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Teaching Medicaid: A Tool For Health Law Teachers (2004 Update), Sara J. Rosenbaum, David Rousseau Jun 2004

Teaching Medicaid: A Tool For Health Law Teachers (2004 Update), Sara J. Rosenbaum, David Rousseau

Health Policy and Management Faculty Posters and Presentations

A teaching guide examining: (1) Medicaid's role as a health insurer: major themes; (2) Eligibility and services; (3) Where do Medicaid expenditures go and how; (4) Important are they to the health care system?; (5) Medicaid as health care payer and its role in supporting the health care safety net; (6) Medicaid's role in state financing; (7) Medicaid's role as a legal entitlement; (8) Does Medicaid need reform and if so, what should reform accomplish?


Public Health Insurance Design For Children: The Evolution From Medicaid To Schip, Sara J. Rosenbaum, Anne R. Markus, Colleen Sonosky Jan 2004

Public Health Insurance Design For Children: The Evolution From Medicaid To Schip, Sara J. Rosenbaum, Anne R. Markus, Colleen Sonosky

Health Policy and Management Faculty Publications

In 2005 Medicaid will turn 40, a momentous event in the life of the largest and most complex of all means-tested public entitlement programs. Since 1997, Medicaid has co-existed with the State Children’s Health Insurance Program (SCHIP), a small program which covers a fraction of the number of Medicaid enrolled children but whose legislative structure looms large against its much beleaguered companion. To the unpracticed eye, SCHIP and Medicaid appear to be quite similar in design; in reality however, their differences could not be more profound, and it is in these differences that clear directions for Medicaid’s possible future become …


Schip-Enrolled Children With Special Health Care Needs: An Assessment Of Coordination Efforts Between State Schip And Title V Programs, Anne R. Markus, Sara J. Rosenbaum, Soeurette Cyprien Jan 2004

Schip-Enrolled Children With Special Health Care Needs: An Assessment Of Coordination Efforts Between State Schip And Title V Programs, Anne R. Markus, Sara J. Rosenbaum, Soeurette Cyprien

Health Policy and Management Faculty Publications

This study explores how the State Children's Health Insurance Program serves children with special needs and assesses the role of the Title V Maternal and Child Health Services Block Grant program in filling in gaps in coverage. It also discusses the implications of state choices on publicly-funded health coverage for pediatric health care.