Maintaining Health Coverage and Securing the Medicaid Safety Net in a Sluggish Economy
The current economy is a key concern as federal and state leaders worry about the expected rise in unemployment and the related loss of employer health coverage.
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Medicaid and Welfare Reform: States’ Use of the $500 Million Federal Fund
ReportThis report reviews how states have responded to the $500 million federal fund that was created by the federal welfare reform legislation in 1996 to help states maintain Medicaid coverage for individuals affected by welfare reform.
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Putting Express Lane Eligibility into Practice
ReportA new report details how the practice of express lane eligibility, or utilizing information from other public benefit programs, can quicken the enrollment of low-income children into the Medicaid and CHIP programs.
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Marketing Medicaid and CHIP: A Study of State Advertising Campaigns
ReportA Survey and Analysis of What States Are Doing Based on interviews of state officials and analysis of tv, radio, and print ads from the states, this report is the first nationwide analysis of states' advertising campaigns to enroll eligible kids into health coverage programs.
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The Future of Medi-Cal: Challenges at the Federal, State, and County Level
Issue BriefThis issue brief explores how California and other states are attempting to preserve a meaningful set of benefits under Medicaid during the current budget crisis, when services are most needed and state resources are most scarce. This brief is being distributed in Sacramento at the latest California Health Policy Roundtable on Tuesday, May 13, 2003.
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Health Insurance Premiums and Cost-Sharing: Findings from the Research on Low-Income Populations
Issue BriefHealth Insurance Premiums and Cost-Sharing: Findings from the Research on Low-Income Populations This policy brief reviews studies on the impact of premiums and cost-sharing, particularly on low-income populations, and finds that premiums generally depressed participation in public programs and cost-sharing affected health utilization, access and outcomes.
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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.
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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 (.
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Making It Simple: State Profiles
ReportMedicaid for Children and CHIP Guidelines and Eligibility for Enrollment Report…
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New Numbers on Enrollment of Uninsured Children
ReportThis report reveals that the total number of children enrolled in state CHIP programs had grown to 1.8 million by December 1999, a 112% increase from December 1998. Although enrollment doubled in 20 states during that year, growth did begin to moderate in several states that had implemented their programs relatively earlier on.