May 6, 2013
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The Covering Kids & Families program was designed to find, enroll and retain eligible children and adults in federal and state health care coverage programs. Statewide and local coalitions in all 50 states and the District of Columbia participated.
March 2, 2010
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Indiana Covering Kids & Families set as one of its early goals to stimulate conversation and collaboration between two agencies: one administering the school lunch program and the other eligibility for CHIP and other public health insurance.
October 28, 2002
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The New Hampshire Healthy Kids Corporation worked with the New Hampshire Department of Health and Human Services to implement the state's State Children's Health Insurance Program (CHIP).
October 28, 2002
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From 1997 to 2000, the Texas Healthy Kids Corporation worked to bolster the operation of its children's health insurance program, Texas Healthy Kids.
December 1, 2000
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Program Result
The 14-member Committee on Children, Health Insurance, and Access to Care - appointed by the Institute of Medicine (IOM) - examined the relationship between health insurance coverage and children's access to health care.
July 11, 2008
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From 1997 to 2000, researchers affiliated with the Maternal & Child Health Policy Research Center studied the role of insurance in determining children's access to primary care.
November 1, 2007
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Assessing the New Federalism is an Urban Institute project that tracks the impact of state and federal policy changes on the health and social welfare of families and children, and the structure of health and social welfare programs.
January 26, 2011
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The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF) Emergency Department Consistent Care Program was established under the Foundation's Access Initiative, which awarded grants to 18 sites participating in the Covering Kids & Families national program.
March 2, 2010
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One of the Covering Kids & Families strategies was to help grantees improve and simplify the administrative processes for determining eligibility, enrolling eligible children and families in Medicaid or CHIP and retaining them in coverage.
March 2, 2010
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In 2003, some 374,000 Florida children were potentially eligible for KidCare, the state's Children’s Health Insurance Program, but were not enrolled. The Covering Kids & Families statewide coalition faced an array of obstacles to closing the gap.
