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  • Keeping Score -How Well Are Medicaid and CHIP Doing?

    Tricia Brooks

    This week’s national football league conference championship games and the theme my colleague, Jocelyn Guyer, picked for her latest blog  (where she admits to an obsession with Tom Brady) got me was thinking about statistics and scores as it relates to children’s coverage. While the uninsured rate is the final score, there are a lot…

  • Performing Under Pressure: Annual Findings of a 50-State Survey of Eligibility, Enrollment, Renewal, and Cost-Sharing Policies in Medicaid and CHIP, 2011-2012

    CCFadmin

    Amid ongoing state budget pressures, a requirement in the Affordable Care Act (ACA) that states maintain eligibility in Medicaid and CHIP was central in preserving coverage during 2011. In addition, more than half of states (29) made improvements in their programs. Most of these improvements involved greater use of technology to boost program efficiency and…

  • Medicaid and CHIP – Performing Under Pressure

    Tricia Brooks

    By Martha Heberlein and Tricia Brooks For those of you who have been anxiously awaiting (and you can count us, too!) the release of the annual survey on Medicaid and CHIP, today is your lucky day.  In partnership with the Kaiser Commission on Medicaid and the Uninsured, we released “Performing Under Pressure: Annual Findings of…

  • Secrets to Success: An Analysis of Four States at the Forefront of the Nation’s Gains in Children’s Health Coverage

    CCFadmin

    The uninsured rate for children dropped to 8% in 2010, the lowest point ever achieved since the federal government began tracking this statistic in 1987. The following issue-brief attempts to gain an increased understanding of factors contributing to the success in coverage of children by conducting site visits and interviews with key stakeholders in four…

  • Essential Health Benefits: What Does the CHIP Experience Show Us?

    Joan Alker

    So my previous blog on this topic talked about how the CHIP/Essential Health Benefits analogy has its limits – still it is interesting to look at the choices that states have made for their benefits packages in separate state CHIP programs. According to data collected and released by NASHP from mid-2008, the most popular choice…

  • NASHP and Children’s Dental Health Project Issue Report

    Guest

    By Leigha Basini, National Academy for State Health Policy The new year brings many new things: new discussions about CCIIO’s newly released Essential Health Benefits (EHB) Bulletin and benefit provisions in the seemingly still new Affordable Care Act.  But state CHIP directors may also be thinking about a slightly older benefit provision–the CHIPRA dental mandate.  NASHP,…

  • ‘Tis the Season for Medicaid Performance Bonuses

    Tricia Brooks

    ‘Twas nearing the end of two thousand eleven Performance bonus time; new states total seven In addition to sixteen that earned a bonus last year Twenty-three states have $296 million reasons to cheer   Child advocates are proud of the effort they led Tactics for removing red tape dance in their heads With Medicaid and…

  • UPDATE: Arizona – A KidsCare Band-Aid

    CCFadmin

    By Martha Heberlein We’ve written before about Arizona’s response to the recession–substantial budget cuts and the only enrollment freeze in the nation in its CHIP program, KidsCare. Instituted almost two years ago, there are now 129,000 kids on the waiting list for access to affordable health coverage. A new (but somewhat familiar) proposal has emerged to…

  • Despite Economic Challenges, Progress Continues: Children’s Health Insurance Coverage in the United States from 2008-2010

    CCFadmin

    In this paper, health insurance data from the Census Bureau’s annual “American Community Survey” was analyzed in order to get a more accurate depiction of children’s coverage. Even though the number of children living in poverty has increased almost 19 percent over a three-year period, the number of children without health insurance declined 14 percent–…

  • Medicaid & CHIP Bring Uninsured Rate for Children Down 14%

    Joan Alker

    Even as unemployment and child poverty has grown, the uninsured rate for children has decreased by 14% nationwide, according to the report we just released today at back-to-back Capitol Hill briefings.  It was great to share this good news at House and Senate briefings with overflowing crowds.  The briefings were sponsored by the “Children’s Health…

