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...

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...