Many are concerned that growth of state Medicaid and SCHIP spending, along with limited political clout among beneficiaries, make these programs extremely vulnerable in periods of serious state budget constraints. But observations based on Community Tracking Study site visits show that states...

Presents information, collected by telephone between December 2000 and July 2001, on SCHIP and Medicaid eligibility and enrollment data systems in 23 states. State profiles provide useful background information for researchers who would like to use the data to study the SCHIP and Medicaid...

Expanding health coverage for children is at the center of policy debates as reauthorization of the 10-year-old State Children’s Health Insurance Program (SCHIP) continues. This report presents findings from Mathematica’s comprehensive seven-year evaluation of SCHIP for the Centers for...

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...

When SCHIP was enacted in 1997, policymakers sought to safeguard against the substitution of SCHIP for other insurance coverage. This report synthesizes and assesses evidence from published and unpublished literature and state SCHIP annual reports on the magnitude of substitution in SCHIP....