AcademyHealth Stateside - 05/28/2008  (Plain Text Version)

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In this issue:
 Only One Month Left to Register for SCI’s Summer Workshop for State Officials in San Francisco
 SCI’s Reinsurance Institute Issues Final Report
 Recent State Updates
 Minnesota Legislature Passes Historic Health Care Reform Legislation
 Maine Passes Funding Package for DirigoChoice Health Plan
 Enrollment in Wisconsin’s BadgerCare Plus Program Exceeds Expectations
 California Consumer Groups, Regulators, and Government Officials Focus on Health Coverage Rescissions
 Register Now For State Health Research and Policy Interest Group Meeting
 GAO Reports Highlight CMS Directive, Health Savings Accounts, and State Budgets
 Reports of Interest

SCI’s Reinsurance Institute Issues Final Report

In 2006, The State Coverage Initiatives (SCI) program offered a new technical assistance product called the Reinsurance Institute. Bringing states together that were seriously considering the development and design of a state public reinsurance program as a strategy to expand coverage, the Reinsurance Institute was focused on creating a network of states interested in exchanging knowledge about this strategy. The Institute was also designed to build a population-based microsimulation model to estimate the benefits and costs of reinsurance and also to provide qualitative technical assistance.

A new report highlights the lessons learned during the Reinsurance Institute and in particular, provides analysis on the reinsurance modeling and lessons learned from state-specific work with Washington, Rhode Island and Wisconsin. These states received in-depth technical assistance from SCI’s consultant partner, the Urban Institute, on how a reinsurance strategy might work in their individual state. The modeling was designed to answer questions about costs, take up, and the overall impact of a publicly-subsidized reinsurance program.

Please click here to access the new Reinsurance publication and its companion report on microsimulation, as well as all of SCI’s publications.