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Using HMOs to Serve the Medicaid Population
April 1, 2010 | Journal Article
This article examines the penetration and impact of Medicaid HMOs in markets across the United States. The percentage of Medicaid patients enrolled in an HMO has increased enormously in the past 20 years, but little is known about whether this change has resulted in lower costs or higher quality of care.
A Continuing Program for Increasing Insurance Coverage Among Low-Income Families
June 1, 2010 | Evaluation
The evaluation of Covering Kids & Families� (CKF) found that broad-based cooperation on policy and procedural change?among advocacy groups, providers, state Medicaid and CHIP officials and other stakeholders? can be achieved and that such cooperation can be fundamental to increasing insurance coverage among children.
How Does Cash and Counseling Affect Costs?
February 1, 2007 | Journal Article
This research examines Cash and Counseling's effects on the costs and uses of Medicaid's personal care services or home and community-based waiver services effects on other Medicaid costs and effects on total Medicaid costs.
Keeping Kids Covered: Number of Children with Health Coverage Increases During Economic Downturn
August 29, 2012 | Report
This report analyzes recent trends in health insurance coverage for children at the state level between 2008 and 2010. The percentage of children with public coverage through Medicaid or the Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP) increased subst ...
The Medicaid Managed Care Program
January 1, 2006 | Book
By the 1990s most Medicaid programs used managed care, and by 2003 some 60 percent of Medicaid beneficiaries were in managed care programs, largely HMOs. This chapter describes the evolution of a Robert Wood Johnson Foundation initiative, the Medica ...
Researchers Propose an Option to Expand Medicaid Under Welfare Reform
January 31, 2006 | Program Result
Researchers at the American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research studied the relationship between welfare and Medicaid coverage. Working under a subcontract, staff at Mathematica Policy Research conducted a literature review.
Medicaid Experts Recommend Ways to Make the Program More Accessible, Flexible
March 1, 2006 | Program Result
The National Academy for State Health Policy convened a workgroup of 25 experts to examined the Medicaid program and make recommendations to improve its efficiency and effectiveness.
Massachusetts Program to Promote Long-Term Care Insurance for the Elderly Sets Contribution Levels for Elders Based on Income and Assets
May 1, 2006 | Program Result
The Massachusetts Executive Office of Elder Affairs created a conceptual model for a public-private partnership for long-term care.
Hiring Freeze and Lack of Medicaid Waiver Snarls N.J. Program to Promote Long-Term Care Insurance for the Elderly
May 1, 2006 | Program Result
The New Jersey Department of Human Services created a design for a public-private partnership in which policyholders would be covered under Medicaid when private insurance expired, with asset protection equal to the amount of qualified insurance.
The Story of Tyjhe Hargrove
June 4, 2006 | Program Result
Tyjhe Hargrove, who was 5 years old when his mother joined Affinity Health Plan, has suffered from asthma since he was a baby. He has trouble breathing when the weather is especially cold or especially hot or the air is full of pollen.