Improving Systems
When I was the CHIP Director in New Hampshire, we thought that achieving a 95% rate of coverage for kids was the high bar. As a country, we are not only closing in on that goal, but leading states have raised the bar to 98% and beyond. And while we must continue to eliminate disparities […]
A large body of evidence shows that, compared to low-income uninsured children, Medicaid has been highly successful in providing children with a usual source of care and regular well-child care while significantly reducing unmet or delayed needs for medical care, dental care, and prescription drugs due to costs. Nonetheless, quality improvement centers on the notion […]
by Jesse Cross-Call, originally posted on cbpp.org An updated policy for how the federal government helps finance the costs of Medicaid services for American Indians and Alaska Natives will improve the delivery of care and save states money. Medicaid plays a critical role in providing health care to American Indians and Alaska Natives; a quarter […]
Policymakers in many states have turned more and more to private managed care insurers to manage their Medicaid programs. More than half of people on Medicaid across the country are in some sort of “risk-based managed care organizations (MCOs)” and 39 states – according to comprehensive research by the Kaiser Family Foundation – use such […]
While we all breathed a collective sigh of relief when CMS did not release the Medicaid and CHIP Managed Care proposed rules prior to the Memorial Day weekend, we have our work cut out for us the next few weeks (months) as CMS released 653 pages of proposed rules late yesterday. Organizations have until July 27th […]
By Naomi Stark, Georgetown CCF Research Assistant The CDC’s National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS) recently published a report on Emergency Room (ER) use among children in the U.S. using data gathered from the 2012 National Health Interview Survey (NHIS). Authors explored the relationship of child coverage type (Private, Medicaid and Uninsured) to the frequency […]
