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Electronic Enrollment of Newborns into Medicaid: Insights from Oklahoma
Enrollment | Health Information Technology | Medicaid
This issue brief highlights the state of Oklahoma, which recently implemented an electronic enrollment system for newborn children in its hospitals. By replacing a paper-based enrollment process with an electronic system, Oklahoma has been able to improve efficiency and program analysis, streamline billing, facilitate the establishment of medical...
Chris Cantrell, Policy Analyst
June 2010
BadgerCare Plus: Medicaid and Subsidies Under One Umbrella
BadgerCare Plus | Health reform | Subsidies
Many proposals for federal health reform include two key elements: a Medicaid expansion to include all people below a certain income level; and some form of subsidy to make private insurance coverage more affordable for individuals and families.  Wisconsin’s BadgerCare Plus program contains many elements of a Medicaid-plus-subsidies...
Katharine Witgert, Program Manager
August 2009
Presumptive Eligibility for Pregnant Women
Eligibility | Improving coverage | Low-income
Early prenatal care plays a critical role in the health of pregnant women and their babies. Access to early prenatal care can lead to better birth outcomes, healthier babies, and reduced health care costs. Presumptive eligibility in Medicaid has become an important strategy for improving access to prenatal care for low-income pregnant women....
Elena Tyler Broaddus
December 2008
The Role of Physicians in Children’s Oral Health
Children's dental care | Dental benefits | Dental providers | Improving coverage
Dental disease is the most common chronic disease among children in the United States. Although Medicaid entitles children to medically necessary dental care under the Early and Periodic Screening, Diagnostic and Treatment (EPSDT) benefit, many children do not see a dentist until age 3 or later – even though cavity risk factors can be well...
Chris Cantrell, Policy Analyst
December 2008
Medicaid 1115 Family Planning Demonstration Waiver Programs
Children's Health Insurance | Family Planning | Medicaid Waivers
Twenty-seven states have received Medicaid 1115 demonstration waivers to provide family planning services to individuals not otherwise eligible for Medicaid or the State Children’s Health Insurance Program (SCHIP). Two other states have applied for waivers. This updated State Health Policy Monitor examines the status of these waivers, and...
Sara Sills
November 2008

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