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December 2, 2008

State Fiscal Conditions and Medicaid (Kaiser Commission on Medicaid and the Uninsured)

State Innovations: Strategies to Expand Coverage and Care (Health and Disability Working Group)

Can Incentives for Healthy Behavior Improve Health and Hold Down Medicaid Costs? (Center on Budget and Policy Priorities)

Medicaid: Critical Health Services for Children and Adults with Disabilities (The ARC, AAIDD, AUCD, UCP, and NACDD)

The Importance of Medicaid to People with Disabilities: State-by-State Fact Sheets (United Cerebral Palsy)

Administration Moves to Withdraw Key Health Services from Children and Adults with Mental Illness and Other Disabilities (Center on Budget and Policy Priorities)

The Affordable Choices Initiative: An Overview (The Kaiser Family Foundation)

Medicaid's Role for Women (Kaiser Family Foundation)

Improving Latina Health through Medicaid Advocacy: A Toolkit (National Women's Law Center)

Medicaid and SCHIP Reimbursement Models for Language Services: 2007 Update (National Health Law Program)

Medicaid and Long-Term Care 2006 (Georgetown University Long-Term Care Financing Project)

Medicare and Long-Term Care 2007 (Georgetown University Long-Term Care Financing Project)

The Medicaid Citizenship Documentation Requirement One Year Later (Families USA)

States Reported That Citizenship Documentation Requirement Resulted in Enrollment Declines for Eligible Citizens and Posed Administrative Burdens (GAO)

Best Practices: How States Can Reduce the Burden of the Citizenship Documentation Requirement (Families USA)

Health Opportunity Accounts: What Are They, and Why Should State Advocates Care? (Families USA)

Frequently Asked Questions about the Family Opportunity Act's Medicaid Buy-in Option (Health and Disability Working Group)

Florida: Waving Cautionary Flags: Initial Reactions from Doctors and Patients to Florida's Medicaid Changes (Georgetown University Health Policy Institute)

Idaho Medicaid under the DRA: Changing Benefit Packages for Participants (Families USA)

Indiana: The Healthy Indiana Plan (or Indiana Check-up Plan) (Families USA)

Kentucky Medicaid Reform: Using the DRA to Implement Changes (Families USA)

Radical New Changes in Medicaid for West Virginia (Families USA)

Health Coverage for Children: The Role of Medicaid and SCHIP (Kaiser Commission on Medicaid and the Uninsured)

Improving Children's Health: A Chartbook about the Roles of Medicaid and SCHIP (Center on Budget and Policy Priorities)

What Happened to the Insurance Coverage of Children and Adults in 2006? (Kaiser Commission on Medicaid and the Uninsured)

Children's Health Coverage: States Moving Forward (Georgetown University Health Policy Institute Center for Children and Families)

CRS Report for Congress FY2008 SCHIP Allotments (Congressional Research Service) (No link available)

Medicaid and SCHIP Participation Rates: Implications for New CMS Directive (The Urban Institute)

"Crowd-Out" Is Not the Same as Voluntarily Dropping Private Health Insurance for Public Program Coverage (Center on Budget and Policy Priorities)

Collateral Damage: Children Can Lose Coverage When Their Parents Lose Health Insurance (Center on Budget and Policy Priorities)

Family Coverage under SCHIP Waivers (Kaiser Commission on Medicaid and the Uninsured)

The Great Divide: When Kids Get Sick, Insurance Matters (Families USA)

Dental Coverage and Care for Low-Income Children: The Role of Medicaid and SCHIP (Kaiser Commission on Medicaid and the Uninsured)

At-a-Glance Medicaid & SCHIP Dental Programs (Children's Dental Health Project)

SCHIP and Children's Health Coverage: Leveling the Playing Field for Minority Children (Families USA)

Why Are Latinos the Most Uninsured Racial/Ethnic Group of U.S. Children? (The Commonwealth Fund)

Legal Immigrant Children's Health Improvement Act of 2007 (ICHIA) (National Council of La Raza)

Public Perceptions of the State Children's Health Insurance Program (Public Opinion Strategies and Robert Wood Johnson Foundation)

Enrolling Uninsured Low-Income Children in Medicaid and SCHIP (Kaiser Commission on Medicaid and the Uninsured)

Eligible but Not Enrolled: How SCHIP Reauthorization Can Help (The Urban Institute)