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Effective Outreach: Tools Of The Trade For Heading Back-To-School, Florida Covering Kids & Families
Effective Outreach: Tools Of The Trade For Heading Back-To-School, Florida Covering Kids & Families
Florida Covering Kids & Families
Effective marketing and education through outreach strategies are critical to guarantee uninsured but eligible children enroll and retain coverage in Children’s Health Insurance Programs, such as Florida KidCare. The implementation of effective outreach can eliminate enrollment barriers. The authors cite that the tools for innovative practices for effective outreach strategies include: personal contact and involvement with an outreach coalition.
A Tale Of Two Cities? The Heterogeneous Impact Of Medicaid Managed Care In Kentucky, James Marton, Aaron Yelowitz, Jeffery C. Talbert
A Tale Of Two Cities? The Heterogeneous Impact Of Medicaid Managed Care In Kentucky, James Marton, Aaron Yelowitz, Jeffery C. Talbert
University of Kentucky Center for Poverty Research Discussion Paper Series
Does managed care produce lower health care utilization and costs through better aligned financial incentives and alternative delivery methods (the “pure” HMO effect) or by attracting more healthy enrollees (enrollee selection)? The purpose of this paper is to shed new light on this fundamental question using a quasi-experimental approach that exploits the timing and county specific implementation of Medicaid managed care plans in two distinct sub-sets of Kentucky counties in the late 1990s. We find large differences in the relative success of each region in reducing utilization that are likely driven by important differences in plan design. Asthmatic children enrolled …
Community-Based Coalitions: Influencing Policy & Practice, Florida Covering Kids & Families
Community-Based Coalitions: Influencing Policy & Practice, Florida Covering Kids & Families
Florida Covering Kids & Families
Simple approaches to outreach can increase enrollment in CHIP. The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (2010) found community-based coalitions can be simple yet effective methods to communicate needed policy and practice changes to those “charged with implementing insurance coverage”. Community-based coalitions are able to bring to light enrollment and retention barriers increasing the awareness of stakeholders and hopefully, help to create effective solutions.