Implementing the ACA’s Medicaid-Related Health Reform Provisions After the Supreme Court’s Decision
On June 28, 2012, the U.S. Supreme Court upheld the constitutionality of the Affordable Care Act (ACA).
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A Guide to the Supreme Court’s Affordable Care Act Decision
Issue BriefThis policy brief describes the Supreme Court's decision on the Affordable Care Act and looks ahead to the implementation of health reform now that questions about the constitutionality of the law have been resolved. Brief (.
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How is the Affordable Care Act Leading to Changes in Medicaid Today? State Responses to Five New Options
Issue BriefThis policy brief examines how states in every region have responded to five key opportunities available under the health reform law to help them prepare for the significant expansion of Medicaid in 2014.
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Using Data and Technology to Drive Process Improvement in Medicaid and CHIP: Lessons From South Carolina
Fact SheetIn the past year, there has been a notable trend of states increasingly utilizing data and technology to modernize, streamline, and gain efficiencies in their Medicaid and CHIP programs.
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The Health Reform Law’s Medicaid Expansion: A Guide to the Supreme Court Arguments
Issue BriefOne significant element of the pending U.S. Supreme Court case challenging the Affordable Care Act is the constitutionality of the law's Medicaid expansion.
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A Guide to the Supreme Court’s Review of the 2010 Health Care Reform Law
Issue BriefWith the Supreme Court preparing to hear oral arguments about challenges to the 2010 Affordable Care Act in March 2012, this Kaiser Family Foundation brief serves as a primer on the pending case, which challenges the constitutionality both of the law's individual mandate that requires most Americans to obtain health insurance and of provisions requiring…
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Performing Under Pressure: Annual Findings of a 50-State Survey of Eligibility, Enrollment, Renewal, and Cost-Sharing Policies in Medicaid and CHIP, 2011-2012
ReportThe annual 50-state survey of Medicaid and CHIP eligibility rules, enrollment and renewal procedures and cost-sharing practices, conducted by the Kaiser Commission on Medicaid and the Uninsured with the Georgetown University Center for Children and Families, found that, despite continued fiscal pressures on states, eligibility policies remained stable in nearly all state Medicaid and Children's…
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Medicaid 101 Tutorial
InteractiveThis tutorial was produced for kaiserEDU.org, a Kaiser Family Foundation website that ceased production in September 2013. The kaiserEDU.org tutorials are no longer being updated but have been made available on kff.org due to demand by professors who are using the tutorials in class assignments. You may search for other tutorials to view on kff.org.
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Performance Measurement Under Health Reform: Proposed Measures For Eligibility and Enrollment Systems and Key Issues and Trade-offs to Consider
Issue BriefThe adoption of new eligibility and enrollment requirements under the Affordable Care Act (ACA) provides states and the federal government an important opportunity to implement a meaningful set of performance measures for eligibility and enrollment systems.
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The Arizona KidsCare CHIP Enrollment Freeze: How Has It Impacted Enrollment and Families?
Issue BriefThis paper examines the impact on enrollment and families of Arizona's Dec. 21, 2009, decision to freeze enrollment in KidsCare, the state's Children's Health Insurance Program (CHIP). The CHIP enrollment freeze, enacted in response to recession-driven state budget pressures, saved the state $12.