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 for improving performance measurement in SCHIP. …

SCHIP has made substantial gains in providing affordable health coverage to children. However, health insurance alone … associated with enrollment in SCHIP. …

Insurance Program (SCHIP) and coverage after they leave the program. Once children enrolled in SCHIP leave public insurance … coverage. The findings suggest that the extent to which SCHIP has substituted for private insurance may be well below the rates …

When SCHIP was enacted in 1997, policymakers sought to safeguard against the substitution of SCHIP for other insurance … coverage. This report synthesizes and assesses evidence from published and unpublished literature and state SCHIP annual … reports on the magnitude of substitution in SCHIP. Wide-ranging estimates across studies are explained as a function of …

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 …