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Medicaid & SCHIP: Enrollment and Outreach

Determining Income Eligibility in Children’s Health Coverage Programs: How States Use Disregards in Children’s Medicaid and SCHIP
A new brief describes the purpose of income disregards when considering the Medicaid or SCHIP eligibility of children in working families and examines the implications of prohibiting such disregards for health coverage in public programs.

Turning to Medicaid and SCHIP in an Economic Recession: Conversations with Recent Applicants and Enrollees
Drawn from focus group discussions, this report examines the struggles of families who have suffered financial reversals and lost health coverage in the economic downturn, forcing many to turn to safety-net programs such as Medicaid and SCHIP for the first time.

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The Role of Medicaid in State Economies: A Look at the Research -- January 2009

This policy brief synthesizes the results of 29 studies in 23 states that examine the role Medicaid plays in state and local economies. These studies estimate the economic stimulus derived from Medicaid spending, and also analyze the adverse effects on the state economy from reducing Medicaid spending.

Reports Examine Impact of Economic Turmoil on Health Coverage and State Medicaid Programs -- January 2009

The Kaiser Family Foundation issued several new reports looking at how the recession and growing unemployment is affecting people's health coverage and state Medicaid programs. The new reports were released in conjunction with an Alliance for Health Reform briefing.

Medicaid in a Crunch: A Mid-FY 2009 Update on State Medicaid Issues in a Recession -- January 2009

This report relays the perspective of leading state Medicaid directors to describe the fiscal strain on Medicaid and other safety-net programs as enrollment swells and state tax revenues shrink, raising the prospect of program cutbacks. It augments the most recent Medicaid budget survey report that was based on a survey and interviews with all state Medicaid directors in July and August 2008, at the beginning of state fiscal year 2009.

Rising Unemployment, Medicaid and the Uninsured -- January 2009

This policy brief analyzes the relationship between increases in the unemployment rate and changes in the number of people covered by employer-sponsored health insurance, Medicaid, the State Children’s Health Insurance Program and non-group insurance policies, as well as the financial implications for government budgets.

Medicaid in a Crunch: A Mid-FY 2009 Update on State Medicaid Issues in a Recession -- January 2009

Turning to Medicaid and SCHIP in an Economic Recession: Conversations with Recent Applicants and Enrollees -- December 2008

This issue brief, drawn from five focus group discussions, sheds light on the experiences of families who have suffered financial reversals and lost health coverage in the economic downturn, forcing many to turn to safety-net programs such as Medicaid and SCHIP for the first time.

Short Term Options for Medicaid in a Recession -- December 2008
This policy brief examines several short-term options for strengthening Medicaid at a time of growing demand, including increased federal funding and temporary coverage expansions.

Medicaid: A Primer 2008 -- December 2008
The primer provides an overview of the basic components of Medicaid, the nation's largest health coverage program, which covers 59 million low-income individuals, including children and families, people with disabilities and the elderly who are also covered by Medicare.

The Medicaid Program at a Glance - UPDATE -- November 2008

This fact sheet provides an overview of the Medicaid program, the populations that it serves and the services that it covers.

Emerging Health Information Technology for Children in Medicaid and SCHIP Programs -- November 2008

This report highlights states' innovative use of health information technology in their Medicaid and SCHIP programs to improve their ability to reach and enroll eligible children, improve the quality of care for children, increase communications with families, and continue to modernize their programs.

This policy brief examines several short-term options for strengthening Medicaid at a time of growing demand, including increased federal funding and temporary coverage expansions.

The primer provides an overview of the basic components of Medicaid, the nation's largest health coverage program, which covers 59 million low-income individuals, including children and families, people with disabilities and the elderly who are also covered by Medicare.

This fact sheet provides an overview of the Medicaid program, the populations that it serves and the services that it covers.

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Medicaid/SCHIP: Enrollment and Outreach

In 2001, more than nine million children were without health insurance coverage. The vast majority of these uninsured children reside in low-income families and are eligible to sign up for coverage under Medicaid or SCHIP. Nevertheless, they remain uninsured because their parents have not been able to enroll them in public programs due to a lack of knowledge about the programs and burdensome application and enrollment procedures. After SCHIP was enacted in August of 1997, nearly all states launched outreach campaigns to educate families about the availability of publicly-financed health care coverage for low-income children or took significant steps to simplify their child health application and renewal procedures. More recently, however, some states have reversed improvements in their child health application and renewal procedures in response to fiscal problems, making it once again more difficult for eligible children to enroll in coverage.