The Santa Clara County Children’s Health Initiative is an innovative effort to expand low-income children’s health insurance in this California county. This issue brief describes changes in children's medical care and other outcomes during the most recent three years that they had stable...

This article summarizes the availability, completeness, quality, and usability of the encounter data in the MAX file, derived from CMS’s Medicaid Statistical Information System, for enrollees in comprehensive managed care plans. It also gives specific information by state. Most states that...

As a pioneer in broad-based marriage initiatives, the Oklahoma Marriage Initiative (OMI) has charted new territory. Lacking information to guide implementation designs and strategies for pursuing its goals, OMI planners enlisted the help of a range of research experts from around the country....

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,...

To pursue the mission of changing the culture of marriage and divorce, OMI leaders engaged the support of grassroots volunteers in communities across the state. By the end of 2007, more than 120,000 people had participated in marriage education workshops. Overall, workshop and large-scale events...

To address the needs of Medicaid beneficiaries who are elderly or disabled and desire greater control over their personal care, the federal government has encouraged states to offer consumer-directed options. One of the most innovative and flexible consumer-directed-care models is Cash and...

This study assesses self-reported and objectively measured physical activity among U.S. adults according to the 2008 Physical Activity Guidelines for Americans. The National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey of 2005–2006 found that fewer than 10 percent of U.S. adults met the guidelines....

By 3 years of age, children are at significantly higher risk for behavior problems if their mothers experience mental health problems, substance use, or domestic violence in the year after delivery. These maternal conditions often occur together, and as the number of maternal conditions...

This brief presents the results of the first study conducted using the newly merged Medicaid Analytic eXtract (MAX) and National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES) data. The study evaluated the association between Medicaid costs and obesity among adults in 1999–2004. Although the...

The IDEATel demonstration tested the effects of providing home-based telemedicine services to a large number of eligible Medicare beneficiaries who had diabetes and lived in medically underserved areas in New York City and upstate New York. This report updates two earlier reports to Congress and...