Medicaid Expansions

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Increased Participation in Medicaid and CHIP in 2009

Aug 2011

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

 

Consequences of SCHIP Expansions for Household Well-Being

Aug 2011

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).

 

Medicaid Supplemental Payments: Where Do They Fit in Payment Reform?

Aug 2011

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.

 

Milliman-Social Security and Modified Adjustment Gross Income: Estimated Impact to Medicaid Enrollment Under ACA

Aug 2011

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.

 

Relative Affordability of Health Insurance Premiums under CHIP Expansion Programs and the ACA

Aug 2011

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.

 

SHADAC-Modified Adjusted Gross Income and Medicaid Eligibility Systems

Aug 2011

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.

 

CMS-Guidance on the MOE Requirements in the ACA

Aug 2011

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.

 

 

KFF-"Express Lane" Principles to Simplify and Expand Medicaid Enrollment in 2014

Jul 2011

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.

 

UHF-Medicaid Prescription Drugs: Purchasing and Management

Jul 2011

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.

 

NASHP-Health IT, Quality Reporting and Medicaid Well Child Benefits: An Assessment of Progress and Potential in D.C.

Jul 2011

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.

 
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