Health Insurance Coverage for People with HIV Under the Affordable Care Act: Experiences in Five States

Executive Summary
  1. Myron S. Cohen, et al. “Prevention of HIV-1 Infection with Early Antiretroviral Therapy.” New England Journal of Medicine. 365(2011):493-505.

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  2. Heather Bradley, et al. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. “Vital Signs: HIV Diagnosis, Care, and Treatment Among Persons Living with HIV — United States, 2011.” Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report. 63(47);1113-1117. November 28, 2014.

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Issue Brief
  1. Myron S. Cohen, et al. “Prevention of HIV-1 Infection with Early Antiretroviral Therapy.” New England Journal of Medicine. 365(2011):493-505.

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  2. Department of Health and Human Services, Panel on Antiretroviral Guidelines for Adults and Adolescents. Guidelines for the Use of Antiretroviral Agents in HIV-1-infected Adults and Adolescents. November 13, 2014. Accessed 12-15-14 at: http://aidsinfo.nih.gov/guidelines/html/1/adult-and-adolescent-treatment-guidelines/0.

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  3. Heather Bradley, et al. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. “Vital Signs: HIV Diagnosis, Care, and Treatment Among Persons Living with HIV — United States, 2011.” Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report. 63(47);1113-1117. November 28, 2014.

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  4. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. “Diagnoses of HIV Infection in the United States and Dependent Areas, 2012.” HIV Surveillance Report, 2012. vol. 24. November 2014. http://www.cdc.gov/hiv/library/reports/surveillance/.

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  5. Heather Bradley, et al. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. “Vital Signs: HIV Diagnosis, Care, and Treatment Among Persons Living with HIV — United States, 2011.” Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report. 63(47);1113-1117. November 28, 2014.

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  6. Myron S. Cohen, et al. “Prevention of HIV-1 Infection with Early Antiretroviral Therapy.” New England Journal of Medicine. 365(2011):493-505

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  7. Department of Health and Human Services, Panel on Antiretroviral Guidelines for Adults and Adolescents. Guidelines for the Use of Antiretroviral Agents in HIV-1-infected Adults and Adolescents. November 13, 2014. Accessed 12-15-14 at: http://aidsinfo.nih.gov/guidelines/html/1/adult-and-adolescent-treatment-guidelines/0

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  8. Department of Health and Human Services, Panel on Antiretroviral Guidelines for Adults and Adolescents. Guidelines for the Use of Antiretroviral Agents in HIV-1-infected Adults and Adolescents. November 13, 2014. Accessed 12-15-14 at: http://aidsinfo.nih.gov/guidelines/html/1/adult-and-adolescent-treatment-guidelines/0

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  9. Heather Bradley, et al. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. “Vital Signs: HIV Diagnosis, Care, and Treatment Among Persons Living with HIV — United States, 2011.” Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report. 63(47);1113-1117. November 28, 2014.

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  10. See for example: Jayanta Bhattacharya, Dana Goldman, and Neeraj Sood. “The Link Between Public and Private Insurance and HIV-related Mortality.” Journal of Health Economics, 22:6(2003):1105–22; Amy Finkelstein, et al. “The Oregon Health Insurance Experiment: Evidence from the First Year.” The Quarterly Journal of Economics, 127:3(2012): 1057-1106.; Melissa Majerol, Vann Newkirk, and Rachel Garfield. Kaiser Commission on Medicaid and the Uninsured. he Uninsured: A Primer - Key Facts About Health Insurance and the Uninsured in America. December 2014. Available at https://www.kff.org/uninsured/report/the-uninsured-a-primer/.; Patrick Sullivan, et al. “Time to First Annual HIV Care Visit and Associated Factors for Patients in Care for HIV Infection in 10 US Cities.” AIDS Care. Vol. 23 10(2011): 1314-1320; and Baligh R. Yehia, et al. “Sustained Viral Suppression in HIV-Infected Patients Receiving Antiretroviral Therapy.” JAMA, 308:4(2012): 339-42.

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  11. Kaiser Family Foundation analysis of CDC surveillance data: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. “Diagnoses of HIV Infection in the United States and Dependent Areas, 2012.” HIV Surveillance Report, 2012. vol. 24. Nov. 2014. http://www.cdc.gov/hiv/library/reports/surveillance/.

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  12. Department of Health and Human Services, Health Resources and Services Administration, HIV/AIDS Bureau. Ryan White HIV/AIDS Program 2012 State Profiles. Accessed 12-10-14: http://hab.hrsa.gov/stateprofiles/

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  13. Department of Health and Human Services, Health Resources and Services Administration, HIV/AIDS Bureau. Policy Clarification Notice 13-04: Clarifications Regarding Clients Eligible for Private Health Insurance and Coverage of Services by Ryan White HIV/AIDS Program. Revised September 2013. Available at: http://hab.hrsa.gov/manageyourgrant/pinspals/pcn1304privateinsurance.pdf

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  14. E.G. Bing, et al. “Psychiatric Disorders and Drug Use Among Human Immunodeficiency Virus-Infected Adults in the United States.” Archives of General Psychiatry. 58:8(2001),721-8.

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  15. Institute of Medicine. Public Financing and Delivery of HIV/AIDS Care: Securing the Legacy of Ryan White. (Washington DC: National Academies Press, 2005). (Accessed 12-15-14 at: http://iom.edu/Reports/2004/Public-Financing-and-Delivery-of-HIVAIDS-Care-Securing-the-Legacy-of-Ryan-White.aspx ).

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  16. Jennifer Kates. Kaiser Family Foundation. Medicaid and HIV: A National Analysis. 2011. Available at: https://www.kff.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/8218.pdf

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  17. Michael J. Mugavero, K. Rivet Amico, Tim Horn, and Melanie A. Thompson. “The State of Engagement in HIV Care in the United States: From Cascade to Continuum to Control.” Clinical Infectious Diseases.57:8(2013):1164–71.

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