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Six consumer advocacy groups have identified several state plans under the State Children's Insurance Program (CHIP) that provide good solutions to cost-sharing, crowd-out and other thorny implementation problems states face.
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The HealthCare Foundation, created by the conversion of Blue Cross of California from a non-profit health plan to a for-profit corporation, announced that it authorized $35 million in programs and grants in its first year as a new philanthropy.
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In an effort to understand how the sale of a major non-profit hospital to a for-profit health system impacts the community it serves before the sale takes place, the California attorney general's office turned to a prominent outside consulting firm for help.
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Clip File April 1998
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Dental care, once the ignored stepchild of publicly-funded health insurance programs, has become a fundamental element of many plans submitted by states seeking to take advantage of new federal Title 21 funding for Child Health Insurance Programs.
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In a flurry of activity, the Health Care Financing Administration has approved five state children's insurance programs since late March.
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Rejecting a proposal to create a high-risk pool as a cure for an ailing insurance market, Kentucky lawmakers recently voted to try another strategy to cover individuals who may be costly to insure.
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Welfare reform has had a less disruptive effect on Medicaid coverage than many critics had feared, according to a new report by the General Accounting Office.
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Washington state officials have decided they can't rely only on the honor system to keep track of residents' eligibility for insurance subsidies under the Basic Health Plan (BHP) from year to year.
