This report examined the feasibility of creating a Medicaid sample based on annual MAX files—a “Mini-MAXâ€â€”to make it easier for users to design and conduct MAX studies and make MAX data accessible to a broader community of Medicaid researchers, policymakers, program...

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...

Provides a national profile of the growing role of Medicaid-dominated plans in the changing Medicaid managed care marketplace. To date, basic information on these plans has been lacking, partly because many are not licensed as HMOs by states. Call the Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation at (800)...

Allowance programs are a conceptually appealing way to help people with disabilities and their families pay for goods and services that such individuals often need. The programs provide recipients with financial resources that they can use in a flexible and efficient manner to improve their...