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- The State Children's Health Insurance Program: Successes, Shortcomings, and Challenges
- This paper examines successes and shortcomings of the State Children's Health Insurance Program SCHIP. SCHIP is a source of coverage for millions of children, improving their access to health care and sparking innovation in program design and improvements in Medicaid. However, SCHIP adds to the complexity of the insurance system...
- White papers 2004-10-01
- SCHIP's Impact in Three States: How Do the Most Vulnerable Children Fare?
- This study provides consistent evidence, from three very diverse states with heterogeneous populations and distinct programs that the State Children's Health Insurance Program SCHIP increased access to and satisfaction with health care among enrolled low-income children and that vulnerable children - minorities, children and adolescents with special health care needs,...
- White papers 2004-10-01
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- Statement by the Press Secretary: Reauthorization of SCHIP
- WASHINGTON -- The President strongly supports reauthorization of the State Children's Health Insurance Program SCHIP. His SCHIP proposal expands funding by 20 percent and maintains a focus on covering children in poor families. Unfortunately, Congress's bill goes far beyond SCHIP's mandate by covering some higher income households and adults....
- Research articles 2007-09-21
- Medicaid and SCHIP: States' Premium and Cost Sharing Requirements for Beneficiaries
- The paper identifies and compares states' Medicaid and SCHIP beneficiary contribution requirements for children, identifies states' Medicaid beneficiary contribution requirements for adults and determines the extent to which states' Medicaid and SCHIP beneficiary contribution requirements have changed since 2001. It reveals that GAO surveyed Medicaid and SCHIP program offices in...
- White papers 2004-03-01
- SCHIP: HHS Continues to Approve Waivers That Are Inconsistent With Program Goals
- The document consist a report the purpose of which is to raise legal and policy concerns about the need to clearly establish purposes and populations for which SCHIP funds may be spent. The specific concerns related to HHS's approval of a HIFA waiver for Arizona, which proposed using unspent SCHIP...
- White papers 2004-01-05
- Simplifying Children's Medicaid and SCHIP
- The states have implemented the State Children's Health Insurance Program SCHIP in a variety of ways. This paper depicts about these choices and estimates the resulting enrollment impacts. Many widely adopted policies, including mail-in applications and twelvemonth continuous eligibility, have had limited impacts. Other policies that increase enrollment, including presumptive...
- White papers 2004-06-01
- The Impact of Program Structure on Children's Disenrollment From Medicaid and SCHIP
- Program fragmentation might exacerbate disenrollment of children from Medicaid and the State Children's Health Insurance Program SCHIP. Using data from 2001-2004, this paper estimates the number of children who switched programs and the number who "Dropped Out" of public insurance, becoming uninsured despite continuing eligibility. Roughly two million children a...
- White papers 2005-12-01
- Schip funds.(Brief Article)
- SCHIP FUNDS--Restoring funds to the State Children's Health Insurance Program SCHIP is the main focus of a last-ditch lobbying effort spearheaded by the Children's Defense Fund CDF. About $1.1 billion of states' unused SCHIP funds reverted to the U.S. Treasury Sept. 30, said CDF, which is...
- Research articles 2004-11-22
- SCHIP reauthorization likely by September.(State Children's Health Insurance Program)
- The State Children's Health Insurance Program SCHIP is likely to be reauthorized in the coming months, according to many on Capitol Hill. On the heels of a $650 million supplemental appropriation for SCHIP in the recent emergency spending bill, SCHIP has become a top...
- Research articles 2007-06-11
- HHS Approves Idaho Plan to Get More Kids Enrolled in SCHIP
- WASHINGTON, June 10 /U.S. Newswire/ -- HHS Secretary Tommy G. Thompson today approved a plan by Idaho to expand the income level for eligibility for the State Children's Health Insurance Program SCHIP to include reach as many as 5,600 children in the neWASHINGTON, June 10 /U.S. Newswire/ -- HHS Secretary...
