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Data Needs for the STATE CHILDREN’S HEALTH INSURANCE PROGRAM

Panel for the Workshop on the State Children’s Health Insurance Program

Arleen Leibowitz and Earl S. Pollack, Editors

Committee on National Statistics

Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education

National Research Council

NATIONAL ACADEMY PRESS
Washington, DC

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NOTICE: The project that is the subject of this report was approved by the Governing Board of the National Research Council, whose members are drawn from the councils of the National Academy of Sciences, the National Academy of Engineering, and the Institute of Medicine. The members of the committee responsible for the report were chosen for their special competences and with regard for appropriate balance.

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PANEL FOR THE WORKSHOP ON THE STATE CHILDREN’S HEALTH INSURANCE PROGRAM

ARLEEN LEIBOWITZ (Chair),

School of Public Policy and Social Research, University of California, Los Angeles

JOSEPH G. ALTONJI,

Department of Economics, Northwestern University

ROBERT M. GROVES,

Survey Research Center, University of Michigan

PAUL NEWACHECK,

Institute for Health Policy Studies, University of California, San Francisco

JOHN E. ROLPH,

Marshall School of Business, University of Southern California

EARL S. POLLACK, Study Director

JAMIE L. CASEY, Research Assistant

DANELLE J. DESSAINT, Senior Project Assistant

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COMMITTEE ON NATIONAL STATISTICS 2001-2002

JOHN E. ROLPH (Chair),

Marshall School of Business, University of Southern California

JOSEPH G. ALTONJI,

Department of Economics, Northwestern University

ROBERT BELL,

AT&T Research Laboratories, Florham Park, NJ

LAWRENCE D. BROWN,

The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania

ROBERT M. GROVES,

Survey Research Center, University of Michigan

HERMANN HABERMANN,

Statistics Division, United Nations, New York

JOEL HOROWITZ,

Department of Economics, The University of Iowa

WILLIAM KALSBEEK,

Department of Biostatistics, University of North Carolina

ARLEEN LEIBOWITZ,

School of Public Policy and Social Research, University of California, Los Angeles

RODERICK J.A. LITTLE,

School of Public Health, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor

THOMAS A. LOUIS,

RAND, Arlington, Virginia

DARYL PREGIBON,

AT&T Laboratories-Research, Florham Park, New Jersey

NORA CATE SCHAEFFER,

Department of Sociology, University of Wisconsin, Madison

MATTHEW D. SHAPIRO,

Department of Economics, Survey Research Center, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor

ANDREW A. WHITE, Director

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Acknowledgments

The Panel for the Workshop on the State Children’s Health Insurance Program wishes to thank the many people who contributed to the development of the workshop and to the preparation of this report.

The workshop was sponsored by the Office of the Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation (ASPE) in the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. Caroline Taplin, of that agency, served as project officer for the workshop. She and Julia Paradise of ASPE were very helpful during the organization and conduct of the workshop and in responding to questions during the preparation of this report.

The panel is greatly indebted to the organizers of the individual workshop sessions—Robert Valdez, School of Public Health MCP Hahnemann University; Lynn Blewett, School of Public Health at the University of Minnesota; Ian Hill, The Urban Institute; and Deborah Chollet, Mathematica Policy Research, Inc. Their command of the issues relating to SCHIP and their choice of speakers made the workshop a lively forum for exchange.

We would like to thank the state policy makers, who have been working creatively and tirelessly to make the SCHIP program a success, for sharing their knowledge. Thanks are also due to the researchers who are developing the new methods needed to understand this complex program and who are so willing to share not only their findings, but also their methods. The worskhop drew on excellent presentations by Vicki Grant, Southern Institute on Children and Families; Linda Bilheimer, The Robert Wood

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Johnson Foundation; Lisa Dubay, The Urban Institute; Thomas Selden, Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality; Ian Hill, The Urban Institute; Hilary Bellamy, Health Systems Research, Inc.; Denise Holmes, Michigan Department of Community Health; Genevieve Kenney, The Urban Institute; David Hanig, Washington Department of Social and Health Services; Robert Gellman, Privacy and Information Policy Consultant; Lynn Blewett, University of Minnesota School of Public Health; Kristen Testa, California Health and Human Services Agency; and Cindy Shirk Center for Medicaid and Medicare Services. The workshop was enriched by the perspectives of many knowledgeable discussants, including Pamela Paul-Shaheen, Center for Advancing Community Health, Michigan; Mary Alice Lee, Connecticut Children’s Health Council; Gestur Davidson, Minnesota Department of Health and Human Services; Steve Norton, Office of Knowledge and Decision Support, New Hampshire; Marilyn Ellwood, Mathematica Policy Research; and Heidi J. Smith, New Jersey FamilyCare. The workshop was also greatly enlivened by the many workshop participants who shared experiences and raised issues from the audience.

In arranging the workshop and in preparing this report, the panel was assisted by the very able NAS staff. Earl Pollack, the study director for the panel and coeditor of this report, supported the panel’s work from inception to publication. We would also like to thank Constance Citro, senior project officer, for advice and wise counsel on numerous issues. The panel is very appreciative of the work of Jamie Casey, research assistant for her excellent work in arranging for the workshop, summarizing the workshop discussions and in contributing to the production of this manuscript. We also thank Danelle Dessaint for arranging the logistics for the workshop.

This report has been reviewed in draft form by individuals chosen for their diverse perspectives and technical expertise, in accordance with procedures approved by the Report Review Committee of the National Research Council (NRC). The purpose of this independent review is to provide candid and critical comments that will assist the institution in making the published report as sound as possible and to ensure that the report meets institutional standards for objectivity, evidence, and responsiveness to the study charge. The review comments and draft manuscript remain confidential to protect the integrity of the deliberative process.

We thank the following individuals for their participation in the review of this report: Larry Bumpass, Center for Demography and Ecology, University of Wisconsin; Emily Feinberg, Health Access Research and

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Evaluation, Massachusetts Department of Public Health; Lorraine V. Klerman, The Heller School for Social Policy and Management, Brandeis University; Trish Riley, National Academy for State Health Policy, Portland, Maine; and Nora Cate Schaeffer, Department of Sociology, University of Wisconsin.

Although the reviewers listed above have provided many constructive comments and suggestions, they were not asked to endorse the conclusions or recommendations nor did they see the final draft of the report before its release. The review of this report was overseen by Alan Zaslavsky, Department of Health Care Policy, Harvard Medical School. Appointed by the National Research Council, he was responsible for making certain that an independent examination of this report was carried out in accordance with institutional procedures and that all review comments were carefully considered. Responsibility for the final content of this report rests entirely with the authoring committee and the institution.

Finally, I am grateful to my fellow panel members for their generous contributions to both the Workshop and to the writing of this report. I am very appreciative of their willingness to apply their expertise and knowledge to efforts to use data more effectively to improve the State Children’s Health Insurance Program. Their cooperation and congeniality made writing this report a pleasure.

Arleen A. Leibowitz, Chair

Panel for the Workshop on the State Children’s Health Insurance Program

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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.

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