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Building A Consumer-Driven Eligibility, Enrollment, and Renewal System: Essential Design Features for Effective Health Reform in California

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 By Dawn Horner and Beth Morrow | January 2012

roadmap_thumbnailThis roadmap lays out the four design features (and practical recommendations for action within each) necessary to enroll almost 4 million Californians newly eligible for subsidized health coverage under health reform, in addition to assisting the over 8 million already receiving such coverage. While written with a specific focus on California, the information and recommendations in the report will be relevant to decisionmakers in any state.

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

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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.

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

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

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Future of Children Article "Express Lane Eligibility"

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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.

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

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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).

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

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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. 

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Healthy Families: Health Insurance Through One Door

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By Dawn Horner and Wendy Lazarus
March 2001

HealthyFamPicA 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.

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WIC: A Door to Health Care for California’s Children

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By Roxana Barillas and Dawn Horner
July 2000

WICPicThis publication by The Children’s Partnership and California WIC Association examines ways to make the WIC and the Medicaid/SCHIP (Medi-Cal/Healthy Families) connection work more effectively to increase the number of insured WIC-enrolled children in California.

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Express Lane Eligibility: How to Enroll Large Groups of Uninsured Children in Medicaid and CHIP

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By Dawn Horner, Wendy Lazarus, and Beth Morrow
December 1999

ELEHowtoEnrollThis strategy brief provides a general overview of the issue of Express Lane Eligibility. It examines how states can utilize programs such as food stamps to help find and enroll the roughly 7 million uninsured American children eligible for health insurance.

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Reaching 100% of California's Children with Affordable Health Insurance: A Strategic Audit of Activi

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By Dawn Horner, Wendy Lazarus, Marsha McCready, and Beth Morrow
September 1998

Reaching100PicA report developed by The Children's Partnership under the auspices of the 100% Campaign, a coordinated effort with Children Now and the Children's Defense Fund. It presents the public and private sector opportunities, barriers and best strategies for expanding coverage to all of California's uninsured children.

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Submitted Comments on 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.
  • Comments on Stage 3 Meaningful Use
    on January 14, 2013
    Download TCP's submitted comments to the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology, HIT Policy Committee, regarding Stage 3 Meaningful Use criteria.
  • Comments, California Health Information Exchange “Strategic and Operational Plan, June 2012”
    on August 09, 2012

    Download TCP's comments  on California's HIE Strategic and Operational Plan, submitted August 9, 2012

  • Comments, Improving Outcomes for Disconnected Youth RFI
    on July 05, 2012
    Read the official comments to the U.S. Department of Education on improving outcomes for disconnected youth.
  • Comments on Stage 2 Proposed Rules
    on May 07, 2012
    Download submitted comments  to CMS regarding CMS-0044-P, Meaningful Use Stage 2 Proposed Rules.
    May 7, 2012
  • Comments on Stage 2 Preliminary Recommendations
    on February 25, 2011
    Download our submitted comments to the US Department of Health and Human Services, Office of National Coordinator for Health Information Technology regarding the Meaningful Use Workgroup request regarding Meaningful Use Stage 2.
  • Proposed Rules, Electronic Health Record (EHR) Incentive Program
    on March 12, 2010

    Download the submitted comments to HIT Policy Committee, CMS-0033-P

  • Comments on Stage 1 Proposed Rules
    on March 12, 2010
    Download comments submitted to CMS on Meaningful Use of Health IT , March 12, 2012.
  • Comments on the HIT provisions of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act
    on May 26, 2009

    Download submitted comments  on Promoting Children’s Health Through Meaningful Use of HIT

Letters of Support on Health IT

  • SB 1050 (Alquist) - Letter to the Governor
    on August 29, 2012
    The Children's Partnership urges Governor Brown to sign SB 1050, which establishes am Autism Telehealth Taskforce within the Department of Developmental Services (DSS).  Read more about the Taskforce in this letter .
  • The Children's Partnership Sponsors SB 1050
    on July 05, 2012

    The Children's Partnership submitted a letter to California State Senator Alquist as a sponsor of SB 1050, which establishes an Autism Telehealth Taskforce within the Department of Developmental Services (DSS).

    It requires DDS to identify a Lead Administrator that will be responsible for the activities and work of the Taskforce. The Taskforce will provide technical assistance to DSS in the area of telehealth services for individuals with ASDs. Further, it will provide recommendations for the implementation of at least one demonstration site project that promotes the use of telehealth and technology to assist and improve the delivery of services for children with ASDs.

    Download the full letter here. 

Testimony on Health IT

  • Technology and Autism Spectrum Disorders: Senate Select Committee on Autism and Related Disorders Informational Hearing
    on February 22, 2012

    Jenny Kattlove, Director, Strategic Health Initiatives
    California State Capitol Building, Room 3191
    February 22, 2012

    Info on event here.

  • Testimony, Consumer Perspective on EHR Usability
    on April 21, 2011

    Download testimony to the Certifcation/Adoption Workgroup on the impact of EHR Usability on the Consumer.
    April 21, 2011

Presentations on Health IT

  • 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 Linkage and Information Sharing Committee
    San Francisco, CA

    Download the presentation here. (pdf)

  • Expanding the Use of a Personal Health Record (PHR) System to California’s Foster Care Population
    on November 02, 2012

    Ginny Puddefoot presented at the state Health Information Exchange (HIE) Summit; highlighting the public/private collaborative effort led by TCP to develop a Strategic Plan to implement the state’s “Audacious Goal” to provide every child in foster care with a PHR within five years. 

    Downoad the Power Point presentation here

  • Improving Outcomes for Children in Foster Care: The Role of Electronic Information Exchange
    on September 19, 2012

    Ginny Puddefoot presented with Barry Zimmerman, Director of Ventura County Human Services Agency, to the California Child Welfare Council’s Information Sharing and Data Exchange Committee; highlighting TCP’s work on HIT and Care Coordination and the proposed Ventura County Foster Health Link Project.

    Download the Power Point Presentation here

  • Congressional Briefing: Electronic Information Exchange for Children in Foster Care
    on May 17, 2012

    Beth Morrow, Director, Health IT Initiatives
    Children's Health Care Caucus, Washington, DC
    May 17, 2012

    Download the Power Point Presentation

  • Improving Health Outcomes for Children in Foster Care: The Role of Electronic Information Exchange
    on March 29, 2012

    Ginny Puddefoot, Director HIT Initiatives for Vulnerable Youth
    March 29, 2012

    Download the Power Point Presentation