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Rhode Island Covering
Kids and Families Materials:
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Do you qualify for RIte Care or RIte Share? Read more from the Rhode Island Department of Human Services about your health care options in English, Spanish, or Portuguese.
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RIte Care Application Assistance is available in your community! Family Resource Counselors are located at community health centers, hospitals and community-based organizations to assist families in completing RIte Care applications. Family Resource Counselors also assist families with renewing their RIte Care each year. