The North Carolina Health Choice Enrollment Freeze of 2001: Findings in Brief
This report analyzes enrollment data and conveys focus group findings about the impact of North Carolina's freezing enrollment in their SCHIP program. Report
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The State Fiscal Crisis and Medicaid: Will Health Programs Be Major Budget Targets? Case Studies
ReportThis report includes case studies of how seven states (California, Colorado, Florida, Michigan, Mississippi, New Jersey, and Washington) coped with budgetary problems and how these problems impacted Medicaid and SCHIP. Report
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SCHIP Program Enrollment: June 2002 Update
ReportThis report presents information on the number of children enrolled in SCHIP for each state, for specific months from 1998 to June 2002. As of June 2002, the SCHIP program covered 3.6 million low-income children. An increase of 571,000 from the previous June. REPORT Download
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Disability, Health Coverage, and Welfare Reform
ReportThis report analyzes data from a survey of 42 low-income families with children with moderate or severe disabilities to better understand the impact of welfare reform on health coverage for these families. Report
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New Data Source on Hospital Use by California’s Medi-Cal Enrollees
Other PostNew Data Source on Hospital Use by California's Medi-Cal Enrollees A project sponsored by The Kaiser Family Foundation has resulted in a new source of data that will enhance research on the Medi-Cal program, including the impact of Medi-Cal managed care. The project linked 2 datasets: the Patient Discharge Dataset containing hospital discharge information maintained by the California Office of Statewide Health Planning and Development (OSHPD), and a Medi-Cal dataset containing eligibility and health plan…
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Children and Video Games
Fact SheetThe first fact sheet in a series on topics related to children, media and health focuses on video games -- pulling together the key facts on the amount of time young people spend using video games, how use varies by age, gender and ethnicity, and the best research on the impact of video games on young players. Future issues will focus on violence on television, media ratings, and the online activities of teenagers. Key Facts:…
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Analyses of Kaiser Permanente Services for Insured Children
ReportAnalyses of the Child Health Plan and Other Kaiser Permanente Services for Publicly and Privately Insured Children, a new policy brief prepared for the Kaiser Family Foundation and the California HealthCare Foundation by the Institute for Health Policy Studies at U.C. San Francisco, summarizes the results and policy implications of four different analyses comparing the experiences of children enrolled through Kaiser Permanente in the Child Health Plan, Medi-Cal, Healthy Families, and commercial programs. The aggregate…
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SCHIP Program Enrollment: December 2001 Update
ReportThis report presents information on the number of children enrolled in SCHIP for each state, for specific months from 1998 to 2001. As of December 2001, the SCHIP program covered 3.5 million low-income children. An increase of 780,000 from the previous year. REPORT Download
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Reaching Uninsured Children Through Medicaid: If You Build It Right, They Will Come
ReportThis report analyzes enrollment data of recent years and draws on state experiences to outline the key strategies that will lead to successful enrollment in public health coverage programs and finds that improving enrollment in Medicaid drives improved overall enrollment into a state s public coverage programs. REPORT Download
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Enrolling Children and Families in Health Coverage: The Promise of Doing More
ReportThe 50 state survey of enrollment simplification and renewal procedural reforms, shows that states continue to take steps to transform the Medicaid program from its origins as a welfare-based program into something resembling a more traditional health insurance program. Report (.pdf) >>All 50-State Children's Health Coverage Reports