This study assessed the effectiveness of a discharge planning program implemented in three Oklahoma state prisons to assist inmates with serious mental illness to enroll in Medicaid on the day of release or soon thereafter. The program had significant positive effects. On the day of release, 25...

This congressionally mandated analysis of state evaluations provides the first comprehensive picture of the early years of the SCHIP program, using a standardized framework developed to facilitate cross-state comparisons. For all 50 states, the report describes program implementation and...

The Money Follows the Person (MFP) demonstration supports states' efforts to help Medicaid beneficiaries living in long-term care institutions transition back to community-based residences and make long-term care services and supports more accessible. Using nursing home assessment data, this...

Adds more weight to the body of evidence showing that declines in the welfare caseload are likely to have a noticeable effect on state Medicaid programs, in terms of overall enrollment, caseload mix, and per capita expenditures. Also points to continuity problems in enrollment, which may be...

Little is known about the effectiveness of outreach activities in SCHIP. This paper identifies outreach activities and other factors that are associated with state and local trends in the number of new SCHIP enrollees.

Examines the implications of continuous coverage for children using Medicaid enrollment and payment data for California, Michigan, Missouri, and New Jersey. Finds that discontinuity affects a small proportion of children who would qualify for continuous coverage and that some groups of children,...

The Mini-Max User's Guide is intended to expand and support the community of researchers using Medicaid data by providing background information on the Medicaid program, highlighting important features of the Mini-MAX files, and providing guidance to researchers about issues to be considered...

This report presents findings from Mathematica’s study of Ohio’s SCHIP program. The program, which focused on making Medicaid more accessible and consumer friendly, covered nearly 208,000 children in 2003. It has relied on decentralized outreach and eligibility processes managed by counties,...

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 39;47....