This technical assistance brief discusses strategies for accessing vital records for quality measurement and improvement efforts related to maternal and infant health care in Medicaid and the Children's Health Insurance Program (CHIP). The brief also gives guidance and describes resources...

Retention is key in achieving SCHIP’s mission to reduce the number of uninsured children. This paper synthesizes the available evidence on disenrollment rates and reasons for disenrollment to produce estimates of SCHIP retention rates. The paper also summarizes the evidence on state SCHIP...

This technical assistance brief discusses strategies for accessing vital records for quality measurement and improvement efforts related to maternal and infant health care in Medicaid and the Children's Health Insurance Program (CHIP). The brief also gives guidance and describes resources...

Although children in foster care may suffer physical, emotional, or developmental problems because of prior abuse or neglect, little is known about the adequacy of the health care services they receive. Notes that they have disproportionately high Medicaid expenditures and are more likely to...

There are many reasons to promote retention and continuous enrollment for low-income children in SCHIP and Medicaid: to prevent access to care problems and disruptions in preventive care, to lower rates of uninsurance, to lower administrative costs for states, and to maintain stable enrollment...

This brief presents an analysis of the Database of Publicly Available Medicaid and CHIP Performance Measure Reports. It provides background on the database; highlights the types of documents and reports available; and discusses which measure domains are typically represented, including examples of...

Finds that the state used an especially broad and creative strategy to increase children's enrollment in Medicaid, including a commitment by state leaders to increase enrollment; clear and measurable goals set at the state level, with discretion given to local program administrators to achieve...