NASI and NAPA call for papers (proposals due Mar 1)

The National Academy of Social Insurance (NASI) and National Academy of Public Administration are undertaking an analysis of the management and administrative issues that arise in expanding health coverage.  As part of this project, the academies are soliciting manuscripts from researchers, practitioners, and policy analysts working on these issues.  Manuscripts may identify the core administrative functions that need to be performed in assuring access to health coverage, describe how these functions are performed at present and under proposed alternatives, draw lessons from experience in the U.S. and abroad, and assess suggested administrative and management approaches designed to facilitate the improvement or expansion of health care coverage. Manuscripts may report empirical analyses, best practices, thought pieces, issue papers, or literature reviews. Manuscripts will be included as chapters in an edited book to be published by M.E. Sharpe publishers. Papers on the following topics are of particular interest:

·        Opportunities for standardizing insurance products and promoting common practices among insurers to reduce administrative costs,
·        Facilitating enrollment in health insurance plans,
·        Administering employer and individual mandates,
·        Administering tax credits for health insurance,
·        Administering income-tested premiums, subsidies, or copayments,
·        Regulating health insurance (including ERISA issues),
·        Administrative and management structures that would support controlling health care costs, measuring performance, and assuring quality, and
·        Administrative lessons from state-based efforts to take the lead or other steps to expand coverage.

Interested authors should submit a one-page proposal by March 1, 2007, to Terry Buss at tbuss@napawash.org summarizing the paper you intend to write.

Proposals received after this date will be considered on a space-available basis. If your proposal is accepted, your completed paper will be due to us by August 1, 2007. You may submit a completed paper at any time for consideration.