The percentage of Americans under age 65 with employer-sponsored health insurance coverage has dropped to 59.5 percent in 2011, continuing a decade-long decline, finds a new study. The analysis, led by the State Health Access Data Assistance Center (SHADAC) and funded by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, reports that the share of people with employer-based [...]
In the first empirical study of the role supplemental insurance coverage might play in Medicare spending growth, researchers at the University of Minnesota School of Public Health and Harvard Medical School found that employer-sponsored and self-purchased supplemental coverage were associated with annual spending growth rates of 7.17 percent and 7.18 percent, respectively, compared to 6.08 [...]
United States hospital-based births covered by private insurance are associated with higher rates of obstetric intervention than births paid for by Medicaid, according to new research from the University of Minnesota School of Public Health (SPH). The study appears today in the American Journal of Managed Care. SPH health policy expert Katy Kozhimannil, who led [...]
The University of Minnesota has received a gift of $1 million from Master of Healthcare Administration (MHA) alum Don Wegmiller and his wife, Janet, to establish the Wegmiller Professorship in Healthcare Administration. The program is offered by the University of Minnesota School of Public Health. Wegmiller, a 1962 graduate, credits the MHA program in significantly [...]
“I loved walking across the Mississippi from the Law School to the School of Public Health and taking on a whole new set of challenges,” says Elizabeth Karan (aka Issie) of her years in graduate school earning an MPH in Public Health Administration and Policy and a JD through the University’s Joint Degree Program in [...]
If it’s true, as philanthropist Andrew Carnegie once said, that “it’s more difficult to give money away intelligently than to earn it in the first place,” then Don and Janet Wegmiller’s recent gift to the School of Public Health’s Master of Healthcare Administration (MHA) program would score high with Carnegie. The couple’s decision to endow [...]
On June 28, 2012, the Supreme Court upheld the constitutionality of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA) and the mandate that all individuals must have health insurance coverage. But the court ruled that the ACA Medicaid expansion was optional and that governors and state leaders could choose whether or not to increase their [...]
Next fall, most Americans and many small business people will sit at their computers searching for the right health care insurance policy. If all goes well, they should be getting more choices in an easy-to-understand format called a health insurance exchange. “We are planning for [health insurance selection] to be a process that takes [...]
By Andrew McCulloch (MHA ’80), president of Kaiser Permanente Northwest Central to federal health care reform is the need to innovate our systems to deliver higher quality, more affordable care. In my home state of Oregon, we are at the helm of one of the most ambitious reform efforts in the nation. It is focused [...]
Cesarean delivery is the most common surgery in the United States, performed on 1.67 million American women annually. Yet hospital cesarean rates vary widely according to new research from the University of Minnesota’s School of Public Health. The latest study, appearing today in Health Affairs, shows that cesarean delivery rates varied tenfold across U.S. hospitals, [...]
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