CHIP TIPS: Children’s Oral Health Benefits March 8, 2010 Issue Brief This brief examines a new requirement under the Children’s Health Insurance Program Reauthorization Act of 2009 that state CHIP programs cover comprehensive dental benefits. The reauthorization law also allows states with separate CHIP programs to offer a dental-only plan for children who have other health insurance but lack adequate dental…
Pulling it Together: Teaching An Old Dog New Tricks July 7, 2009 Perspective Way back in the eighties when I was Human Services Commissioner in New Jersey, I established something called the Garden State Health Plan (GSHP). It was the first — and I think the only — federally qualified state-run HMO for Medicaid beneficiaries. One goal of the GSHP was to reallocate…
CHIP TIPS: CHIP Financing Structure May 31, 2009 Issue Brief This brief, the fourth in a series, examines important changes to CHIP’s financing structure under the Children’s Health Insurance Program Reauthorization Act of 2009. The law includes a number of important programmatic and financing changes that affect both Medicaid and CHIP. Among the most important changes include significant new funding…
Examing the Role of Private Long-Term Care Insurance in the Financing of Long-Term Care May 30, 2009 Issue Brief As the long-standing gap between Americans’ need for long-term care services and the public and private funding available to pay for them grows ever wider, this policy brief from the Kaiser Commission on Medicaid and the Uninsured examines the fundamentals of private long-term care insurance. The brief describes the results…
New Kaiser Resources Examine Medicaid as a Platform for Health Reform April 30, 2009 Issue Brief These related research papers examine the policy opportunities for expanding Medicaid to cover more low-income and high-need people in ways that would enable the program to serve as a platform for larger national health reform efforts. As congressional leaders work on proposals for universal coverage, some policymakers have suggested that…
Child Health Facts: National and State Profiles of Coverage December 30, 1997 Report Child Health Facts: National and State Profiles of Coverage Nearly 10 million children in the United States lack health insurance coverage and over two-thirds of them or low-income. This databook provides baseline data on how many children are uninsured today and on the extent of Medicaid coverage. It provides astarting…
Choices Under the New State Child Health Insurance Program: What Factors Shape Cost and Coverage? – Policy Brief December 30, 1997 Issue Brief Choices Under The New State Child Health Insurance Program: What Factors Shape Cost And Coverage? January 1998 The State Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP), enacted as part of the Balanced Budget Act of 1997, provides over $20 billion in federal funds over five years to cover low-income uninsured children. This…
An Implementation Perspective on Part D, the Medicare Prescription Drug Program November 30, 2005 Report This focus group of 12 state Medicaid officials conducted in November 2005 explores the current status and likely results of the Part D dual eligible transition efforts as well as other Part D-related issues of particular importance to states. It includes discussion of the transition of dual eligibles from Medicaid…
New Reports Explain Medicaid’s Role in Long-Term Care and Track Trends October 31, 2005 Issue Brief With short and long-term policy changes to the Medicaid program being discussed, its role in providing long-term care is receiving closer examination. Medicaid is the single largest source of financing for long-term care, accounting for nearly half of all the nation’s spending for long-term care services, and demographic trends are…
Long-Term Care: Understanding Medicaid’s Role for the Elderly and Disabled October 31, 2005 Issue Brief Long-Term Care: Understanding Medicaid’s Role for the Elderly and DisabledThis updated report provides a review of how Medicaid works for people with long-term care needs and describes the fiscal challenges that states currently face and that Medicaid may face in the future as the population ages.Report (.pdf)Executive Summary (.pdf)