Some children cycled in and out of Medicaid and the Children's Health Insurance Program, experiencing gaps in public …

Using Medicaid data from 2003, this article describes the demographics and diagnoses of youth under 22 receiving mental … state, findings which may call for more research on state service systems and Medicaid policies. …

Two-thirds of children in the United States were income eligible for Medicaid or the State Children's Health Insurance … children ever eligible for SCHIP were eligible at other times for Medicaid. The authors note that as SCHIP is reauthorized …, Congress will need to give states the tools and financial commitment to ensure that uninsured children are enrolled in and …

This article examines the relationship between total state Medicaid spending per child and measures of insurance … adequacy and access to care for publicly insured children. The study found that publicly insured children in states with higher … Medicaid spending were significantly more likely to report having adequate insurance and receiving mental health services when …