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Better Research for Better Policy
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The Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation (ASPE) is the principal advisor to the Secretary of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services on policy development, and is responsible for major activities in policy coordination, legislation development, strategic planning, policy research, evaluation, and economic analysis.
[About ASPE](/about)
What's New
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### Behavioral Health Prevalence, Utilization, and Spending Among Older Adult Medic…
Jan 17, 2025
](/reports/older-adult-behavioral-health-chartbook)
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### Rebalancing of Medicaid-Funded Long-Term Services and Supports, 2016-2019
Jan 17, 2025
](/reports/rebalancing-ltss-2016-2019)
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### Trends in Medicaid and CHIP Telehealth Part III: Telehealth Utilization Trends …
Jan 17, 2025
](/reports/medicaid-chip-telehealth-utilization-child-enrollee-characteristics-2019-2021)
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### Long COVID among Essential Workers, Non-Essential Workers, and Not Working Pers…
Jan 17, 2025
](/reports/long-covid-among-workers)
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### Postpartum Health Care Use in Medicaid During the COVID-19 Public Health Emerge…
Jan 16, 2025
](/reports/postpartum-health-care-use-medicaid-during-covid-19-public-health-emergency)
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### Impact of MIPPA on Mental Health Service Utilization and Spending among Older A…
Jan 16, 2025
](/reports/impact-mippa-mh-service-utilization-spending-among-older-adults)
Noteworthy
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### Homelessness & Housing
](/topics/homelessness-housing)
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### Aging & Disability
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### Healthcare Coverage & Access
](/topics/health-health-care/health-care-coverage-access)
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### Child Welfare Prevention Toolkit
](/IV-E-prevention-toolkit)
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### COVID-19
](/coronavirus)
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### Evidence Act (Evaluation Policy, Evaluation Plan)
](/topics/data/evidence-act-0)
About Us
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