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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.
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.
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.
September 1, 2003 | Program Result Report
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.
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 ...
January 31, 2006 | Program Result Report
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.
March 1, 2006 | Program Result Report
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.
June 4, 2006 | Program Result Report
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.
November 1, 2006 | Program Result Report
From 2002 to 2004, the San Bernardino County Human Services System sought to increase the number of individuals and families receiving Medicaid by 15 percent and State Children's Health Insurance Program benefits.
November 1, 2006 | Program Result Report
Although many people leaving welfare under the 1996 federal welfare reform legislation retained eligibility for such programs, studies suggested that from one-half to two-thirds were losing these benefits.