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... Subsequent difficulties in estimating the size of the SCHIP eligible population, in bringing data to bear on the enrollment process, and in assessing disenrollment from the program led the Office of the Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation, of the Department of Health and Human Services, to contract with the Committee on National Statistics of the National Research Council to organize and hold a workshop to explore some of the ways in which data analysis could be used to promote achievement of the SCHIP goals of expanding health insurance coverage for uninsured children from low-income families. The charge to the workshop was 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.
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From page 4...
... The legislation requires that the states maintain the Medicaid eligibility they had in place on lune 1, 1997; thus SCHIP could only be used to expand eligibility for health insurance to those who would not have been eligible under the preexisting Medicaid program. On one hand, if a state chose to implement a Medicaid expansion, it was required to offer those who would be newly covered the same Medicaid benefits package that was already in place.
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From page 5...
... The SCHIP program covered between 2 and 3 million previously uninsured children each year during itS first three years; even so, there were an estimated 1 1 to 12 million uninsured low-income children at the end of that time, an unknown number of whom were eligible for SCHIP. As states increased the numbers of children enrolled in SCHIP, many also documented low retention rates in the program.
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... Following the meeting, the panel met to summarize the workshop discussions and to draw conclusions about ways to enhance data collection and analysis in order to strengthen and target enrollment and retention efforts and to support evaluation of the SCHIP program. This report contains the panel's summaries of the workshop discussions around three issues: determining the size of the eligible population (Chapter 2)
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