Informing Health Initiatives: Summary of Requests and Assistance Provided, March 2010-June 2010

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 March 2010 through June 2010.

Source of Request	Request	Date	Staff Responsible	Assistance Provided
House Committee on Veterans' Affairs/ General Accounting Office	Expert review of a VA study on post traumatic stress disorder (PTSD)	3/10	Sam Zuvekas John Fleishman	Detailed consultations and expert review of a VA study on post traumatic stress disorder (PTSD)
Congressional Research Service	Estimates of COBRA enrollment for private and government sectors	3/10	Beth Crimmel	Detailed estimates of COBRA enrollment for 2005-2008 for the private and government sectors, based on MEPS-Insurance Component (MEPS-IC) data
Congressional Research Service	Estimates of trends in total premium costs and employer and employee shares for private employers and State and local governments	3/10	Joel Cohen Jim Branscome	Detailed estimates of trends in total premium costs and employer and employee shares for private employers and State and local governments, based on MEPS-IC data
Senate Committee on Aging	Provide a briefing on AHRQ's assisted living collaborative	3/10	Deb Potter	Detailed briefing on AHRQ's assisted living collaborative, focusing on consumers and their use of assisted living
Congressional Research Service	Estimates of individuals with group and nongroup health insurance coverage	3/10	Jeffrey Rhoades	National estimates from the MEPS on the characteristics numbers of individuals with group and nongroup health insurance coverage
Office of Congressman Lamar Smith	Cost of providing non-emergent care in the emergency room compared with physicians' offices	4/10	Joel Cohen Steve Machlin Bill Yu	National estimates of the cost of providing non-emergent care in the emergency room compared with physicians' offices, using MEPS household data
Office of Congressman Michael H. Michaud	Estimates of health insurance offer rates for large employers in Maine	4/10	Jim Branscome	Estimates of health insurance offer rates for large employers in Maine, derived from the MEPS-IC 2008 private coverage data
Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation, HHS	Estimates of single and non-single health insurance premiums at the State level	5/10	Beth Crimmel	Estimates of single and non-single health insurance premiums at the State level, based on MEPS-IC data, for use in determining the small business tax credit that was included in the health care reform legislation

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.

Page last reviewed July 2010

Internet Citation: Informing Health Initiatives: Summary of Requests and Assistance Provided, March 2010-June 2010. July 2010. Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, Rockville, MD. https://archive.ahrq.gov/policymakers/health-initiatives/summaries/ihisum0610.html