Publications and Reports
Kaiser Family Foundation: Enrolling Children and Families in Health Coverage: The Promise of Doing More
This report discusses findings from a 50 state survey of how states take steps to simplify enrollment and reform renewal procedures.
Kaiser Family Foundation Commission on Medicaid and the Uninsured, June 2002
Kaiser Family Foundation: Making It Simple: Medicaid for Children and CHIP Income Eligibility Guidelines and Enrollment Procedures
A study of the enrollment process in children's Medicaid and the Children's Health Insurance Program (CHIP) in the 50 states and Washington, DC.
Kaiser Commission on Medicaid and the Uninsured, October 2000.
Kaiser Family Foundation: Bush Administration Medicaid/SCHIP Proposal
In January 2003, the Bush Administration put forth a proposal to restructure Medicaid and SCHIP in ways that could fundamentally alter the two programs. This policy brief provides a detailed explanation of what is known about the key elements of the proposal and includes a discussion of the proposal's implications.
Kaiser Family Foundation, May 2003
"Medicaid Programs to Assist Low-Income Medicare Beneficiaries: Outreach and Enrollment in Medicare Savings Programs"
A new study examines five states' efforts to bolster enrollment in their Medicare Savings Programs for Medicare beneficiaries who qualify for Medicaid assistance with their premiums and co-insurance.
Through the Medicare Savings Programs, Medicaid plays an important role in assisting dual beneficiaries with their Medicare cost sharing requirements. However, they have historically failed to reach many persons eligible for assistance. The case studies examine how Arizona, Connecticut, Indiana, Minnesota, and Washington have implemented some recommended practices to increase enrollment.
Kaiser Commission on Medicaid and Uninsured, May 2003
"Hardship among the Uninsured: Choosing among Food, Housing, and Health Insurance"
This paper by Sharon Long is part of the series "New Federalism: National Survey of America's Families." The paper combines the 1997 and 1999 National Survey of America's Families (NSAF) to explore the extent to which nonelderly adults without insurance also face other hardships in their daily lives.
Urban Institute, May 2003
"Welfare, Women and Health: The Role of Temporary Assistance for Needy Families"
This issue brief reflects on lessons learned from research about the connection between welfare policies and low-income women’s health. The brief discusses the multiple aspects of the TANF program that can influence women's health and well-being, including access to health insurance, work requirements and training options, links to health care services, and reproductive health provisions.
Kaiser Family Foundation, April 2003
Kaiser Family Foundation: Medicaid at a Glance
This fact sheet provides an overview of the Medicaid program, the populations that it serves, and the services that it covers.
Kaiser Commission on Medicaid and the Uninsured, January 2004
"Is Medicaid Retrenching? State Budgets and Medicaid Enrollment in 2002"
This report, by James W. Fossett and Courtney E. Burke and supported by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, examines the gradual but sizeable expansion of state Medicaid programs that has led to the existence of an extensive and varied constituency of individuals and organizations that depend upon the program financially.
This report finds that this expansion, when combined with other budgetary resources that were one-time in nature, allowed many states to avoid substantial Medicaid cuts in FY 2003 despite lagging revenues.
Nelson A. Rockefeller Institute of Government, February 2003
Kaiser Family Foundation: Medicaid Resource Book
This reference book describes four pivotal aspects of how the Medicaid program operates -- who it covers, what it covers, how it is financed, and how it is administered. It was written to assist the public and policymakers in understanding the structure and operation of the Medicaid program.
Kaiser Family Foundation, January 2003
"Staying Covered: The Importance of Retaining Health Insurance for Low-Income Families"
This report, by Leighton Ku and Donna Cohen Ross of the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, argues that improving insurance retention is both a cost-effective and under-appreciated way to increase the number of insured individuals.
Commonwealth Fund, December 2002
"Five Things Everyone Should Know about SCHIP"
This paper from the Urban Institute examines the State Children's Health Insurance Program on its five-year anniversary.
Urban Institute, October 2002
"SCHIP Dodges the First Budget Ax"
The study, part of the Urban Institute's multiyear SCHIP evaluation being conducted by its Assessing the New Federalism (ANF) project, looked at how SCHIP is faring in Alabama, California, Colorado, Florida, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, Mississippi, New Jersey, New York, Texas, Washington, and Wisconsin.
