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Using Data to Drive State Improvement in Enrollment and Retention Performance
The Maximizing Enrollment program has worked intensively with eight states to help them increase their use of Medicaid and CHIP enrollment and retention data to monitor and improve their performance outcomes. This issue brief presents recommendations from Maximizing Enrollment and Mathematica Policy Research for twelve core measures that states may want to consider implementing as they plan for new eligibility and enrollment rules and systems to monitor and improve their program’s performance; and track the results of eligibility policy changes, including those related to the Affordable Care Act
December 2011» -
Maximizing Kids’ Enrollment in Medicaid and SCHIP: What Works in Reaching, Enrolling and Retaining Eligible Children
Nearly two thirds of the nation's 8.9 million uninsured children are eligible but not enrolled in Medicaid and SCHIP. This new report from the National Academy for State Health Policy, the National Program Office for the Maximizing Enrollment for Kids program of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, examines strategies states can use to increase enrollment in these two programs.
Building on a 2006 NASHP report, the new paper reviews literature and expert opinions to elaborate on seven strategies states can implement to maximize enrollment for uninsured children eligible for public coverage. From simplifying the enrollment process to implementing the latest technology and urging political leaders to make enrollment a priority, the report lays out key steps that states may consider when tackling the difficult issues of making sure the pathways for enrollment and renewal for all eligible children are as efficient as possible.
February 2009 -
Maximizing Kids’ Enrollment in Medicaid and SCHIP: What Works in Reaching, Enrolling and Retaining Eligible Children
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.
February 2009 -
What Parents Say: Why Eligible Children Lose SCHIP
Based on six focus groups in three states, this paper details parent perceptions of the SCHIP program and includes a summary of feedback on why some families have not continued to enroll their children in the program. Part of a larger, seven-state study, the report pays special attention to issues of retention, disenrollment, and re-enrollment.June 2001 -
Alice Weiss, Program Director
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. -
Using Data to Drive State Improvement in Enrollment and Retention Performance
Monday, November 21, 20113:00 pm - 4:00 pmEDTThe Maximizing Enrollment program has worked intensively with eight states to help them increase their use of Medicaid and CHIP enrollment and retention data to monitor and improve their performance outcomes. This issue brief presents recommendations from Maximizing Enrollment and Mathematica Policy Research for twelve core measures that states may want to consider implementing as they plan for new eligibility and enrollment rules and systems to:
- Monitor and improve their program’s performance
- Track the results of eligibility policy changes, including those related to the Affordable Care Act
To read the full report please click here.
