Electronic Enrollment of Newborns into Medicaid: Insights from Oklahoma
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 homes, and reduce administrative costs.
Express Lane Eligibility and Beyond: How Automated Enrollment Can Help Eligible Children Receive Medicaid and CHIP
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.
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.
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.
On the Spot in Illinois: Working toward Reaching and Enrolling All Children and Adolescents
Published in October 2008, this State Health Policy Briefing looks at key aspects of the outreach effort undertaken by Illinois to reach and enroll uninsured children and adolescents in its All Kids program. Although the state employed a breadth of strategies to reach and enroll the state’s uninsured children and youth, administrators believe that a key component of the program’s success was the simplicity of it being available to all uninsured children and adolescents
Seven Steps Toward State Success in Covering Children Continuously
In March 2006, the National Academy for State Health Policy (NASHP) convened a small invitational symposium on child health coverage. This brief summarizes key suggestions which emerged during the symposium discussion about lessons learned over the past decade of state efforts to increase rates of child health coverage.
SCHIP Changes in a Difficult Budget Climate: A Three-State Site Visit Report
This report explores the political and economic forces that have resulted in recent changes in SCHIP programs in three states: Texas, Utah, and Virginia. The report is based on site visits to each of these states and provides a framework for better understanding the dynamics that shape all SCHIP programs.
State Experience with Enrollment Caps in Separate SCHIP Programs
This policy brief examines state policies and procedures concerning enrollment caps and freezes, wait lists, and open enrollment periods in SCHIP programs. The brief provides information from six states that have experience with these strategies.
A State Guide to Online Enrollment for Medicaid and SCHIP
This paper is designed as a resource for states considering, designing, and/or implementing online enrollment systems for their Medicaid and SCHIP programs. It explores the advantages, disadvantages, and implementation issues of these online systems.
