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Building Efficient and Effective Medicaid and CHIP Enrollment Systems: Core Requirements to Ensure the Greatest Value for Children and Families

October 2009

Terms:Beth Morrow, CHIP/Healthy Families, Health , Medicaid/Medi-Cal

Why Express Lane Eligibility Makes Sense for States and Low-Income Families

By Beth Morrow | October 2009

Terms:Beth Morrow, Express Lane / ELE, Health

Wendy Lazarus on California's Efforts to Save Children's Health Insurance

Capitol Weekly

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Terms:Blog, California Coverage, CHIP/Healthy Families, Health , Press Clips, Wendy Lazarus

Express Lane Eligibility Efforts: Lessons Learned from Early State Cross-Program Enrollment Initiatives

By Beth Morrow | August 2009

Terms:Beth Morrow, Express Lane / ELE, Health

The Express Lane Story: Turning Common Sense into Public Policy

June 2009

Terms:Express Lane / ELE, Health

Wendy Lazarus on Proposition 1D

California Healthline

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Terms:Health , Press Clips, Wendy Lazarus

Wendy Lazarus Letter to the Editor on Uninsured Children in California

Los Angeles Times

Download the letter to the editor here.

Terms:California Coverage, Health , Press Clips, Wendy Lazarus

California's Children Need a Strong SCHIP Reauthorization Before March 2009

By The Children's Partnership | September 2008

Terms:California, CHIP/Healthy Families, Health

Meeting the Health Care Needs of California's Children: The Role of Telemedicine

By Jenny Kattlove with Terri Shaw | March 2008

Terms:Digital Opportunity, Health , Health IT, HIT, Internet and 21st Century Skills, Jenny Kattlove, Technology, Telehealth, Terri Shaw

Meeting the Health Care Needs of California Children in Schools and Child Care: Telemedicine Can Help

By The Children's Partnership

Terms:Health , Health IT, HIT, Internet and 21st Century Skills, Telehealth

E-Health Snapshot: Harnessing Technology to Improve Medicaid and SCHIP

By Beth Morrow with Dawn Horner | May 2007

Terms:Beth Morrow, CHIP/Healthy Families, Dawn Horner, Health , HIT, Medicaid/Medi-Cal

Reaching Uninsured Children in Provisional Schools Through Express Enrollment Strategies

By Dawn Horner and Dania Wasongarz

August 2006

Terms:Dawn Horner, Express Lane / ELE, Health

California's Express Enrollment Program: Lessons from the Medi-Cal/School Lunch Pilot Program-And Suggested Next Steps in Making Enrollment Gateways Efficient and Effective

By Dawn Horner | July 2006

Terms:Dawn Horner, Express Lane / ELE, Health

Using Existing Databases to Meet the New Medi-Cal Citizenship Documentation Requirement in the Deficit Reduction Act: Ex Parte Options for California

By Beth Morrow with Dawn Horner

May 2006

Terms:Beth Morrow, California, Dawn Horner, Health , Medicaid/Medi-Cal

Opening Doorways to Health Care for Children: 10 Steps to Ensure Eligible but Uninsured Children Get Health Insurance

By Dawn Horner and Beth Morrow | May 2006

Terms:Beth Morrow, CHIP/Healthy Families, Dawn Horner, Health , Medicaid/Medi-Cal

Health Savings Accounts & High Deductible Health Plans: How They Affect Children

By The Children's Partnership
February 2006

Terms:Health

Mapping Children's Health Care Enrollment: Recommendations for Improvement

By Jenny Kattlove with Maral Farsi
July 2005

Terms:Health , Jenny Kattlove, Medicaid/Medi-Cal

Building an On-Ramp to Children's Health Insurance: A Report on California's Express Lane Eligibility Program

By Dawn Horner with Beth Morrow and Wendy Lazarus
September 2004

This report by The Children's Partnership documents the results from California’s Express Lane initiative that has been piloted in 72 schools.

Download the report (PDF, 936 KB).

Terms:Beth Morrow, California, Dawn Horner, Express Lane / ELE, Health , Wendy Lazarus

Express Lane Eligibility's Owner's Manual

From The Children's Partnership
June 2004

This Owner's Manual provides all the tools a school district needs to implement an Express Lane program in California. It is a "one-stop-shop" that includes a step-by-step guide, frequently asked questions, lessons learned from the field, resources, and links to documents.

