Congress mandated in the Balanced Budget Refinement Act of 1999 (BBRA) that the Secretary of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services conduct an independent comprehensive study of the State Children’s Health Insurance Program (SCHIP). The evaluation was funded through the $10...

Across the country, children without health insurance are a cause for concern. This report examines the design and implementation of State Children's Health Insurance Programs, noting that they were succeeding in almost all areas examined. The study focused on 10 states with a large proportion...

This report to Congress, the first from Mathematica's SCHIP evaluation for ASPE, is based on information collected in 2001. It draws on case studies in six of the ten evaluation states: California, Colorado, Louisiana, Missouri, New York, and Texas. Although current state budget shortfalls...

This case study discusses trends in new Medicaid and SCHIP enrollment of children in California from 1999 through 2003. During an economic downturn, when California expanded eligibility and simplified enrollment, the number of children enrolled in programs should have grown, but didn’t....

This case study discusses trends in new Medicaid and SCHIP enrollment of children in New Jersey from 1999 through 2003. New Jersey’s ambitious effort to insure children eligible for Medicaid or NJ FamilyCare was slowed by administrative difficulties.