  • 11 Tips to Help Children Get Enrolled in Medicaid and CHIP

    CCFadmin

    By Judy Darnell, United Ways of California One of United Ways of California’s goals is to improve the health of children and adults. We know that a lack of health care coverage often means that primary care is an unattainable luxury. Yet primary care is so important in preventing or treating illness before it becomes…

  • Texas Has Highest % of Uninsured Children in Nation – Let’s Change That

    Guest

    By Kelli King-Jackson, Texas Children’s Defense Fund “Now we see everything that’s going wrong with the world and those who lead it. We just feel like we don’t have the means to rise above and beat it.  So we keep waiting – waiting on the world to change.”    John Mayer – Waiting on the…

  • Children’s Health is a National Priority

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    By Patrick McIntyre, United Way When it comes to the health of our nation, United Way cares about ensuring that everyone has health insurance, that folks eat well, and that Americans remain active and energized. Specifically for children, Medicaid and the Children’s Health Insurance Program provide vital health care to children whose families don’t receive…

  • Exciting News About ARKIDS and Medicaid

    Elisabeth Wright Burak

    By Elisabeth Wright Burak, Arkansas Advocates for Children and Families Here’s a sneak peak at an exciting trend we’ve just uncovered in recent insurance coverage data. In a nutshell: the number of uninsured kids in Arkansas is dropping, even as families continue to feel the effects of the recession. As lawmakers debate the future of Medicaid…

  • Moms Rising and CCF Host Blog Carnival to Connect Kids to Coverage

    CCFadmin

    and Anita Jackson, Mom’s Rising Despite the increase in childhood poverty, our nation has managed to reduce the number of children going without health insurance during these tough economic times thanks to Medicaid and the Children’s Health Insurance Program.   This is great news but there is more work to be done as too many of…

  • Updated Research Gives Fresh Clues to Reaching Uninsured Children

    Tricia Brooks

    A recent survey by Lake Research Partners refreshes our knowledge of barriers to enrollment in Medicaid and CHIP. Commissioned by CMS for its Connecting Kids to Coverage initiative, the survey interviewed nearly 2,000 parents with income at or below 250% of the poverty level; about one-third each with uninsured children, children enrolled in Medicaid/CHIP, or…

  • Medicaid & CHIP Approval Rating Higher than Employer Coverage Among Parents

    Tricia Brooks

    Consistently over the years, studies have shown a high level of satisfaction by parents whose children are covered by Medicaid or CHIP. So it’s no surprise that a recent survey conducted by Lake Research Partners for CMS confirms this finding once again. What is somewhat surprising is that parents with kids enrolled in Medicaid and…

  • Comments on Proposed Medicaid, CHIP, and Exchange Eligibility Rules

    CCFadmin

    CCF comments on the proposed rule that implements sections of the ACA related to Medicaid and CHIP eligibility, enrollment simplification, and coordination.(Federal Register, 76: 51148-5199). CCF comments on the proposed rule on eligibility determinations for Exchange participation and insurance affordability programs and standards for employer participation in SHOP. (Federal Register 76: 51202- 51237). CCF addendum…

  • Census Data Provide Disturbing Snapshot of Economy’s Toll on Children and Families

    CCFadmin

    Georgetown University Health Policy Institute Center for Children and Families Co-Director Joan Alker issued the following statement in response to the release of the U.S. Census Bureau’s Income, Poverty and Health Insurance Coverage in the United States (2010) report:          “The census data released today provided a very disturbing snapshot of the economic…

  • The Arizona KidsCare CHIP Enrollment Freeze: How Has it Impacted Enrollment and Families?

    CCFadmin

    On December 21, 2009, Governor Jan Brewer of Arizona imposed an enrollment freeze in the state’s CHIP program, KidsCare. It is currently the only state in the country with a freeze in place. As of July 15, 2011, there were over 108,000 children on the waiting list for KidsCare coverage, which continues to grow at…