Welcome to the newly redesigned St@teside!
St@teside is the monthly newsletter of the
Robert Wood Johnson
Foundation’s State Coverage Initiatives program, which works
with states to plan, execute, and maintain health insurance
expansions, as well as to improve the availability and
affordability of health care coverage.
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Registration Now Open for SCI's
Summer Workshop for State Officials
Registration is now open for the Robert Wood Johnson
Foundation’s State Coverage Initiatives (SCI) program’s 2008
Summer Workshop for State Officials.
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Update on Implementation of Coverage
Expansions
Both Vermont and
Oklahoma have reported recent success
in enrolling new individuals in their coverage expansion
programs.
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CMS Testifies At Least Nine States
Will Meet Revised SCHIP Eligibility Guidelines
Dennis Smith, director of the Centers for Medicare and
Medicaid Services (CMS) Center for Medicaid and State
Operations, testifies in response to recent criticism of a CMS
directive that limits the expansion of the State Children’s
Health Insurance Program (SCHIP).
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New Report on Future SCHIP
Funding
A new report from Georgetown University’s Institute for
Health Policy Center for Children and Families provides
details on the financing provisions of the SCHIP
extension.
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CHAT - A Structured Method to Think
about Benefit Design
In an effort to inform the policymaking process and help
stakeholders consider the priorities and trade-offs inherent
in benefit design, a computer simulation game called CHAT
(Choosing Healthplans
All Together) was
developed.
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States Chosen to Participate in
Health Care Quality Improvement Institute
AcademyHealth and The Commonwealth Fund have announced that
nine states have been selected to participate in the State
Quality Improvement Institute.
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Registration Now Open: State Health
Research and Policy Interest Group Meeting
The State Health Research and Policy Interest Group Meeting
will be held Saturday, June 7, 2008.
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State Health Initiatives Featured at
AcademyHealth's 25th Annual Research Meeting
The 2008 Annual Research Meeting agenda features
sessions on state health initiatives.
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2008 Special Topic Solicitation in
Public Health Research
The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation has issued a Changes in
Health Care Financing and Organization (HCFO) special topic
solicitation on Public Health Systems and Services Research
(PHSSR).
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Reports of Interest
Reports of interest from Alliance for Health Reform, The
Commonwealth Fund, the National Academy for State Health
Policy, The Urban Institute, and others.
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