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  • Children Discharged from Foster Care:  Strategies to Prevent the Loss of Health Coverage at a Critical Transition

    Report

    This report discusses the importance of maintaining health coverage for children who are discharged from foster care and presents strategies that state child welfare and Medicaid agencies can employ to reach this goal. In addition, the report also addresses the needs of children who age out of the foster care system at age 18, and discusses state options to expand health coverage to this group. Report

  • Access to Care for S-CHIP Adolescents

    Report

    The second in a series of reports on implementation issues and challenges in the first year of S-CHIP finds that the five study states have not focused special attention on the unique service needs of this age group, such as risk assessment and counseling, reproductive and sexual health services, and mental health services, when designing their programs. REPORT Download

  • Parents’ Views of Children’s Health Insurance Programs: A Survey of Denied Applicants for Kaiser Permanente’s Child Health Plan

    Poll Finding

    In 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). As part of a broader evaluation of the Child Health Plan funded jointly by the Kaiser Family Foundation and the California HealthCare Foundation, these reports provide findings from a survey of low income parents who were eligible for Medi-Cal or…

  • Legislative Summary: State Children’s Health Insurance Program

    Fact Sheet

    This Fact Sheet summarizes eligibility, benefits and cost-sharing, and financing rules of the State Children's Health Insurance Program as well as other child-related Medicaid provisions from the Balanced Budget Act of 1997. Fact Sheet Fact Sheet

  • Medicaid Benefits: California

    Other Post

    Completed for the National Conference of State Legislatures and the Kaiser Commission on Medicaid and the Uninsured, by Health Management Associates. Compiled from Medicaid State Plans and Amendments approved by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, and from State websites, with verification by State and Territorial Medicaid officials in March 2003.

  • Preserving Recent Progress for Health Coverage of Children and Parents: New Tensions Emerge

    Report

    The latest survey of eligibility rules and enrollment and renewal procedures in all 50 states and the District of Columbia in their Medicaid and SCHIP programs for children and parents. It reflects changes states implemented between January 2002 and April 2003. The current survey also solicited information about states premiums and cost-sharing practices. Report Enrolling Children and Families in Health Coverage: The Promise of Doing More (50 State Survey as of January 2002) >>All 50-State…

  • Fact Sheets Summarize President’s Budget Proposals for Health Insurance Coverage, Including Medicaid and SCHIP

    Fact Sheet

    Fact Sheets Summarize President's Budget Proposals for Health Insurance Coverage, Including Medicaid and SCHIP The President's fiscal year 2008 budget proposal includes changes to Medicaid, provisions for the reauthorization of SCHIP, and the health coverage initiative, Affordable Choices. These fact sheets provide an overview of President Bush's policy plans on these health coverage issues. The Affordable Choices Initiative: An Overview President's FY2008 Budget and The State Children's Health Insurance Program President's FY 2008 Budget and…