The State Children’s Health Insurance Program (SCHIP) was created by Congress in 1997 to provide coverage to children whose family income was too high to qualify for their state’s Medicaid program. In ...

Nina Owcharenko Schaefer is well known as a champion of patient choice and robust competition in America’s health insurance markets. President George W. Bush's fiscal year (FY) 2009 budget proposal ...

This paper examines successes and shortcomings of the State Children's Health Insurance Program (SCHIP). SCHIP is a source of coverage for millions of children, improving their access to health care ...

Nina Owcharenko Schaefer is well known as a champion of patient choice and robust competition in America’s health insurance markets. President Bush's fiscal year 2008 budget for Medicaid and the State ...

Improving the Patient Financial Experience Throughout the Patient Journey While many healthcare providers believe that improving the patient financial experience is a critical step for their ...

The Minnesota Department of Health and Human Services is transferring coverage responsibility for some Minnesota parents from the State Children’s Health Insurance Program to Medicaid, Gov. Tim ...

With as many programs as there are in the United States to help individuals obtain health insurance, it is surprising that there is still a large group of people who lack coverage. Over the last two ...

The nation’s Medicaid directors yesterday told the Bush administration that its new restrictions on the federally funded State Children’s Health Insurance Program will limit the number of children ...

Anna Sommers ([email protected]) is a research associate at the Health Policy Center, Urban Institute, in Washington, D.C. Lisa Dubay is an associate professor in the Department of Health Policy and ...

There are 8.6 million uninsured children in the United States, and that number is likely to grow during the nation's economic downturn, according to a new report by Families USA. Prodded by the nation ...

On the eve of the possible passage of a health care bill, Arizona has provided a glimpse of our possible future by shutting down its SCHIP program and booting a bunch of people out of Medicaid: The ...

One of the hallmarks of SCHIP (the State Children’s Health Insurance Program) has been state flexibility and innovation. Many advocates for children did not warmly embrace the original legislation ...