Download or read book Mental Health and Substance Abuse Services Under the State Children s Health Insurance Program written by Embry Howell and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A Summary of Planned Mental Health and Substance Abuse Services and Activities in the State Children s Health Insurance Program CHIP written by Cynthia Pernice and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Substance Abuse Treatment Coverage in State Children s Health Insurance Programs written by Shelly Gehshan and published by . This book was released on 2000-01-01 with total page 13 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Data Needs for the State Children s Health Insurance Program written by National Research Council and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 2002-06-26 with total page 72 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The State Children's Health Insurance Program (SCHIP) was established by Congress to provide health insurance to uninsured children whose family income was too high for Medicaid coverage but too low to allow the family to obtain private health insurance coverage. The enabling legislation for SCHIP, included in the Balanced Budget Act of 1997, made available to states (and the District of Columbia) almost $40 billion over a 10-year period for this program. Like Medicaid, SCHIP is a joint federal-state program, with funding from both sources, but it is implemented by the states. Thus, there are SCHIP programs in all of the states and the District of Columbia. The National Research Council, through the Committee on National Statistics, was asked to explore some of the ways in which data analysis could be used to promote achievement of the SCHIP goal of expanding health insurance coverage for uninsured children from low-income families. To inform its work, the panel for this project held a workshop to bring together state SCHIP officials and researchers to share findings and methods that would inform the design, implementation, and evaluation of SCHIP at the state and national levels. In keeping with this charge, this report is limited to discussions at the workshop. It does not attempt to provide a summary of all the state programs nor a comprehensive review of the literature. Data Needs for the State Children's Health Insurance Program concludes that data are insufficient in the individual states to provide a clear picture of the impact of SCHIP on the number of children who are eligible for the program, the rate at which eligible children are enrolled in the program, and the rate at which they are retained in the program once enrolled. This situation is due, in part, to the fact that sample sizes in national surveys are too small to provide detailed data for individual states. In addition, the great amount of movement of children among health insurance categories-Medicaid, SCHIP, private insurance, or no insurance at all-makes it difficult for states to count the number of children in specific categories at a particular point in time. The panel specifies a number of practices that could be implemented to improve the overall functioning of SCHIP and the ability of policy makers to evaluate the program. Foremost among these are: (1) developing more uniform ways of estimating eligibility and health insurance coverage among the states; (2) sharing among the states effective methods for outreach; (3) taking qualitative information into account, in addition to quantitative information, in assessing variation among states in enrollment and disenrollment; and (4) implementing longitudinal studies to track the movement of children among the various insurance statuses.
Download or read book Medicaid Eligibility Quality Control written by United States. Social and Rehabilitation Service and published by . This book was released on 1975 with total page 460 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Key Benefits Under Medicaid and the State Children s Health Insurance Program SCHIP for Children With Mental Health and Substance Abuse Problems written by and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: About 18% of all U.S. adolescents received mental health treatment in 2000. Almost $7 billion was spent for such services for teens in 1998. While many youth have used alcohol or other illicit drugs, less than 2% received treatment for substance use in 2000. In 1997, costs for such care for children under 18 totaled $604 million. In this report, the availability of selected mental health and substance abuse services under Medicaid and SCHIP for low and moderate income children is explored. Under SCHIP, states may provide coverage by expanding Medicaid or creating a separate SCHIP program or both. Data from two CRS-sponsored surveys, documenting general limits placed on such services as of June, 2000, are presented. For Medicaid, including Medicaid expansions under SCHIP, survey results were reported for all 50 states and the District of Columbia. For separate SCHIP programs, survey results were reported for all 41 programs operating in 33 states. Nearly all Medicaid and SCHIP programs covered inpatient and outpatient mental health services for children, and most also covered inpatient detoxification and outpatient substance abuse treatment. Such benefits were more frequently unlimited under Medicaid than under SCHIP. While the majority of Medicaid programs covered residential treatment centers, most SCHIP programs did not. In many cases, expressing benefit limits as a simple quantity (e.g., days of care, admissions per year, visits/hours per year) did not address the full scope of restrictions on coverage. Other means of limiting benefits were also reported (e.g., use of prior authorization, thresholds specific to condition/diagnosis, and treatment plan requirements). Under SCHIP, but not Medicaid, a single quantity limit was often applied to two or more related benefits combined rather than separately for each benefit category. Coverage policies and benefit limits for children under Medicaid are seldom absolute in part because of special provisions in the law requiring that children receive all medically necessary services authorized in federal statute. This guarantee does not exist in SCHIP. Instead, SCHIP children have access to similar types of benefit packages available in the private sector. Facing declining revenues and increased expenses, some states are implementing a number of Medicaid cost containment strategies focused on reductions in provider payments, and reductions in and/or elimination of optional services and populations, mostly affecting adults. Under SCHIP, some states are also capping enrollment and increasing beneficiary cost-sharing. While these proposed strategies appear to leave mental health and substance abuse benefits for children largely intact, they could effectively limit access to care. Finally, this report also describes mental health parity and its application to Medicaid and SCHIP under current federal law, and related, pending legislation in the 108th Congress.