- Research articles 2004-06-10
- HHS Approves California Plan to Get More Kids Enrolled in SCHIP
- WASHINGTON, June 10 /U.S. Newswire/ -- HHS Secretary Tommy G. Thompson today approved a plan by California to raise the income level for eligibility for the State Children's Health Insurance Program SCHIP to include more children. WASHINGTON, June 10 /U.S. Newswire/ -- HHS Secretary Tommy G. Thompson today approved...
- Research articles 2004-06-10
- HHS Approves New York Plan to Keep More Kids Enrolled in SCHIP
- WASHINGTON, June 21 /U.S. Newswire/ -- HHS Secretary Tommy G. Thompson today approved a plan by New York State to streamline the State Children's Health Insurance Program SCHIP to make it easier for children to remain enrolled. WASHINGTON, June 21 /U.S. Newswire/ -- HHS Secretary Tommy G. Thompson today approved...
- Research articles 2004-06-21
- HHS makes $643 million available for FY05 in unexpended SCHIP funds.(Health and Human Services Department)(State Children's Health Insurance Program)
- States will be able to divvy up $643 million in old, unspent funds to avoid funding shortfalls this year under the State Children's Health Insurance Program SCHIP, the Health and Human Services Department HHS announced this month. States will be able to divvy...
- Research articles 2005-01-31
- Sink This SCHIP: CCAGW Urges Congress to Oppose SCHIP Expansion
- WASHINGTON -- The Council for Citizens Against Government Waste CCAGW today released a copy of the letter it sent to House and Senate related to H.R. 976, popularly known as SCHIP Reauthorization:
- Research articles 2007-09-25
- Calif., Idaho SCHIP expansion plans get federal government approval.(State Children's Health Insurance Program)(Brief Article)
- More poor families in California and Idaho will gain eligibility for enrollment in the State Children's Health Insurance Program SCHIP, now that the federal government has approved expansion plans from both states. The U.S. Health and Human Services Department HHS granted permission to...
- Research articles 2004-06-21
- SCHIP Covers 4.6 Million Children In 2001; Increase Reflects Increased Flexibility, Expanded Outreach To Help Uninsured
- WASHINGTON, Feb. 6 /U.S. Newswire/ -- About 4.6 million children who otherwise would not have access to health care were covered under the State Children's Health Insurance Program SCHIP during fiscal year 2001 -- a 38 percent increase from the previous year, HHS Secretary Tommy G. Thompson announced today. "Working...
- Research articles 2002-02-06
- SCHIP Provided Health Coverage to 5.8 Million Children in 2003
- WASHIINGTON, Feb. 12 /U.S. Newswire/ -- About 5.8 million children who otherwise would not have health coverage were enrolled in the State Children's Health Insurance Program SCHIP at some point during fiscal year 2003 -- a 9 percent increase from the previous year, HHS Secretary Tommy G. Thompson announced today....
- Research articles 2004-02-12
- AHIP Praises Bipartisan Senate Vote on SCHIP
- To: POLITICAL EDITORSContact: Mohit Ghose of the America's Health Insurance Plans, +1- 202-778-8494, Cell +1-202-297-6396 WASHINGTON, Aug. 2 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Millions of children will receive health care coverage through the State Children's Health Insurance Program SCHIP under the bipartisan legislation passed by the U.S. Senate today. The legislation would raise...
- Research articles 2007-08-02
- New State-by-State Analysis Shows 6.6 Million Children Covered by SCHIP at Some Point Last Year
- To: POLITICAL EDITORSContact: Nick Ferreyros, +1-202-745-5102, or Patrick McCabe, +1- 202-745-5100, both for the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Future could be in jeopardy for 6.6 million children - and millions more who are eligible for SCHIP, but not enrolledEvents to support SCHIP to be held in states during congressional recessNew...
- Research articles 2007-08-09
- CCF Reviews Contents of SCHIP Reauthorization Bill Legislation Places SCHIP on Solid Path
- To: POLITICAL EDITORSContact: Jennifer Combs of Georgetown University Center for Children and Families, +1-202-687-0331, jvc9@georgetown.edu WASHINGTON, Sept. 28 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The compromise legislation on the reauthorization of the State Children's Health Insurance Program approved by Congress would set SCHIP on a solid path over the next 10 years, according to...
- Research articles 2007-09-28
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