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Maximizing Enrollment for Kids: Results from a Diagnostic Assessment of Enrollment and Retention in Eight States
Children’s coverage | Policy improvement

Maximizing Enrollment for Kids, a $15 million initiative of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF) launched in June 2008 and directed by the National Academy for State Health Policy (NASHP), aims to increase enrollment and retention of eligible children into Medicaid and CHIP programs and to establish and promote best practices among states...

Jennifer Edwards
February 2010
Reimbursing Medical Providers for Preventive Oral Health Services: State Policy Options
Children’s dental care | Workforce

Tooth decay, while highly preventable, is the most common chronic disease among children, and it disproportionately affects children from families with low incomes.  Many state Medicaid agencies are working to increase children’s access to preventive oral health services by reimbursing primary care medical providers for fluoride...

Carrie Hanlon, Policy Specialist
February 2010
State Innovations in EPSDT
Children's coverage | Financing | Outreach

Between 2007 and 2009, the National Academy for State Health Policy (NASHP), with the support of The Commonwealth Fund worked with the Medicaid staff tasked with administering the EPSDT program (EPSDT coordinators) to support their efforts to improve children's access to health and developmental services as well as the quality of those services...

Jennifer May, Policy Specialist
Neva Kaye, Senior Program Director
February 2010
State Multi-Payer Medical Home Initiatives and Medicare’s Advanced Primary Care Demonstration
Dual-eligibles | Financing | Primary care

In September 2009, the U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services announced that Medicare will join selected state-based, multi-payer medical home initiatives in an Advanced Primary Care (APC) demonstration.

Jason Buxbaum, Research Assistant
Mary Takach, Program Manager
February 2010
Electronic Release of Clinical Laboratory Results: A Review of State and Federal Policy
Information technology | State regulation

State and national initiatives to promote health information exchange (HIE) are gaining momentum in the wake of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (ARRA), which provides over $40 billion to promote health information technology.  States face particular challenges in promoting HIE for clinical laboratory results.  This...

Kitty Purington, Policy Specialist
Shaun Alfreds, Program Director
January 2010