Enrollment Retention

This report published in February 2009, with the support of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF), was developed to help states improve their CHIP recruitment and retention efforts. Revisiting ideas summarized in a previous NASHP publication entitled Seven Steps Toward State Success in Covering All Children Continuously, this brief provides more concrete information for states seeking to take the next steps in enrolling more eligible, uninsured children. According to the authors, many states have successfully improved SCHIP enrollment and retention through implementing some of the key themes identified in the report. In addition, the report suggests that states can increase enrollment in Medicaid and the State Children’s Health Insurance Program (SCHIP) without massive changes in policy – providing ideas on how to build on existing administrative and public outreach efforts.

Max Enroll Report

Alice Weiss joined NASHP in 2007, and is the co-director of Maximizing Enrollment: Transforming State Health Coverage, a national initiative funded by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation that aims to help states increase enrollment and retention of eligible children in Medicaid and CHIP and establish and promote best practices as states prepare enrollment and retention systems for health reform implementation in 2014. Alice also provides technical assistance expertise and leadership to other projects relating to eligibility and enrollment issues, health reform implementation, children’s coverage, and Native American health coverage. Alice came to NASHP from the U.S. Senate Finance Committee, where she was health counsel for Chairman Max Baucus (D-MT), with primary responsibility for Medicaid, CHIP, and private health insurance coverage issues. During her tenure at Finance, Alice helped write the bipartisan CHIP Reauthorization Act (CHIPRA), Hurricane Katrina health relief legislation, and the Indian Health Care Improvement Act and was integrally involved in Medicaid reform debates.