Program (SCHIP) at some point from 1996 to 2000. One in five were income eligible for both programs, and 73 percent of … children ever eligible for SCHIP were eligible at other times for Medicaid. The authors note that as SCHIP is reauthorized …

There are many reasons to promote retention and continuous enrollment for low-income children in SCHIP and Medicaid: to … costs for states, and to maintain stable enrollment in managed care organizations. This paper examines SCHIP enrollment and … particular attention to how SCHIP and traditional Medicaid work together to provide continuous public health insurance coverage. …

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 policies that influence retention. …