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Eligibility & Enrollment

  • Rhode Island’s Global Compact Waiver

    Joan Alker

    Author: Joan Alker Joint Session of the Rhode Island House and Senate Finance Committees Testimony Document August 5, 2008

  • North Carolina Eligibility Expansion

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    Summary On July 31, 2007, Governor Mike Easley signed into law NC Kids’ Care. NC Kids’ Care is a new publicly subsidized insurance program for children in families earning 201 percent to 300 percent of the federal poverty level (FPL). Currently, North Carolina provides Medicaid and Health Choice (its SCHIP program) to children with family…

  • Georgetown Center for Children and Families: Strengthening Medicaid Project

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    Author: Vikki Wachino Council of State Governments — Presentation Document May 2008

  • Choosing Premium Assistance: What Does State Experience Tell Us?

    Joan Alker

    Premium assistance programs use federal and state Medicaid and State Children’s Health Insurance Program (SCHIP) funds to purchase private coverage. Overall, few states have premium assistance programs, but interest in premium assistance remains high. This issue brief examines six state premium assistance programs (in Florida, Idaho, Illinois, Oregon, Utah, and Virginia) that allow families to…

  • Out of Touch: A Status Report on CMS’s August 17th Directive

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    By Jocelyn Guyer On August 17, 2007, CMS sent a letter, known as the August 17th directive, to state health officials sharply restricting the ability of states to cover uninsured children using SCHIP funds. New data and analyses from state officials, research organizations, and policy experts raise significant questions about the basis for and the…

  • Covering Uninsured Children: The Impact of the August 17 CHIP Directive

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    Author: Cindy Mann U.S. Senate Finance Committee, Subcommittee on Health Care — Testimony Document April 9, 2008

  • Implications of the August 17th Directive

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    By Jocelyn Guyer American Academy of Pediatrics – Presentation Document March 2008

  • CMS August 17 Directive: Decline in Private Coverage Requirement

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    What the Directive Requires Under the August 17, 2007 directive, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) imposed new conditions that states must meet in order to cover children with gross family incomes above 250 percent of the federal poverty level (FPL) with SCHIP funding. One of these conditions required that there is “assurance…

  • CMS 95% Coverage Rate Requirement

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    What the Directive Required Under the directive, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) imposed new conditions that states must meet in order to cover children with gross family incomes above 250 percent of the federal poverty level (FPL) with SCHIP funds. One of these conditions required that at least 95 percent of children…

  • Children’s Coverage: Moving Forward in Uncertain Times

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    Author: Cindy Mann National Association for Children’s Behavioral Health – Presentation Document March 2008

  • Cover All Kids: Pennsylvania’s State-Wide Campaign to Expand Eligibility

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    In 2004, in an effort to more accurately identify remaining gaps in health care coverage, the Pennsylvania Insurance Department commissioned a survey on the insurance status of citizens in the state. The Department found that while 96 percent of Pennsylvania’s children had coverage, more than 133,500 were uninsured. Of these, approximately 108,000 were eligible for…

  • Pennsylvania: Streamlined Enrollment & Renewal through Technology

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    Summary Pennsylvania has had important success in providing health insurance coverage: according to a 2005 state report only 8 percent of Pennsylvanians, and only 4 percent of the state’s children, are uninsured. A core component of this success has been strong public programs. About one in three children are covered by Medicaid or CHIP (its…

  • SCHIP Provisions in the Administration’s FY2009 Budget

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    This memo provides an analysis of SCHIP provisions in President Bush’s proposed fiscal year 2009 budget. It shows that provisions in the budget proposal would effectively eliminate state flexibility to provide SCHIP coverage for children with family incomes above 250 percent of the federal poverty level, and make it very difficult for states to cover…

  • Covering Uninsured Kids: Missed Opportunities for Moving Forward

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    Author: Cindy Mann U.S. House of Representatives Energy and Commerce Committee, Subcommittee on Health – Testimony Document January 29, 2008

  • Eligibility Options for Children and Families

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    Cindy Mann State Health Advocates — Presentation Document January 2008

  • Moving Backward: Status Report of August 17, 2007 Directive

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    On August 17, 2007, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services issued a directive, imposing new conditions on states that want to use federal funds to offer affordable coverage to children over 250 percent of the federal poverty level. This issue brief reviews the impact of the new rules on children’s coverage to date, finding…

  • Moving Forward? Reauthorization of SCHIP

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    Author: Cindy Mann 2007 Kids Count Conference — Presentation Document October 2007

  • Coverage of Uninsured Children in Moderate-Income Families Under SCHIP

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    By Jocelyn Guyer To help inform the debate over the 2007 reauthorization of SCHIP, this issue brief provides new data on the extent to which low- to moderate-income children are currently enrolled in SCHIP. It shows that children with family income below 300 percent of the federal poverty level presently comprise 99.5 percent of those…

  • American Families Face Harsh Reality: 2,000 Children Join the Ranks of Uninsured Each Day

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    This issue brief provides a portrait of uninsured children in America. It explains that after years of success in providing coverage to more of America’s uninsured children, Census Bureau data show that in 2006 the number of uninsured children increased for the second year in a row. If those trends continue, it is estimated that…

  • The Growing Health Insurance Affordability Gap for Children and Families

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    This issue brief presents data showing the role that flexibility in the SCHIP program has played in allowing states to address the growing gap in health insurance affordability among the nation’s children. It focuses on the increasing costs to families of securing health coverage, both in terms of the absolute costs and as a proportion…