Addresses what is known about care coordination, an innovative approach to meeting the psychosocial and medical needs of the growing number of people with special health care needs enrolled in Medicaid managed care. Although there is no standard definition of care coordination, the report notes...

Retention is key in achieving SCHIP’s mission to reduce the number of uninsured children. This paper synthesizes the available evidence on disenrollment rates and reasons for disenrollment to produce estimates of SCHIP retention rates. The paper also summarizes the evidence on state SCHIP...

Expanding health coverage for children is at the center of policy debates as reauthorization of the 10-year-old State Children’s Health Insurance Program (SCHIP) continues. This report presents findings from Mathematica’s comprehensive seven-year evaluation of SCHIP for the Centers for...

Widespread and growing use of the internet as a medium for disseminating and gathering information has raised concerns about users' ability to assess the quality of the health and medical information presented on websites. The Office of Disease Prevention and Health Promotion has identified six...

Suggests that the program is picking up speed after some initial implementation challenges, although states vary in the extent to which they have expanded coverage for low-income children.

In recent years, CMS has focused increasing attention on the reporting of program performance measures within SCHIP. This memo analyzes trends in state reporting from fiscal years 2003 to 2005, compares SCHIP performance measures to Medicaid and commercial benchmarks, and makes recommendations...

SCHIP has made substantial gains in providing affordable health coverage to children. However, health insurance alone does not ensure access to needed health services. This paper presents recent evidence about changes in access to care associated with enrollment in SCHIP.

Explores reasons for differences in insurance estimates for the two surveys and suggests areas for future research to help measure the number of uninsured more precisely.