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| Sharon K LongSummaryAffiliation: Urban Institute Country: USA Publications
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Coverage, access, and affordability under health reform: learning from the Massachusetts modelSharon K Long
Urban Institute, 2100 M St N W, Washington, DC 20037, USA
Inquiry 49:303-16. 2012..Gains in health care access and affordability were widespread, including a 28% decline in unmet need for doctor care and a 38% decline in high out-of-pocket costs...
Sustaining health reform in a recession: an update on Massachusetts as of fall 2009Sharon K Long
Health Policy Center, Urban Institute, Washington, DC, USA
Health Aff (Millwood) 29:1234-41. 2010..Access to health care improved, and the burden of high health care costs on individuals was reduced. However, challenges remain, as some barriers to care persist and escalating health care costs continue to be an issue...- Massachusetts health reform: employer coverage from employees' perspectiveSharon K Long
Urban Institute in Washington, DC, USA
Health Aff (Millwood) 28:w1079-87. 2009..Access to employer coverage has increased, as has the scope and quality of their coverage as assessed by workers. However, premiums and out-of-pocket costs have become more of an issue for employees in small firms... - Access and affordability: an update on health reform in Massachusetts, fall 2008Sharon K Long
Urban Institute in Washington, D C, USA
Health Aff (Millwood) 28:w578-87. 2009..Because these are national concerns as well, Massachusetts continues to offer lessons for national reform efforts... - How have employers responded to health reform in Massachusetts? Employees' views at the end of one yearSharon K Long
Urban Institute, Washington, D C, USA
Health Aff (Millwood) 27:w576-83. 2008..Results suggest that at roughly the end of the first year under health reform, employers in Massachusetts had made few changes in the insurance coverage they offered to their workers... 
Assessing the value of the NHIS for studying changes in state coverage policies: the case of New YorkSharon K Long
The Urban Institute, 2100 M Street NW, Washington, DC 20037, USA
Health Serv Res 42:2332-53. 2007....- Are adults benefiting from state coverage expansions?Sharon K Long
Health Policy Center, Urban Institute, in Washington, DC, USA
Health Aff (Millwood) 25:w1-14. 2006..Because constraints on state resources are putting pressure on expansion efforts, we find evidence that cutbacks will place more adults at risk of being uninsured... - MassHealth succeeds in expanding coverage for adultsSharon K Long
Health Policy Center, The Urban Institute, 2100 M St, N W, Washington DC 20037, USA
Inquiry 41:268-79. 2004..Understanding the impacts of the expansion efforts in Massachusetts adds to the base of knowledge that will be critical for guiding states when the economy recovers and the resources needed for expansion again become available... - An early look at ten state HIFA Medicaid waiversTeresa A Coughlin
Urban Institute, Washington, DC, USA
Health Aff (Millwood) 25:w204-16. 2006..Nationally, we estimate that 300,000 people were covered under HIFA demonstrations as of December 2005. Although this is a sizable number, coverage has fallen far short of the 820,000 expected... - On the road to universal coverage: impacts of reform in massachusetts at one yearSharon K Long
Urban Institute in Washington, DC, USA
Health Aff (Millwood) 27:w270-84. 2008..At the same time, access to care improved, and the share of adults with high out-of-pocket costs and problems paying medical bills dropped. Despite higher-than-anticipated costs, most residents of the state continued to support reform... - The implications of unmet need for future health care use: findings for a sample of disabled Medicaid beneficiaries in New YorkSharon K Long
Urban Institute, Washington, DC 20037, USA
Inquiry 42:413-20. 2005..Addressing the barriers to care that underlie unmet need could generate cost savings to Medicaid and provide better health outcomes for program beneficiaries... - The health care experiences of rural Medicaid beneficiariesSharon K Long
Urban Institute, Washington, DC 20037, USA
J Health Care Poor Underserved 17:575-91. 2006.... - Does managed care improve access to care for Medicaid beneficiaries with disabilities? A national studyTeresa A Coughlin