Urban Institute, October 2002
"Children Losing Health Care Coverage"
Report shows that nearly one million enrollees in the State Children's Health Insurance Program (SCHIP) are in jeopardy of losing health coverage because of reductions in federal funding for the program.
FamiliesUSA, September 2002
"Working Families' Health Insurance Coverage, 1997-2001"
Findings from the Center for Studying Health System Change (HSC) Community Tracking Study Household Survey on insurance coverage and families are presented in this report.
Center for Studying Health System Change, August, 2002
"SCHIP Turns Five: Taking Stock, Moving Ahead"
This issue brief notes the five-year anniversary of the effective
date of Title XXI of the Social Security Act, the State Children’s Health Insurance
Program (SCHIP). It looks at the successes of the program, as well as some of the obstacles SCHIP will face as it attempts to maintain its effectiveness in providing health coverage to
uninsured children and families.
National Health Policy Forum, August 15, 2002
"Uninsured Children (0-18) and SCHIP/MEDICAID Enrollment Estimates"
State-by-state data that quantify the number of children who are eligible but still uninsured.
Urban Institute, August 2002
"OMB Estimates Indicate That 900,000 Children Will Lose Health Insurance Due to Reductions in Federal SCHIP Funding"
Due to a 26 percent reduction in federal SCHIP funding in 2002 and over the next two years, coupled with rising SCHIP enrollments and hence rising SCHIP expenditures, a number of states will face significant SCHIP funding shortfalls over the next several years and be unable to sustain their SCHIP enrollments. As a result, OMB projects a national SCHIP enrollment decline of 900,000 children between 2003 and 2006.
Center on Budget and Policy Priorites, July 2002
"Medicaid and SCHIP: Recent HHS Approvals of Demonstration Waiver Projects Raise Concern"
This report reviews section 1115
waiver requests involving expanding coverage to the uninsured or providing seniors drug coverage that HHS has received since the first of
these initiatives was put into effect in August 2001.
Government Accounting Office (GAO), July 2002
"Covering the Low-Income Uninsured: Assessing the Alternatives"
This issue brief describes and analyzes expansions of Medicaid and SCHIP, tax credits for individually-purchased insurance, and tax credits for employment-based health insurance as options to expand health coverage of the low-income population.
Kaiser Family Foundation, July 2001
Kaiser Family Foundation: Children's Health--Why Health Insurance Matters
This fact sheet summarizes the importance of health insurance for children. Focusing on access to care and health outcomes, the fact sheet quantifies the impact of coverage.
Kaiser Family Foundation, June 2002
"Reaching Out: Successful Efforts to Provide Children and Families with Health Care"
Community Voices, June 2002
Kaiser Family Foundation: Enrolling Uninsured Children in Medicaid and CHIP
This fact sheet outlines issues in outreach and enrollment for Medicaid and CHIP, drawing from lessons learned through a national survey on Medicaid enrollment barriers. It provides a profile of eligible but uninsured children, discusses the greatest barriers to enrollment, and offers strategies to improve enrollment.
Kaiser Family Foundation, January 12, 2000
"Health Policy for Low-Income People: Profiles of 13 States"
Paper is based on site visit interviews with state officials, consumers, and providers and updates changes in health care policy in the following states: Alabama, California, Florida, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, Mississippi, New Jersey, New York, Texas, Washington, and Wisconsin.
Urban Institute, May 2002
"Insuring Low-Income Adults: Does Public Coverage Crowd Out Private?"
This article from Richard Kronick and Todd Gilmer estimates effects of programs to provide subsidized health insurance for low-income persons who were not previously eligible for Medicaid in Minnesota, Washington State, Oregon, and Tennessee on the health insurance status of low-income adults in these states.
Health Affairs, April 2002
"Expanding Family Coverage States' Medicaid Eligibility Policies for Working Families in the Year 2000"
A survey that gathers information from Medicaid eligibility staff in all 50 states and the District of Columbia about the eligibility rules that each state applies to families with children under Medicaid (and in a few cases, non-Medicaid public insurance programs).
Center for Budget and Policy Priorities, January 2, 2002
"States as Innovators in Low-Income Health Coverage: Fast Facts"
This Fast Facts document provides basic information on states' innovation on health coverage.
Urban Institute, July, 2002
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