Access to Health Care in SCHIP: Access to care has improved for children enrolled in SCHIP, although some gaps remain, and access varies among states.




Outreach, Enrollment, and Retention in SCHIP: Retention in SCHIP exceeds 75 percent in most states, similar to the experience in the individual market and traditional Medicaid. States embraced the flexibility that SCHIP offered, and enrollment grew rapidly in the early years.

Lessons from the Field: States tailored their SCHIP programs to their particular context, resources, and needs. The flexibility allowed under SCHIP legislation let states design and modify their programs, building on their own lessons learned as well as on the experiences of other states.

The report also made important recommendations that will be useful to policymakers as SCHIP reauthorization legislation is debated. These recommendations were derived from the evaluation of the program. They include the need to maintain SCHIP as a non-entitlement program and to preserve the option for states to offer flexible benefit packages rather than the rigid benefit design of the traditional Medicaid program.

The report is available at: http://www.cms.hhs.gov/Reports/Downloads/Rosenbach9-19-07.pdf



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