Medicaid Expansions

This report from the Urban Institute used ACS (American Community Survey) data to analyze Medicaid/CHIP eligibility and take-up from 2008 to 2009.

According to a findings brief by Changes in Health Care Financing & Organization (HCFO), in 2008, approximately 7.4 million children in the United States received health insurance coverage through the State Children's Health Insurance Program (SCHIP).

Supplemental payments are a critical source of revenue to hospitals, especially safety-net hospitals. Yet because they are often disconnected from the specific services provided to specific patients, and thereby delinked from the efficiency or quality of the care provided, supplemental payments may in fact run counter to broader value-based purchasing efforts.

According to a report by Milliman, about 2.3 million individuals who receive Social Security benefits will also be eligible to receive Medicaid beginning in 2014 because of an income exclusion for Social Security under the health reform law.

In this brief sponsored by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, the authors examine premium-contribution requirements for children's and family health insurance coverage through a combination of Children's Health Insurance Program (CHIP) and employer-sponsored insurance in Pennsylvania, Illinois, and Washington.

This SHARE note discusses the implications of the Affordable Care Act's (ACA) new Medicaid income definition, Modified Adjusted Gross Income (MAGI), or state Medicaid eligibility systems.

The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services has put out a Q&A document for state Medicaid directors that covers various topics on the maintenance-of-effort provisions in the ACA.

 

An issue brief from the Kaiser Family Foundation examines how states can employ "express lane" principles in designing systems that use existing data held by other government agencies to help identify individuals who may be eligible for Medicaid, CHIP or subsidies for other coverage and enroll them or renew their coverage, as appropriate, under the health reform law.

this new report from the Medicaid Institute explores the technical and policy decisions states can make when purchasing and managing prescription drugs in today’s Medicaid environment.

This report, commissioned by the United States District Court for the District of Columbia, details the opportunities available to the District of Columbia – and potentially other states as well - to use this emerging quality framework and HIT/HIE infrastructure to enhance the quality and oversight of Medicaid EPSDT benefits.