Private health insurance
Completed Projects
Alphabetical list. You can also view by project completion date.
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An Empirical Study of Health Insurance Firm Participation over Time in Rural Counties
We examined changes in firm participation in multiple health insurance markets (FEHBP, MA, HIMs) over time in rural counties. We had hypothesized that participation would be related inversely to population density, because it becomes more difficult to spread risk, and network formation becomes more challenging when primary and specialty care becomes less available.
Research center: RUPRI Center for Rural Health Policy Analysis
Topics: Medicare Advantage (MA), Private health insurance
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Assessing Rural Implications of Changes in Insurance Markets
The goal of this project is to understand and predict changes in the insurance market in which rural people will participate and how state and national policies might influence activity in that market. The specific objectives of the project are to analyze state policies designing and implementing health insurance exchanges and to model the behavior of health insurance plans as regards entering and exiting rural markets.
Research center: RUPRI Center for Rural Health Policy Analysis
Topics: Health services, Private health insurance
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Diabetes Management in Urban and Rural Areas of the U.S.
This project used the IBM MarketScan database to examine differences in type 2 diabetes prevalence and monitoring for a commercially insured sample. It also employed definitions from the Health Effectiveness Data and Information Set guidelines for comprehensive diabetes care to determine if rural residents are more or less likely to meet recommended standards for type 2 diabetes monitoring and control.
Research center: Rural and Underserved Health Research Center
Topics: Care management, Chronic diseases and conditions, Diabetes, Health disparities and health equity, Health promotion and disease prevention, Health services, Healthcare access, Private health insurance, Quality
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Examining Recent Trends and Variation in Ambulatory Care Sensitive Conditions-related Hospital Expenditures of Rural Americans with Different Health Insurance Coverage and Status
This study documents the national time-trend and regional variation of rural Ambulatory Care Sensitive Conditions (ACSC)-related hospital expenditures by patient insurance coverage/status. The study will also compare the pattern of difference in the ACSC-related expenditures of rural patients with different insurance coverage/status by patient demographic and economic characteristics as well as hospital characteristics.
Research center: RUPRI Center for Rural Health Policy Analysis
Topics: Chronic diseases and conditions, Health services, Healthcare financing, Private health insurance
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Expanding Rural Health Insurance Coverage: How Do Insurance Reform Strategies Stack Up?
This purpose of this study is to inform policymakers about the current state of health insurance coverage in rural America, and to assess how specific reform strategies may differentially affect rural residents. Using a combination of analytic strategies, we will provide policymakers and rural health advocates with the necessary tools to develop reform strategies that meet the needs of rural residents.
Research centers: Maine Rural Health Research Center, RUPRI Center for Rural Health Policy Analysis
Topics: Health reform, Private health insurance, Uninsured and underinsured
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Financial Impact of Mental Health Services on Rural Individuals and Families
This project will use the Medical Expenditure Panel Survey (MEPS) to examine the financial burden that rural residents face in seeking mental health services, compared to urban residents. Implications of financial burden for access to needed mental health services for rural residents will be assessed.
Research center: Maine Rural Health Research Center
Topics: Healthcare financing, Mental and behavioral health, Private health insurance
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Health Insurance Coverage and Access to Health Services for the Rural Near Elderly
Research center: Maine Rural Health Research Center
Topics: Aging, Health services, Private health insurance, Uninsured and underinsured
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How Have Changes in Insurance Coverage Under Health Reform Affected Uncompensated Care and Financial Performance in Rural Hospitals?
This two-year project will explore the effects of changes in insurance coverage under health reform on the following outcomes in rural hospitals: (1) bad debt; (2) charity care; (3) payer mix (Medicare, Medicaid, other); (3) financial performance; and (4) hospital revenue cycle management. Results will inform federal and state agencies, rural providers and communities as to how implementation of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act is impacting reimbursement and financial performance of rural hospitals, allowing the Office of Rural Health Policy to identify emerging challenges and develop strategies or policy changes needed to deal with any unintended consequences.
Research center: North Carolina Rural Health Research and Policy Analysis Center
Topics: Health reform, Hospitals and clinics, Private health insurance, Uninsured and underinsured
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How Have Changes in Insurance Coverage Under Health Reform Affected Uncompensated Care and Financial Performance in Rural Hospitals? (Year 2)
The second year of this two-year project will explore the effects of changes in insurance coverage under health reform on the following outcomes in rural hospitals: (1) bad debt; (2) charity care; (3) payer mix (Medicare, Medicaid, other); and (4) financial performance.
Research center: North Carolina Rural Health Research and Policy Analysis Center
Topics: Health reform, Healthcare financing, Medicaid and CHIP, Medicare, Private health insurance, Uninsured and underinsured
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How will Plan Offerings and Premiums Change in Rural and Urban Areas in the Second Year of Health Insurance Marketplaces?
This project analyzes changes in Health Insurance Marketplaces plan and premium data between 2014 and 2015 by geographic region.
Research center: RUPRI Center for Rural Health Policy Analysis
Topic: Private health insurance
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How Would Health Insurance Exchanges Work in Rural America?
The passage of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA) of 2010 has created the potential for states to create Health Insurance Exchanges (HIEs). This project will assess the potential of these plans to meet the needs of rural residents. Empirical work will establish baseline measures of choices available to rural residents and literature reviews will yield prospective analysis of how exchanges could operate to benefit rural residents.
Research center: RUPRI Center for Rural Health Policy Analysis
Topics: Health reform, Private health insurance
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Impact of Employment Transitions on Health Insurance Coverage of Rural Residents
This project aims to examine rural-urban differences in the proportion of employed adults with private health insurance who experience an employment transition (defined as a change in jobs or hours worked, or no job) and the impact of that change on health insurance status.
Research center: Maine Rural Health Research Center
Topic: Private health insurance
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Impact of Health Insurance Coverage on Native Elder Health: Implications for Addressing the Health Care Needs of Rural American Indian Elders
This project examined the types of health insurance coverage of rural Native American elders ages 55 and older, and examine how different types of health insurance coverage and lack of health insurance coverage impact access to health care services among Native American elders by geographic location (rural frontier, rural non-frontier and urban).
Research center: Upper Midwest Rural Health Research Center
Topics: Aging, American Indians and Alaska Natives, Frontier health, Healthcare access, Minority health, Private health insurance, Rural statistics and demographics, Uninsured and underinsured
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Insurance Status and Quality of Care for Children in Rural Areas: 1993-2000
Research center: Rural and Minority Health Research Center
Topics: Children and adolescents, Minority health, Poverty, Private health insurance, Quality, Uninsured and underinsured
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Knowledge of Health Insurance Concepts and the Affordable Care Act Among Rural Residents
Using the Health Reform Monitoring Survey (HRMS), this project will produce two briefs examining rural-urban comparisons in insurance status, open enrollment knowledge and perceptions, and perceived affordability of coverage available through the Health Insurance Marketplaces.
Research center: Maine Rural Health Research Center
Topics: Health reform, Private health insurance, Rural statistics and demographics
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Patterns of Individual Health Plan Coverage Among Rural Residents
Research center: Maine Rural Health Research Center
Topics: Private health insurance, Rural statistics and demographics, Uninsured and underinsured
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Premium Assistance Programs: Exploring Public-Private Partnerships as a Vehicle for Expanding Health Insurance to Rural Uninsured
This project examines the experience of states that have implemented premium assistance programs in rural areas to determine whether there are certain design features or certain types of rural communities where these programs may be more feasible.
Research center: North Carolina Rural Health Research and Policy Analysis Center
Topics: Private health insurance, Uninsured and underinsured
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Prevalence and Impact of High Deductible Health Insurance Plans in Rural Areas
This study will use national health survey data to examine whether privately insured rural residents are more likely than their urban counterparts to have plans with high deductibles. It will also assess whether high deductible health plans create health care barriers for rural residents, and if these differ from the barriers experienced by those in urban areas.
Research center: Maine Rural Health Research Center
Topics: Health disparities and health equity, Private health insurance
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Role and Early Impact of CO-OPs in the Rural Health Insurance Marketplace
This study will combine quantitative analysis with administrative health plan practice data with targeted case studies to examine the rural availability and pricing of CO-OP plans, and the early experiences of these plans.
Research center: Maine Rural Health Research Center
Topic: Private health insurance
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Rural Health Access: Affordability and Barriers to Care
Rural-urban comparisons of healthcare access and affordability predate many policy reform efforts aimed at increasing access and decreasing costs—ongoing concerns of rural families. This study used national health survey data to examine rural-urban differences in access to medical care, access to insurance, and affordability of care.
Research center: Maine Rural Health Research Center
Topics: Health disparities and health equity, Health reform, Health services, Healthcare access, Healthcare financing, Private health insurance, Public health, Social determinants of health
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Rural Inclusion in the Development of Health Insurance Exchanges
State plans for developing Health Insurance Exchanges (HIEs) will be analyzed to determine likely benefits for rural residents and communities. Three elements of each plan will be described and assessed: strategies to seek out and enroll rural residents eligible for subsidized insurance coverage or categorically eligible for plans offered through exchanges; minimum standards for participating health plans, including access to essential services; and simulations of impact on availability of plans and enrollment of currently uninsured rural residents.
