Eligibility & Enrollment
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Eligibility Options for Children and Families
Cindy Mann State Health Advocates — Presentation Document January 2008
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Moving Backward: Status Report of August 17, 2007 Directive
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…
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Moving Forward? Reauthorization of SCHIP
Author: Cindy Mann 2007 Kids Count Conference — Presentation Document October 2007
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Coverage of Uninsured Children in Moderate-Income Families Under SCHIP
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…
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American Families Face Harsh Reality: 2,000 Children Join the Ranks of Uninsured Each Day
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…
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The Growing Health Insurance Affordability Gap for Children and Families
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…
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Public/Private Coverage in SCHIP Reauthorization: Premium Assistance and Other Issues
Author: Joan Alker American Academy of Pediatrics, Committee on Federal Government Affairs — Presentation Document September 2007
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Moving Backward: New Federally Imposed Limits on States’ Ability to Cover Children
On August 17, 2007, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services issued a SCHIP directive, imposing new conditions on states that want to offer affordable SCHIP coverage to children over 250 percent of the federal poverty level. This issue brief details the policy changes under the directive and the implications they will have on states…
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Considerations for Moving Forward
Author: Cindy Mann Health Foundation of Greater Cincinnati – Presentation Document August 2007
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States Moving Forward: Will the Federal Government Remain a Partner?
Author:Cindy Mann Capitol Beat — Presentation Document August 2007
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Children’s Coverage: Getting to the Finish Line: A View from the States
Author: Cindy Mann California State Legislature — Presentation Document June 2007
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Express Lane Eligibility: Using Public Programs to Enroll Eligible Children into Medicaid/SCHIP
Author: Dawn Horner State Coverage Initiatives Program — Presentation Document May 2007
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Evaluating Florida’s Medicaid Pilots: Early Reactions from Doctors and Patients
Author: Joan Alker Assessing Florida’s Medicaid Reform Project — Presentation Document May 2007
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Family Coverage Under SCHIP Waivers
This report examines 11 states that have been granted waivers to provide health care coverage to parents using SCHIP funds. It shows that while SCHIP parent enrollment nationwide is relatively small, the coverage provided helps fill a major coverage gap for low-income parents and their families.
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Children’s Health Coverage: States Moving Forward
This report provides results from a nationwide review of state efforts to provide health care coverage to uninsured children between January 2006 and mid-April 2007. It shows that a large number of states throughout the country have proposed, passed, or implemented initiatives to cover more children through three primary strategies: finding, enrolling, and keeping SCHIP-…
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Children’s Coverage: On the Move
Author: Cindy Mann Grantmakers for Health and Grantmakers for Children, Youth, & Families — Presentation Document April 2007
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Medicaid at the Ten-Year Anniversary of SCHIP: Looking Back and Moving Forward
By Jocelyn Guyer This issue brief examines the relative roles of Medicaid and SCHIP in providing health coverage and reducing the uninsurance rate of low-income children. It also provides evidence of the necessity for additional Medicaid reforms to ensure that Medicaid will continue to meet the needs of low-income children and families.
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States Affected by Proposals to Restrict SCHIP Coverage Options
By Jocelyn Guyer This issue brief provides an analysis on which states would be affected by policy proposals to limit SCHIP funding to children with family income at or below 200 percent of the federal poverty level. It shows that more than half of the states (28 states) are potentially affected by this type of…
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SCHIP Funding for Parents
By Jocelyn Guyer This memo provides information on the history, scope, and value of SCHIP financing for family coverage. It shows that that although SCHIP coverage for parents represents a small fraction of SCHIP funding, it has provided states with flexibility to address the growing number of uninsured Americans.
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Premium Assistance Programs: Do They Work for Low-Income Families?
Author:Joan Alker U.S. House of Representatives Education and Labor Committee, Subcommittee on Health, Employment, Labor and Pensions – Testimony Document March 15, 2007