Helpful Links
Related websites
Over the course of the years, we at ARC have found the following websites to be helpful in our work, and we are posting them here for your convenience.
| Some of the Federal government agencies involved in health care financing | ||
| Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) | http://www.hhs.gov | |
| Office of the Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation (ASPE) | program studies; poverty measures | https://aspe.hhs.gov/ |
| Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services | http://www.cms.gov | |
| Trustees Reports, National Health Expenditures, Research | http://www.cms.gov/Research-Statistics-Data-and-Systems/Research-Statistics-Data-and-Systems.html | |
| Centers for Disease Control and Prevention | http://www.cdc.gov | |
| NCHS | Surveys of health providers and of the population | http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/ |
| Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality | http://www.ahrq.gov/ | |
| Social Security Administration | http://www.ssa.gov | |
| Office of the Chief Actuary | Trustees Reports, research, etc. | http://www.ssa.gov/OACT/index.html |
| U.S. Census Bureau | Census and studies of health care industry and population | http://www.census.gov |
| Department of Labor | ERISA, etc. | http://www.dol.gov |
| Congressional Budget Office | Reports and cost estimates related to public health care programs | http://www.cbo.gov |
| Professional Associations for Actuaries | ||
| American Academy of Actuaries | Information about the profession and how to become an actuary | http://www.actuary.org/ |
| Society of Actuaries | http://www.soa.org/ | |
| Middle Atlantic Actuarial Club | http://www.maac-actuary.org/ | |
| Some of the more popular surveys related to health care use and spending. | ||
| MEPS | national noninstitutional population | http://meps.ahrq.gov/mepsweb/ |
| MCBS | community and institutional Medicare enrollees | http://cms.gov/Research-Statistics-Data-and-Systems/Research/MCBS/index.html?redirect=/mcbs/ |
| NHIS | National population survey of health insurance and health care use | http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/nhis.htm |
| National Health Care Surveys | Family of surveys of health care providers | http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/dhcs.htm |
| Health and Retirement Study | longitudinal survey of national population ages 50 and older | http://hrsonline.isr.umich.edu/ |
| Other resources | ||
| HCUP | Use and quality measures related to hospital care | http://www.hcup-us.ahrq.gov/ |
| Data Ferrett | web tool to examine and extract data from public databases | http://dataferrett.census.gov/ |
| Medicare.gov | Information for beneficiaries | http://medicare.gov |
| Kaiser Family Foundation | briefing papers and short studies related to health care financing | http://kff.org/ |
| Research Data Assistance Center | Help with Medicare and Medicaid datasets | http://resdac.org |
| Chronic Conditions Data Warehouse | Summary data on Medicare and Medicaid | http://www.ccwdata.org/ |
