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Children’s Health Coverage

This briefing discusses the importance of Medicaid and SCHIP coverage for children, challenges to enrollment and retention, innovative solutions, and policy implications. It explores the impact on children's health, school attendance, and performance, as well as the economic implications. Practical impacts of enrollment and retention, access and quality solutions, and the policy implications of SCHIP reauthorization and economic recovery are also discussed. Contact Terri Shaw for more information.

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Children’s Health Coverage

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  1. February 2, 2009 Children’s Health Coverage Terri Shaw Deputy Director The Children’s Partnership Briefing Co-Sponsored by Alliance for Health Reform & Kaiser Commission on Medicaid and the Uninsured

  2. Overview www.childrenspartnership.org • Importance of Medicaid and SCHIP • Challenges to Enrollment and Retention • Innovative Solutions • Enrollment and Retention • Access and Quality • Policy Implications • SCHIP Reauthorization • Economic Recovery

  3. Importance of Medicaid & SCHIP Coverage for 35 million children; millions more eligible Impacts for children Health access, quality, outcomes School attendance and performance Impacts for states Source of federal funding Direct and indirect economic impacts www.childrenspartnership.org

  4. Enrollment and Retention: Policy Goals www.childrenspartnership.org Carefully target assistance Avoid crowd-out Ensure program integrity Contain costs

  5. Enrollment and Retention: Practical Impacts Complex rules Gaps in coverage Burdensome requirements for families Administrative inefficiencies Bias against enrollment www.childrenspartnership.org

  6. Enrollment and Retention: Innovative Solutions Express Lane Eligibility Administrative simplifications Technology tools www.childrenspartnership.org

  7. Access and Quality: Innovative Solutions Better use of information Screening, assessment, and referral Coordination Program evaluation and improvement Increasing connections and tools for families Telehealth www.childrenspartnership.org

  8. Policy Implications: SCHIP Reauthorization Coverage and financing New options for enrollment and retention Quality measures Health information technology www.childrenspartnership.org

  9. Policy Implications: Economic Recovery Medicaid funding Health information technology www.childrenspartnership.org

  10. Contact Terri Shaw (510) 967-3165 tshaw@childrenspartnership.org www.childrenspartnership.org

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