Medicaid Expansions

This National Academy for State Health Policy (NASHP) brief presents four key considerations that NASHP and most Children's Health Insurance Program (CHIP) directors believe policymakers should take into account when making decisions that may affect children’s coverage.

This Kansas Health Institute issue brief examines a proposal by Kansas Governor Sam Brownback’s administration to change the structure and operations of the $2.8 billion Kansas Medicaid program.

This brief reviews current research on current Medicaid participation rates and participation rates after reform implementation.

This brief by CHCS, outlines Affordable Care Act (ACA) provisions that affect AI/AN populations and provides strategies to help states and other key stakeholders fully realize the potential of reform to improve the health and health care of these people.

This SHADAC presentation discusses the numbers and characteristics of those who will be newly eligible for Medicaid under the Affordable Care Act and how this varies across states. 

Rhode Island has released an RFP to procure one or more vendors to design, implement, and operate a technology platform to support both new and existing health insurance initiatives under the Affordable Care Act (ACA), support existing human services programs, provide hosting services for the state’s health benefits exchange and integrated eligibility system (HIX/IES), and potentially provide contracted operations of key business functions of the HIX/IES.

These are the fourth and fifth state-specific reports, in a series of ten, from the Urban Institute to track and monitor the implementation process and effects of the ACA. These reports look at the progress underway in Colorado and New York.

This State Data Spotlight, produced by the State Health Access Data Assistance Center (SHADAC), describes how Iowa collected necessary information via tax forms to determine which Iowa children are uninsured but meet the requirements to qualify for the state's CHIP program or Medicaid.

This brief draws from current state programs that have successfully dealt with coverage transitions between existing programs. The lessons learned from current state programs can help other states develop policies and procedures that foster seamless coordination of care during coverage transitions between Medicaid managed care organizations and qualified health plans in the exchanges.

This brief provides an overview of the final and interim final rules codifying Medicaid eligibility and enrollment provision of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA).