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/
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/