Download or read book Adolescent Health Services written by Institute of Medicine and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 2008-12-03 with total page 366 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Adolescence is a time of major transition, however, health care services in the United States today are not designed to help young people develop healthy routines, behaviors, and relationships that they can carry into their adult lives. While most adolescents at this stage of life are thriving, many of them have difficulty gaining access to necessary services; other engage in risky behaviors that can jeopardize their health during these formative years and also contribute to poor health outcomes in adulthood. Missed opportunities for disease prevention and health promotion are two major problematic features of our nation's health services system for adolescents. Recognizing that health care providers play an important role in fostering healthy behaviors among adolescents, Adolescent Health Services examines the health status of adolescents and reviews the separate and uncoordinated programs and services delivered in multiple public and private health care settings. The book provides guidance to administrators in public and private health care agencies, health care workers, guidance counselors, parents, school administrators, and policy makers on investing in, strengthening, and improving an integrated health system for adolescents.
Download or read book Health Insurance for Children written by United States. General Accounting Office and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 62 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Key Benefits Under Medicaid and the State Children s Health Insurance Program SCHIP for Children with Mental Health and Substance Abuse Problems written by Elicia J. Herz and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 57 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book State Children s Health Insurance Program Program Structure Enrollment and Expenditure Experiences and Outreach Approaches for States That Cover Adults written by and published by DIANE Publishing. This book was released on 2007 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book America s Children written by Institute of Medicine and National Research Council and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 1998-10-27 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: America's Children is a comprehensive, easy-to-read analysis of the relationship between health insurance and access to care. The book addresses three broad questions: How is children's health care currently financed? Does insurance equal access to care? How should the nation address the health needs of this vulnerable population? America's Children explores the changing role of Medicaid under managed care; state-initiated and private sector children's insurance programs; specific effects of insurance status on the care children receive; and the impact of chronic medical conditions and special health care needs. It also examines the status of "safety net" health providers, including community health centers, children's hospitals, school-based health centers, and others and reviews the changing patterns of coverage and tax policy options to increase coverage of private-sector, employer-based health insurance. In response to growing public concerns about uninsured children, last year Congress voted to provide $24 billion over five years for new state insurance initiatives. This volume will serve as a primer for concerned federal policymakers and regulators, state agency officials, health plan decisionmakers, health care providers, children's health advocates, and researchers.
Download or read book State Children s Health Insurance Program written by and published by DIANE Publishing. This book was released on with total page 74 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) offers information on the State Children's Health Insurance Program (SCHIP), whose central objective is to improve children's health status and reduce health disparities. AAP highlights related fact sheets, what is covered in SCHIP, outreach, and SCHIP eligibility.
Download or read book The State Children s Health Insurance Program written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Commerce. Subcommittee on Health and the Environment and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Health Insurance is a Family Matter written by Institute of Medicine and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 2002-09-18 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Health Insurance is a Family Matter is the third of a series of six reports on the problems of uninsurance in the United Sates and addresses the impact on the family of not having health insurance. The book demonstrates that having one or more uninsured members in a family can have adverse consequences for everyone in the household and that the financial, physical, and emotional well-being of all members of a family may be adversely affected if any family member lacks coverage. It concludes with the finding that uninsured children have worse access to and use fewer health care services than children with insurance, including important preventive services that can have beneficial long-term effects.
Download or read book Health Insurance for Children written by William Scanlon and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 16 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Impact of the State Children s Health Insurance Program on Children s Access to Care and Use of Health Care Services written by Karen G. Duderstadt and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: These study results provide further evidence that expansions of public health insurance have improved the health and health outcomes of America's children, and that the expansions represent an important public health accomplishment for children living in low-income families.
Download or read book Adolescents in Public Health Insurance Programs written by Abigail English and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
