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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 ...
Improving Medicaid and SCHIP Through Simplification and Coordination
December 13, 2005 | Evaluation
Simplifying enrollment and renewal processes for Medicaid and SCHIP and improving coordination of existing health care coverage programs are two key strategies Covering Kids & Families (CKF) grantees use to increase the enrollment of uninsured but eligible children and adults in Medicaid and SCHIP programs.
Gradual Shift Seen in Public Funds from Nursing Homes to Community-Based Services
March 30, 2004 | Program Result
From 1997 to 1999, researchers at the Visiting Nurse Service of New York led by Christopher M. Murtaugh, Ph.D., examined current state efforts to reallocate long-term care resources and expand home and community-based services for older adults.
Improving Awareness of and Enrollment in New York's Post 9/11 Temporary Disaster Relief Medicaid Program
September 1, 2003 | Program Result
After the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks damaged the computer systems of New York City's Medicaid program, city and state officials established a temporary, simplified enrollment process for public health insurance, called Disaster Relief Medicaid.
First Ever Managed Care Payment Rate for People with Disabilities
April 1, 2000 | Program Result
The Chronic Illness and Disability Medicaid Working Group at Boston University School of Public Health developed and implemented pilot projects designed to help states develop cost-effective managed care models for chronically ill people with disabilities.
Children, Accountability Fall Through Tennessee Medicaid Managed Care Cracks
June 1, 2000 | Program Result
From 1995 to 1997, staff at the Citizen's TennCare Review Commission undertook a number of analyses to examine the effectiveness of the TennCare program, which in 1994 had replaced Tennessee's Medicaid program.
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 ...