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  • Colorado Expands Kids Coverage Despite Budget Crunch

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    Deb Colburn, Colorado Coalition for the Medically Underserved On Monday, Liz Arjun blogged about the fact that CHIPRA has encouraged many states to move forward on health coverage for children despite challenging budgetary climates.  Colorado is one of those states. The All Kids Covered initiative, a statewide collaborative, worked for passage of the legislation that was signed into law by…

  • Isn’t Coverage That Meets People’s Needs Really the Goal?

    Joan Alker

    Yesterday, the Senate Finance Committee convened a roundtable to focus on the coverage issues in health reform (a small topic). They covered a lot of terrain although in fits and starts.  While the debate over the public plan option continues to take center stage, the Medicaid debate also began to take shape.  Senators Grassley and Hatch both…

  • CCF Turns 4 Today!

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    The Center for Children and Families came into being four years ago today to develop effective, practical strategies to improve access to quality health care for children and families.  As we spend our birthday watching the Senate Roundtable Discussion,”Increasing Access to Health Care Coverage,” we wanted to celebrate with you online (fewer calories that way).…

  • More States Are Saying Yes to Kids Coverage

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    One of the most common questions we get at CCF is, “What are states doing to cover kids?” Since CHIP was reauthorized in February, this question has taken on a new twist: “Are states doing more to cover children since the Children’s Health Insurance Program Reauthorization Act (CHIPRA) of 2009 was signed by President Obama?”  The answer…

  • What does the Senate Finance Committee’s new proposal for transforming the health care delivery system mean for children?

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    By Jocelyn Guyer Nothing! (If I were cooler, I could have twittered this response in.) Seriously. The Senate Finance Committee’s nearly 50-page description of policy options for “Transforming the Health Care Delivery System: Proposals to Improve Patient Care and Reduce Health Care Costs” literally has nothing to say about the steps that could be taken…

  • Good Interpreters Can Save Lives & Limbs

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    Mara Youdelman, Staff Attorney at the National Health Law Program (NHeLP) and Director of the National Language Access Advocacy Project As immigrant communities expand across the United States, many healthcare providers and patients have encountered communication barriers making it difficult for patients to receive proper care.  We think Mara has a better grasp on this issue…

  • Making CHIPRA Work: Enrolling Eligible Children in Health Coverage

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    Authors: Tricia Brooks and Donna Cohen Ross New England Alliance for Children’s Health — Presentation Document April 2009

  • CMS Ready for Questions on CHIPRA

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    By Joe Touschner While some are already celebrating the success of CHIP reauthorization in covering millions more kids, if you’re reading this blog, you probably realize that the number of questions raised by the new law rivals the number of children that need coverage. The law provides states with enough information to move forward on…

  • Pointless Paperwork is a Pitch-Perfect Performance

    Tricia Brooks

    When you talk about an issue long enough, every argument starts to sound the same, so much that even your own mother starts tuning you out.  It’s a bit like “American Idol” or “Britain’s Got Talent” where all the auditions start to blend together. We’ve been crooning on for years about the excessive and unnecessary…

  • 11 Million Kids Now Covered!!! (Not Even Close)

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    By Jocelyn Guyer When I got home from work a few weeks ago my husband handed me a flyer we got in the mail. It praised one of our Senators for her vote for the Children’s Health Insurance Program Reauthorization Act, and exclaimed joyfully that 11 million parents just got the great news that their…

  • Why Blog? Why Now?

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    Why start a blog? At the Georgetown University Center for Children and Families we debated that question for some time before deciding to jump into the blogosphere. With everything going on with the economy and a rapidly shifting dynamic in the health policy world, we thought a blog would provide a good place to meet…

  • CHIP Tips: Medicaid Performance Bonus

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    The CHIP law enacted in 2009 includes a number of important program and financing changes that affect both Medicaid and CHIP. One of these is the Medicaid Performance Bonus, which provides extra financial support to states that succeed in enrolling Medicaid-eligible children above target levels. This brief describes how the Medicaid Performance Bonus works, key…

  • CHIP Tips: Medicaid Performance Bonus “5 of 8” Requirements

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    The CHIP law enacted in 2009 includes a number of important program and financing changes that affect both Medicaid and CHIP. One of these is the Performance Bonus, which provides extra financial support to states that succeed in enrolling Medicaid-eligible children above target levels. To qualify for the Performance Bonus, states much have implemented at…

  • Addressing Crowd-Out

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    In health policy, “crowd out” or “substitution” occurs when public funds substitute private dollars that otherwise would have been spent on health care. It is an inevitable consequence of any effort to subsidize coverage for people in America’s voluntary health care system where individuals and their employers can drop private coverage when better, more affordable…

  • Postcards from CCF – Oregon

    CCFadmin

    As we approach the 1-year anniversary of the Children’s Health Insurance Program Reauthorization Act (CHIPRA), CCF thought we would pay a visit to a state that has successfully translated the promise of that new law into a reality for many Oregonians. Oregon has overcome many obstacles, including gaining legislative approval for increased revenue through an…

  • Implementation Dates of Key CHIPRA Provisions

    CCFadmin

    This chart contains the implementation Dates of Key CHIPRA Provisions.

  • CHIPRA 2009 Overview and Summary

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    On February 4, 2009, President Obama signed into law the Children’s Health Insurance Program Reauthorization Act of 2009 (CHIPRA). The new law (Public Law No. 111-3) is designed to provide coverage to significant numbers of uninsured children and to improve the quality of care that all of America’s children receive. Most notably, it strengthens and extends…

  • Program Design Snapshot: 12-Month Continuous Eligibility

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    Continuous eligibility is a state option that allows children, ages 0-18, to maintain Medicaid or SCHIP coverage for up to one full year, even if families experience a change in income or family status. By implementing this program element, a state ensures that for 365 days a year children get, and keep, the coverage for…

  • Cost Sharing for Children and Families in Medicaid and CHIP

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    Cost sharing is an established part of health insurance in this country, but it is imperative to use it judiciously in Medicaid and CHIP to avoid deterring low-income children and families from using needed health care services. While some families served by these programs are able to pay premiums or make copayments, others, especially those…

  • Coordinating Medicaid and SCHIP

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    SCHIP, launched in 1997, allowed states to expand coverage through their existing Medicaid program, to establish a separate state program, or to adopt a combination approach. The option to establish a separate program has been important to many states, but it also can make it more difficult for families to secure and retain coverage for…