Income Eligibility Thresholds, Premium Contributions, and Children's Coverage Outcomes
April 1, 2013 | Journal Article
A CHIP expansion simulation finds sensitivity to higher contributions for higher income families.
Children's Health Insurance Program (CHIP)
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Reaching Uninsured Children
August 1, 2010 | Issue Brief
Brief analyzes effect of tax-based outreach in Iowa on children's health insurance enrollment.
CHIP Expansions to Higher-Income Children in Three States
September 1, 2010 | Issue Brief
Report analyzes how CHIP expansions to include children in higher-income families affected rates of uninsurance among children in Illinois, Pennsylvania and Washington.
What Was the Impact of States Expanding Eligibility to CHIP?
February 16, 2012 | Program Result
Illinois, Pennsylvania, and Washington were among the first to offer CHIP to children in families earning more than 200 percent of the federal poverty line. Researchers at UCLA and the RAND Corp. evaluated the impact of this effort.
Setting Income Thresholds in Medicaid/SCHIP
January 1, 2009 | Issue Brief
This Urban Institute analysis compares current costs of living and costs of employer-sponsored insurance with figures from a decade ago.
Program Design Snapshot
September 1, 2008 | Issue Brief
This article examines the benefits and issues surrounding continuous eligibility that allows children, ages 0-18, to maintain Medicaid or State Children's Health Insurance Program (SCHIP) coverage for up to one full year, even if families experience a change in income or family status.
Introduction to the State Children's Health Insurance Program
March 1, 2007 | Issue Brief
This brief provides an overview of SCHIP, including enrollment, program benefits, financing, and the future of the program.
CKF Coalitions Propel Policy and Procedural Changes
November 1, 2007 | Issue Brief
This brief examines the impact of Covering Kids & Families (CKF). The authors summarize the ways that CKF coalitions were built, the changes they supported, and the sustainability of those changes after the grant period.
SCHIP Children
January 1, 2009 | Report
This report finds that once children enrolled in SCHIP leave public insurance, they are far more likely to become uninsured, and remain uninsured for some time, than they are to obtain private coverage.
Covering Kids & Families
January 26, 2011 | Program Result
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.