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Maximizing Enrollment

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...

December 2011
Medicaid's Role in the Health Benefit Exchange: A Road Map for States
Affordable Care Act | Exchanges | Medicaid

State Medicaid programs are well positioned to serve multiple roles in the development and administration of state Health Benefit Exchanges being implemented under the Affordable Care Act (ACA). Looking ahead to 2014, Medicaid will be both an option in the continuum of health insurance coverage and an essential partner in developing,...

Deborah Bachrach
March 2011
Maximizing Enrollment for Kids: Results from a Diagnostic Assessment of Enrollment and Retention in Eight States
Children’s coverage | Medicaid | 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...

Jennifer Edwards
February 2010
Express Lane Eligibility and Beyond: How Automated Enrollment Can Help Eligible Children Receive Medicaid and CHIP
Eligibility | Enrollment | Information technology
As states work to insure more children in challenging economic times, a new report funded by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF) explores how states can identify and enroll eligible but uninsured children by borrowing automated strategies that have proven effective in helping eligible people receive other public and private benefits....
Stan Dorn
April 2009
Maximizing Kids’ Enrollment in Medicaid and SCHIP: What Works in Reaching, Enrolling and Retaining Eligible Children
Enrollment | Medicaid | Retention

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...

Victoria Wachino, M.P.P.
Alice Weiss, Program Director
February 2009