Research center: RUPRI Center for Rural Health Policy Analysis
Topics: Private health insurance, Uninsured and underinsured
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Rural Premiums, Issuer Participation, and Enrollment in Health Insurance Marketplaces: An Updated Analysis
The project described variations in Health Insurance Marketplace plan design and availability, total and net-of-subsidy premium trends, and enrollment over time between rural and urban areas and identified associations between these factors and several key policy differences and changes, controlling for economic and demographic variation.
Research center: RUPRI Center for Rural Health Policy Analysis
Topics: Health disparities and health equity, Health reform, Healthcare access, Private health insurance, Rural statistics and demographics, Uninsured and underinsured
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Rural-Urban Differences in Insurer Participation, Premiums, Health Plan Provider Networks in Federal and State Marketplaces
This two-year project will: 1) measure rural-urban differences in the size, scope, and composition of provider networks affiliated with Marketplace plans; 2) analyze the relationships between provider network size and composition, other benefit design attributes, geographic rating area designations, and premiums; and 3) examine how rural and urban Marketplace-based plan enrollment is affected by plan availability and provider network size and scope.
Research center: University of Minnesota Rural Health Research Center
Topic: Private health insurance
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Rural/Urban Differences in Postpartum Health Insurance, Healthcare Use, and Health Outcomes
The purpose of this project was to identify rural/urban differences in health insurance, healthcare use, and health outcomes among postpartum individuals, and to describe policy-relevant implications or strategies to improve insurance coverage, receipt of recommended healthcare, and, ultimately, health outcomes among rural residents who give birth. With a lens towards health equity, all analyses were stratified by race/ethnicity and income.
Research center: University of Minnesota Rural Health Research Center
Topics: American Indians and Alaska Natives, Health disparities and health equity, Healthcare access, Healthcare financing, Hispanics, Hospitals and clinics, Legislation and regulation, Maternal health, Medicaid and CHIP, Minority health, Private health insurance, Women
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State Policy Issues That May Impact HIMs' Success in Rural Places: A Regional Analysis
Goals of this project include gathering detailed data and providing analysis and policy recommendations on issues relating to network adequacy and service areas for HIMs, with additional investigation of other state-level policy variables (such as the Medicaid expansion decision) which may have a confounding or moderating effect on the relationship between network adequacy and enrollees' choices and premiums.
Research center: RUPRI Center for Rural Health Policy Analysis
Topics: Health information technology, Legislation and regulation, Medicaid and CHIP, Private health insurance, Telehealth
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The Rural/Urban Impact of Insurance Coverage Changes
We examined the impacts of changes in health insurance coverage during the last several years on use of health services and health outcomes separately for rural and urban areas. Due to differences in demand and supply level factors, we hypothesized that the effects of coverage changes differ by rural/urban status.
Research center: RUPRI Center for Rural Health Policy Analysis
Topics: Health services, Private health insurance
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Trends in Rural Children's Health and Access to Care
The past ten years have seen positive trends in the availability of health insurance coverage for children, coupled with worsening trends for poverty. This project will examine data from three iterations of the National Survey of Children' Health (2003, 2007, 2012) to see whether rural children have benefited equally from any improvements in health insurance, healthcare use, and health status.
Research center: Rural and Minority Health Research Center
Topics: Children and adolescents, Private health insurance
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Understanding Trends in Telehealth Use: An All-Payer Analysis in Maine
This project's primary purpose was to use Maine's All-Payer Claims Database and key informant interviews to develop a descriptive overview of telehealth use in Maine, examining how telehealth use had changed over time (2008-2017) among rural and urban patients and providers.
Research center: Rural Telehealth Research Center
Topics: Medicare, Private health insurance, Telehealth
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What Constitutes An Adequate Provider Network For Rural Health Populations?
The purpose of this study is to develop norms/standards for provider network adequacy for rural populations (which may vary across different rural environments) that will be useful to consumers, providers, and policymakers in the decisions they face with respect to health plan choices, participation, and policies.
Research center: University of Minnesota Rural Health Research Center
Topic: Private health insurance
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Why Are Health Care Costs Increasing and Is There a Rural Differential in National Data?
This project will determine whether growth in health insurance premiums and out-of-pocket spending differs in rural areas as compared to urban areas.
Research center: RUPRI Center for Rural Health Policy Analysis
Topic: Private health insurance
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Will Health Insurance Marketplaces Deliver Affordable Options in Rural America
This project analyzes early Health Insurance Marketplaces plan and premium data by geographic region, controlling for state policy decisions, to assess the degree to which affordable health insurance will be available through individual and/or small business marketplaces.
Research center: RUPRI Center for Rural Health Policy Analysis
Topics: Health reform, Private health insurance