Outreach Strategies for Medicaid and SCHIP: An Overview of Effective Strategies and Activities


 

Publication Date: April 2006

Publisher: Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation

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Research Area: Health

Type: Report

Coverage: United States

Abstract:

This paper highlights key components of effective outreach strategies to enroll children in Medicaid and SCHIP and also to get them access to care once enrolled. In addition, the paper examines how these strategies have been implemented in states and the challenges of continuing to push for enrollment as states face continued fiscal pressures and barriers to participation are resurrected.