Urban Institute, 2100 M St, N W, Washington DC 20037, USA
Inquiry 45:395-407. 2008..There is little evidence of improved access under primary care case management or, regardless of MMC type, in rural areas... - Health reform in Massachusetts cut the uninsurance rate among children in halfGenevieve M Kenney
Health Policy Center, Urban Institute, Washington, DC, USA
Health Aff (Millwood) 29:1242-7. 2010.... - Assessing access to care under Medicaid: evidence for the nation and thirteen statesTeresa A Coughlin
Urban Institute, Washington, DC, USA
Health Aff (Millwood) 24:1073-83. 2005..State-level analyses revealed some variation in the access gap... - Health care spending and service use among high-cost Medicaid beneficiaries, 2002-2004Teresa A Coughlin
Urban Institute, Washington DC 20037, USA
Inquiry 46:405-17. 2009..We identified two distinct subgroups of high spenders--those with persistently high costs and those with episodically high costs-each with different services driving their costs... - Commercial plans in Medicaid managed care: understanding who stays and who leavesSharon K Long
Urban Institute in Washington, DC, USA
Health Aff (Millwood) 24:1084-94. 2005.... - How five leading safety-net hospitals are preparing for the challenges and opportunities of health care reformTeresa A Coughlin
Health Policy Center at Urban Institute in Washington, DC, USA
Health Aff (Millwood) 31:1690-7. 2012.... - Do for-profit health plans restrict access to care under Medicaid managed care?Sharon K Long
The Urban Institute, Washington, DC, 20037, USA
Med Care Res Rev 65:638-48. 2008..The results suggest that access to care for Medicaid enrollees may be better under nonprofit plans than for-profit plans... - Safety-net providers after health care reform: lessons from MassachusettsLeighton Ku
Department of Health Policy, George Washington University, Washington, DC 20006, USA
Arch Intern Med 171:1379-84. 2011.... - Access to care among disabled adults on MedicaidSharon K Long
Health Care Financ Rev 23:159-73. 2002..This suggests a need for changes in the system of care under Medicaid, including targeting efforts to improve access to individuals with specific types of disabilities... - Health care access, use, and satisfaction among disabled Medicaid beneficiariesTeresa A Coughlin
Health Care Financ Rev 24:115-36. 2002..Beneficiaries' assessments of their health care were more clear: The bulk of the sample rated one or more area of care as being fair or poor... - Medicare interim payment system's impact on Medicare home health utilizationKorbin Liu
Health Care Financ Rev 25:81-97. 2003..We found that the IPS strongly reduced overall utilization, but that few subgroups were disproportionately affected... - Unmet need among rural Medicaid beneficiaries in MinnesotaSharon K Long
The Urban Institute, Washington, DC 20037, USA
J Rural Health 18:437-46. 2002..Nevertheless, thesefindings are suggestive of negative consequences of unmet need for both Medicaid beneficiaries and program costs... - Capitated Medicaid managed care in a rural area: the impact of Minnesota's PMAP programSharon K Long
Health Policy Center, The Urban Institute, Washington, DC 20037, USA
J Rural Health 21:12-20. 2005..As such, understanding the effects of capitated MMC in rural settings is important for policy considerations... - Florida's medicaid reform: informed consumer choice?Teresa A Coughlin
Urban Institute in Washington, D C, USA
Health Aff (Millwood) 27:w523-32. 2008..These problems were not particular to any group but instead were experienced broadly across the full Medicaid population... - Does high caregiver stress predict nursing home entry?Brenda C Spillman
Urban Institute, 2100 M St, N W, Washington, DC 20037, USA
Inquiry 46:140-61. 2009..We conclude that initiatives to reduce caregiver stress hold promise as a strategy to avoid or defer nursing home entry... - How well does Medicaid work in improving access to care?Sharon K Long
Health Policy Center, The Urban Institute, Washington, DC 20037, USA
Health Serv Res 40:39-58. 2005..To provide an assessment of how well the Medicaid program is working at improving access to and use of health care for low-income mothers... - Getting by in the community: lessons from frail eldersSharon K Long
The Urban Institute, 2100 M Street, NW, Washington, DC, 20037, USA
J Aging Soc Policy 17:19-44. 2005....