Medicaid and Managed Care
This fact sheet provides an overview of the Medicaid program's increasing reliance on managed care to deliver services.
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CHIP Program Enrollment: June 2000
ReportThe report reveals that the total number of children enrolled in state CHIP programs had grown to 2.3 million by June 2000, showing a steady increase in enrollment. The report is part of a larger project to track Medicaid and CHIP enrollment in all 50 states.
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Parents’ Views of Children’s Health Insurance Programs: A Survey of Denied Applicants for Kaiser Permanente’s Child Health Plan
Poll FindingIn 1997, Kaiser Permanente launched the Child Health Plan to provide subsidized health insurance for low income California children not eligible for Medi-Cal (California's Medicaid program) or Healthy Families (California's State Children's Health Insurance Program).
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Uninsured 101
Other PostWhat You Really Need to Know About an American Dilemma This briefing, co-sponsored by the Alliance for Health Reform and the Kaiser Family Foundation, provides key information on one of the critical issues facing the nation.
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Enabling Services: A Profile of Medicaid Managed Care Organizations
ReportThe report provides basic statistics on Medicaid managed care organizations providing enabling services - transportation, translation, education, and case management. The report also identifies the extent of variation across plans.
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Commercial Health Plan Participation in Medicaid Managed Care: An Examination of Six Markets
ReportThe issue paper studies health care markets of Denver, Detroit, Milwaukee, Miami, New York, and Seattle. The paper identifies key determinants for plan participation.
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Mandatory Medicaid Managed Care–Plan and Enrollee Perspectives on the Enrollment Process
ReportThe issue paper discusses the enrollment process from the perspectives of both beneficiaries and participating plans in nine states with mandatory Medicaid managed care programs: California, Connecticut, Florida, Maryland, Michigan, Missouri, New Mexico, Oklahoma, and Oregon.
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Access to Care for S-CHIP Children with Special Health Needs
Issue BriefA study of California, Connecticut, Maryland, Missouri, and Utah CHIP programs show that the states have features in place for special needs children, but problems of provider availability and service authorization did sometimes occur. This is the first in a series of reports on implementation issues and challenges in the first year of CHIP.
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Immigrants’ Access to Health Care After Welfare Reform: Findings from Focus Groups in Four Cities-1608
ReportImmigrants' Access to Health Care After Welfare Reform: Findings from Focus Groups in Four Cities A new analysis of focus groups in Los Angeles, Miami, New York, and San Antonio reveal immigrants' knowledge of and attitudes toward public programs such as Medicaid and CHIP.
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Medicaid and Prescription Drugs: An Overview
ReportThis background paper discusses the coverage of prescription drugs through the Medicaid program. Some of the issues addressed include who is eligible to receive drugs, how drug coverage is paid for, and how much money states spend on drugs.