For a copy of the Owner's Manual, This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it .

Terms:Express Lane / ELE, Health

Putting Children on the Express Lane to Health Insurance: A Primer on Implementing Express Enrollment Through School Lunch (AB 59)

By Dawn Horner | October 2003

Terms:Dawn Horner, Express Lane / ELE, Health

Closing Health Insurance Gaps for Families: WIC Can Make It Happen

By Wendy Jacobson, Kristen Testa, and Dawn Horner | May 2003

Terms:Dawn Horner, Express Lane / ELE, Health , Kristen Golden Testa

Future of Children Article "Express Lane Eligibility"

By Dawn Horner, Wendy Lazarus and Beth Morrow
Spring 2003

This article published in The Future of Children journal "Health Insurance for Children" (volume 13, no. 1) describes the potential of Express Lane Eligibility and provides examples of how it can be implemented.

Download the article. (PDF, 81KB)

Terms:Beth Morrow, Dawn Horner, Express Lane / ELE, Health , Wendy Lazarus

Children Falling Through the Health Insurance Cracks: Early Observations and Promising Strategies for Keeping Low-Income Children Covered by Medi-Cal & Healthy Families

By Kristen Testa, Larissa Mohamadi, Dawn Horner, Wendy Lazarus, Jayleen Richards, and Len Finocchio
January 2003

This report by The Children's Partnership and Children Now, as part of the 100% Campaign, offers promising strategies, including renewal through other public programs, for keeping California's low-income children covered by Medicaid/SCHIP (Medi-Cal and Healthy Families in California).

Download the report (PDF, 1 MB).

Terms:Dawn Horner, Health , Kristen Golden Testa, Medicaid/Medi-Cal, Wendy Lazarus

The Majority of California's Low-Income Uninsured Children Are Enrolled in the School Lunch Program:

By Dawn Horner and Holly Kenny
December 2002

This eight-page Issue Brief reports on the estimates and characteristics of the California children who stand to benefit from Express Lane Eligibility.

Download the brief (PDF, 488 KB).

Terms:Dawn Horner, Express Lane / ELE, Health

Healthy Families: Health Insurance Through One Door

By Dawn Horner and Wendy Lazarus
March 2001

HealthyFamPic A report developed by The Children's Partnership as part of the 100% Campaign, a coordinated effort with Children Now and the Children's Defense Fund. It provides recommendations for creating a unified health insurance program for California's children and their parents.

Download the report (PDF, 150 KB).

Terms:Dawn Horner, Health , Wendy Lazarus

Children's Health Care/Health Reform

The Children's Partnership Joins Coalition at Press Event to Urge for Action on Medi-Cal Expansion

on April 11, 2013
Santa Monica, CA - Wendy Lazarus, Founder & Co-President, joins a broad coalition of health care officials and advocates for a press event in Los Angeles ...
Wendy Lazarus on Children and the ACA, A High-Stakes Recipe for Success

on April 10, 2013
Huffington Post Blog

Wendy Lazarus outlines the main "ingredients" for succes that matter the most for kids under the ACA. "Our collective job over the months ...

Health IT

Comments on RFI on Accelerating Interoperability and Information Exchange Across the Care Continuum

on April 22, 2013
The Children's Partnership joins a list of twenty-one organizations on this sign-on letter from the Consumer Partnership for eHealth and the Campaign from Better Care, responding to the HHS Request for Information (RFI) on advancing interoperability and health information exchange.
Beth Morrow Joins Consumer Empowerment Workgroup

on April 05, 2013
The Children's Partnership is pleased to announe that Beth Morrow, Director of Health IT Initiatives, is joining the Consumer Empowerment Workgroup (CEWG) of the Health IT Policy Committee (HITPC). The newly formed Consumer Empowerment Workgroup’s charge is to provide recommendations on policy issues and opportunities for strengthening the ability of consumers, ...

Family-Friendly Enrollment

Interviews with Innovators from Oklahoma

on April 22, 2013
Innovations in Health Reform Update April 2013 (pdf)

When it comes to innovators in health reform, Oklahoma deserves special recognition for taking steps to put an online real-time eligibility and enrollment system into place even before the ACA passed. In 2007, Oklahoma began planning for a first-class paperless ...

