Facts and Figures

The Kaiser Family Foundation and the Health Research & Educational Trust (Kaiser/HRET) conduct this annual survey of employer-sponsored health benefits.

This collection of figures is derived from a survey of employers conducted by Mercer. It investigates the reasons that some employers do not offer health coverage, how much they might be willing to contribute to employee health coverage, their opinions on proposed reforms to health coverage, and the burdens of compliance in states that have enacted reforms.

This report presents data on income, poverty, and health insurance coverage in the United States based on information collected in the 2008 and earlier Annual Social and Economic Supplements to the Current Population Survey conducted by the U.S. Census Bureau.

In September 2004, the New York City Mayor’s Office of Health Insurance Access released this report on the participation of New York City community districts in public health insurance programs.

This Health Care for All New Yorkers fact sheet profiles New York State’s uninsured population.

This Health Care for All New Yorkers fact sheet outlines the challenges and pitfalls of implementing a health care reform initiative in New York State similar to that of Massachusetts.

The Medical Expenditure Panel Survey (MEPS) is a set of large-scale surveys of families and individuals, their medical providers, and employers across the United States. MEPS data are compiled by the U.S. Department of Health & Human Services, Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality.

The University of Minnesota's State Health Access Data Assistance Center (SHADAC) helps states to monitor rates of health insurance coverage and to understand factors associated with uninsurance. SHADAC identifies what state-level estimates are possible from national surveys like MEPS and NHIS.

The Dartmouth Atlas of Health Care, a project of The Dartmouth Center for Evaluative Clinical Sciences, provides tools to help create data-driven reports comparing geographic areas. Using the data and the data tools available online reveals patterns of health care spending and use of health care resources across the state.

New York State’s Children’s State Health Insurance Program (SCHIP), called Child Health Plus, provides coverage for many low-income children in New York State. These tables show the enrollment rates in this program.

The Statewide Planning and Research Cooperative System (SPARCS) collects patient-level information about the characteristics, diagnoses and treatments, services, and charges for every hospital discharge, ambulatory surgery patient, and emergency department admission.

This United Hospital Fund and Urban Institute report (funded by the New York State Health Foundation) presents demographic information on the uninsured in New York State and New York City.

The New York State Department of Health keeps statistics on Medicaid. Children are at greatest risk when families are uninsured. Because many important health problems start in childhood, the lack of coverage—and access to care—for children has been a longstanding concern.

EpiQuery is a Web-based, user-friendly system designed to guide users through basic data analyses on several datasets, which include a variety of indicators related to coverage.