Examines the importance of good administrative data to Medicaid and SCHIP programs, as well as the cost to states of not improving their administrative files. Also suggests ways that states can improve their data files to make them better tools for guiding policy decisions.

State Medicaid and SCHIP agencies provide vital health coverage to low-income populations and other groups, but they have limited administrative resources to support enrollment and renewal. This brief looks at experiences of some state Medicaid and SCHIP agencies in using a process change model...

This report to Congress, the first from Mathematica's SCHIP evaluation for ASPE, is based on information collected in 2001. It draws on case studies in six of the ten evaluation states: California, Colorado, Louisiana, Missouri, New York, and Texas. Although current state budget shortfalls...

By their nature, advocacy organizations form partnerships and alliances with others to achieve their public policy goals. Some alliances are longstanding, while others are temporary or opportunistic and may bring together groups to support a particular legislative or administrative approach or...