP) Benefits and Cost Sharing |
12/12 |
Tom
Selden and Steve Cohen |
Provided
consultation to GAO staff on their project to acquire utilization and
access to care estimates for children with CHIP coverage; specifically, to
calculate the average number of office visits and prescriptions a child had
in 2010. |
Requests
for data and publications: Descriptive statistics for all assistance provided are
available upon request. Please contact Cindy Nunley at cindy.nunley@ahrq.hhs.gov.
Note: HHS is the U.S.
Department of Health and Human Services; MEPS is the Medical Expenditures
Panel Survey.
Source: Center for
Financing, Access, and Cost Trends, Agency for Healthcare Research and
Quality.
Current as of January 2013
Internet Citation:
Informing Health Initiatives: Summary of Requests and Assistance Provided, August 2012 – December 2012. Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, Rockville, MD. http://www.ahrq.gov/data/meps/ihisum1212.htm