Medicaid Facts: Medicaid’s Role for Children – Fact Sheet
In 1995, 17.5 million children -- one-quarter of all children under age 18 -- had Medicaid coverage for health care services.
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SCHIP-Enrolled Children with Special Health Care Needs
Report: An Assessment of Coordination Efforts Between State SCHIP and Title V Programs This study explores how the State Children’s Health Insurance Program serves children with special needs and assesses the role of the Title V Maternal and Child Health Services Block Grant program in filling in gaps in coverage.
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A Decade of SCHIP: Experience and Issues for Reauthorization
Issue BriefA Decade of SCHIP: Experience and Issues for Reauthorization As the SCHIP program is due for reauthorization in 2007, this brief explores some lessons learned and highlights key policy issues for the upcoming debate. Issue Brief (.
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Health Insurance Coverage and Access to Care for Low-Income Non-Citizen Children
Issue BriefLargely due to a high uninsured rate, low-income, non-citizen children have very poor access to care, with many lacking a regular provider and going without preventive care. This brief examines health coverage and access to care for low-income, non-citizen children to provide insight into the challenges they face in obtaining health insurance and accessing care.
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Primers on Key Health Care Topics and Programs
Issue BriefThe Kaiser Family Foundation maintains a number of primers providing overviews of key health care programs and issues. Written by Foundation staff, each primer provides key data and information that helps illustrate the topic and its relevance for the nation's health care system.
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CHIP TIPS: Citizenship Documentation Changes
Issue BriefThis brief, the third in a series, examines changes to citizenship documentation requirements under the Children's Health Insurance Program Reauthorization Act of 2009. The law extends the requirement to document citizenship that applied in Medicaid to CHIP as well.
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Children’s Health Coverage: Medicaid, CHIP, and Next Steps
Event Date:EventThe Alliance for Health Reform and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation co-sponsored this briefing to examine the factors which influence children's coverage.
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Generation M2: Media in the Lives of 8- to 18-Year-Olds
Poll FindingGeneration M2: Media in the Lives of 8- to 18-Year-Olds is the third in a series of large-scale, nationally representative surveys by the Foundation about young people’s media use.
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Express Lane Eligibility: How to Enroll Large Groups of Eligible Children in Medicaid and CHIP
ReportThis issue paper explores the potential for increasing enrollment in children's health insurance programs through "Express Lane Eligibility." Express Lane Eligibility is the accelerated enrollment of low-income uninsured children already participating in other income-comparable publicly funded programs, such as WIC or school lunch, into Medicaid or CHIP.
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SCHIP Managed Care Contracting
ReportThe fourth in a series of reports on implementation issues and challenges in the first year of S-CHIP finds that states have been able to enter arrangements with plans for their S-CHIP population fairly easily.