Background Research. While Washington State has been conducting a substantial amount of background research with the planning grant, there are some areas where we would like to continue to understand the population that will interact with the exchange and the market environment that will result from various decisions around the exchange. Specifically, the money will provide for the modeling of Medical Expenditure Panel Survey (MEPS) data to portray the Washington State landscape. That data, along with Washington’s state survey data, will then be used to understand the medical needs of the population likely to enter both Medicaid and the exchange. This will be further analyzed to recognize any areas of service utilization that may be anticipated to be higher and may require a provider capacity assessment, such as in the area of mental/behavioral health services. The data will allow for policy recommendations to mitigate any potential issues as the exchange becomes operational.
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Samples: Cooperative Agreement, Cooperative Agreement, Cooperative Agreement
