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It's Time to Protect Healthy Families

Calitics

Wendy Lazarus, Founder and Co-President, on a common-sense, alternative approach to the Healthy Families shift to Medi-Cal.

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California's Experience Designing a Streamlined User-Friendly Enrollment System

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Kristen Golden Testa, Health Director
Health Action 2012 Families USA, Washington DC
January 19, 2012

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

 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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Expanding California’s Dental Team to Care for Underserved Children: New Times, New Solutions

 By Jenny Kattlove | November 2011

dental_workforce_thumbnailThis Brief provides an overview of the challenges faced by California's children and their families in obtaining necessary dental care and outlines a workforce innovation designed to bridge the supply gap between existing providers and California's most vulnerable children. This Brief also provides a proposal for action, laying out a practical solution to help California's state and community leaders ensure children get the dental care they need and to make real the promise of health care reform.

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SHOP TALK: Recommendations for Ensuring Best Health Coverage Outcomes For Children and Families

By Kathleen Hamilton

This paper provides recommendations to the California Health Benefit Exchange Board (HBEX) as it proceeds with the implementation of the SHOP program for small employers. These recommendations are aimed at ensuring that families covered through SHOP have access to and understand the best affordable care available for children. As a participant of the CA HBEX Board's Stakeholder SHOP Work Group, The Children's Partnership sees the SHOP as a critical piece of the children's coverage matrix and has identified key issues around incorporating the SHOP Program into the IT system design. Further, SHOP is critical to ensuring that all possible avenues of providing health coverage for children are maximized.

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Keeping on Track: California Continues to Move Forward on Health Insurance Exchange

Say Ahhh! A Children's Health Policy Blog

Kathleen Hamilton guest blogs about the progress of CA Health Exchange. 

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A Step-by-Step Guide to Health Insurance Enrollment in California

By Beth Morrow, Kristen Golden Testa, Terri Shaw, and Lisa Han | July 2011

insurance_guide_thumbnailThis visual companion piece to Easy, Efficient, Real-Time (EER): A Framework for a First-Class Health Insurance Enrollment Experience in California walks the viewer through an individual's ideal enrollment experience. View the Guide.

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Easy, Efficient, and Real-Time (EER): A Framework for a First-Class Health Insurance Enrollment Experience in California

By Beth Morrow, Kristen Golden Testa, Terri Shaw, and Lisa Han | July 2011

eer-imageThis Framework lays out, step by step, how eligibility, enrollment, and retention should work for consumers so that California can meet the expectations of the Affordable Care Act. While developed for California, this Framework can be used in any state to help stakeholders focus on the elements that matter most for consumers. It is designed to be a practical resource for decision-makers as they work to achieve our shared goal: a simple, efficient door into health care in California that works well for its consumers.

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Progress of the California Health Benefit Exchange (HBEX)

Say Ahhh! A Children Health Policy Blog

Kathleen Hamilton guest blogs  an the CA HBEX.

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California Not Making the Grade When it Comes to Children's Dental Health

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Wendy Lazarus piece on Pew's "report card" on California's ability to meet the dental care needs of children.

 

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Keeping Up with the California Health Benefit Exchange Board: Starting Off On the Fast Track

Say Ahhh! A Children's Health Policy Blog

Kathleen Hamilton guest blogs on the Health Exchange Board's aggressive agenda and meeting schedule for 2011.

 

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Children in Health Reform: Perspective from a California Leader

Wendy Lazarus guest blogs about the promise of health reform and the leadership needed for covering children.
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Our Latest on Foster Care Coordination

  • Assembly Committee on Human Services’ Informational Hearing
    on May 14, 2013
  • Expanding the Use of a Personal Health Record (PHR) System to California’s Foster Care Population
    on March 06, 2013
  • Joint Letter on the Proposed Regulations for Medicaid to Age 26 for Eligible Former Foster Youth
    on February 20, 2013
  • The Children's Partnership Releases New Issue Brief on Electronic Information Exchange for Children in Foster Care
    on January 24, 2013
  • Electronic Information Exchange: Elements that Matter for Children in Foster Care
    on January 17, 2013