Tools for Monitoring the Health Care Safety Net

Tools for Monitoring the Health Care Safety Net offers strategies and concrete tools for assessing local health care safety nets. With topics ranging from estimating the size of local uninsured populations to using administrative data to presenting information to policymakers, it can assist state and local health officials, planners, and analysts in assessing the capacity and viability of their existing safety net providers as well as understand the characteristics and health outcomes for the populations served.