Increasing Children's Coverage and Access: A Decade of SCHIP Lessons

Increasing Children's Coverage and Access: A Decade of SCHIP Lessons

Trends in Insurance Coverage, Issue Brief #4
Published: Sep 30, 2007
Publisher: Cambridge, MA: Mathematica Policy Research
Expanding health coverage for children is at the center of health policy debates as reauthorization of the 10-year-old State Children’s Health Insurance Program (SCHIP) continues. This brief is based on Mathematica’s national evaluation of SCHIP conducted for the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS). The analysis highlights states’ progress in conducting outreach, averting substitution, improving access, and reducing the number of uninsured low-income children.

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