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Group Comments on Proposed Regulations Governing Eligibility and Enrollment for the Individual Exchange

on April 03, 2013
Download submitted comments from The Children's Partnership and our consumer advocate partners regarding the Exchange's March 21, 2013 proposed eligibility and enrollment regulations for the Individual Exchange (Covered California).

Dental Health

Virtual Dental Home Educational Event

on May 08, 2013
Come Learn About an Innovative Model to Bring Dental Care to Children in Preschool Settings

The Virtual Dental Home creates a community-based oral health delivery system in ...

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Jenny Kattlove Advocates for Alternatives to Increase Access to Oral Care for California's Children.

on May 01, 2013
California Health Report

Concern over accessibility to dental care for children on Medi-Cal brings to surface the need for alternative solutions to increase access. "One of ...

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Foster Care Coordination

Expanding the Use of a Personal Health Record (PHR) System to California’s Foster Care Population

on March 06, 2013

Ginny Puddefoot, , Director of HIT Initiatives for Vulnerable Youth

California Child Welfare Council
Data ...

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Joint Letter on the Proposed Regulations for Medicaid to Age 26 for Eligible Former Foster Youth

on February 20, 2013
The Children's Partnership joined the Children's Defense Fund and other child advocacy organizations on a letter to HHS on a new health care law requirement ...

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Internet and 21st Century Skills

Wendy Lazarus on Social Gaming and Child Poverty

on September 27, 2012
Huffington Post

As gaming becomes more social, it is expanding into parts of society once seen as untouched by video games. The largest of these groups is women, who make up 55 percent of social gamers on average. Women are also more likely than men to make charitable contributions, care about ...

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TCP Gaming Paper Encourages Gaming Industry Towards Philanthropy

on September 26, 2012
The Washington Post

An article highlighting the VirtuallyGood4Kids (VG4K) inititative encouraging the gaming "industry to provide parents and their kids with more opportunities to direct the money they spend on virtual purchases toward fundraising causes."

Learn more about VirtuallyGood4Kids.

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Health

Building Efficient and Effective Medicaid and CHIP Enrollment Systems: Core Requirements to Ensure the Greatest Value for Children and Families

Why Express Lane Eligibility Makes Sense for States and Low-Income Families

Wendy Lazarus on California's Efforts to Save Children's Health Insurance

Express Lane Eligibility Efforts: Lessons Learned from Early State Cross-Program Enrollment Initiatives

The Express Lane Story: Turning Common Sense into Public Policy

Wendy Lazarus on Proposition 1D

Wendy Lazarus Letter to the Editor on Uninsured Children in California

California's Children Need a Strong SCHIP Reauthorization Before March 2009

Meeting the Health Care Needs of California's Children: The Role of Telemedicine

Meeting the Health Care Needs of California Children in Schools and Child Care: Telemedicine Can Help

E-Health Snapshot: Harnessing Technology to Improve Medicaid and SCHIP

Reaching Uninsured Children in Provisional Schools Through Express Enrollment Strategies

California's Express Enrollment Program: Lessons from the Medi-Cal/School Lunch Pilot Program-And Suggested Next Steps in Making Enrollment Gateways Efficient and Effective

Using Existing Databases to Meet the New Medi-Cal Citizenship Documentation Requirement in the Deficit Reduction Act: Ex Parte Options for California

Opening Doorways to Health Care for Children: 10 Steps to Ensure Eligible but Uninsured Children Get Health Insurance

Health Savings Accounts & High Deductible Health Plans: How They Affect Children

Mapping Children's Health Care Enrollment: Recommendations for Improvement

Building an On-Ramp to Children's Health Insurance: A Report on California's Express Lane Eligibility Program

Express Lane Eligibility's Owner's Manual

Putting Children on the Express Lane to Health Insurance: A Primer on Implementing Express Enrollment Through School Lunch (AB 59)

Closing Health Insurance Gaps for Families: WIC Can Make It Happen

Future of Children Article "Express Lane Eligibility"

Children Falling Through the Health Insurance Cracks: Early Observations and Promising Strategies for Keeping Low-Income Children Covered by Medi-Cal & Healthy Families

The Majority of California's Low-Income Uninsured Children Are Enrolled in the School Lunch Program:

Healthy Families: Health Insurance Through One Door

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