Improving Medicaid and SCHIP Through Simplification and Coordination

The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation challenged CKF grantees to use three strategies— outreach, simplification, and coordination—to increase the enrollment of uninsured but eligible children and families in Medicaid and SCHIP programs. This highlight memo examines grantees’ and state officials’ opinions on their success in improving Medicaid and SCHIP using the simplification and coordination strategies.