Disability Research Seminar Series 2: Interactions Between Disability Cash Benefits and Public Health Insurance

A collaboration between the Social Security Administration (SSA) and the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) has created a unique longitudinal database for studying working-age people with disabilities. The database links Social Security data on Disability Insurance (DI) and Supplemental Security Income (SSI) benefits with Medicare and Medicaid administrative data.

In this web-based seminar, Kalman Rupp, Social Security Administration, and Gerald Riley, Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, presented findings from research in which they explored the following issues:

• Interactions between DI and SSI participation patterns
• Patterns of Medicare and Medicaid coverage among DI and SSI program entrants
• How Medicaid coverage is affected by the processing of disability applications and state variations in Medicaid eligibility policy
• Expenditure patterns in 2000–2006 under DI, SSI, Medicare, and Medicaid for beneficiaries who were awarded disability benefits for the first time in 2000
• For workers awarded disability benefits in 2000, the present value of cumulative expenditures in the four programs projected to death or age 65 

Additional Resources:

Riley, Gerald F., and Kalman Rupp. “Cumulative Expenditures Under the DI, SSI, Medicare, and Medicaid Programs for a Cohort of Disabled Working-Age Adults.” Health Services Research, published online August 11, 2014.

Riley, Gerald F., and Kalman Rupp. “Expenditure Patterns Under the Four Major Public Cash Benefit and Health Insurance Programs for Working-Age Adults with Disabilities.” Journal of Disability Policy Studies, vol. 25, no. 2, 2014, pp.71-80.

Rupp, Kalman, and Gerald F. Riley. “Longitudinal Patterns of Medicaid and Medicare Coverage Among Disability Cash Benefit Awardees.” Social Security Bulletin, vol. 72, no. 3, 2012.

Rupp, Kalman, and Gerald F. Riley. “Longitudinal Patterns of Participation in the Social Security Disability Insurance and Supplemental Security Income Programs for People with Disabilities.” Social Security Bulletin, vol. 71, no. 2, 2011.

Rupp, Kalman, and Gerald F. Riley. “Longitudinal Patterns of Medicaid and Medicare Coverage Among Participants in the Supplemental Security Income and Social Security Disability Insurance Disability Programs.” Paper presented at the 2011 Annual Meetings of the Allied Social Sciences Associations, Denver, Colorado, January 6–9, 2011.

About the Series

Mathematica’s Center for Studying Disability Policy series of web-based seminars about new disability policy research are intended for researchers with advanced degrees in the social sciences and graduate students seeking such degrees. The series features presentations from nationally recognized disability researchers in academia, the government, and think tanks. These seminars are an opportunity to learn about the latest high quality research on disability policy issues before it is published. These real-time, interactive events also provide opportunities for disability researchers to engage with their peers.

The seminar series is sponsored by the Social Security Administration through its Disability Research Consortium co-operative agreement with Mathematica.

For more information, please contact disabilityforums@mathematica-mpr.com.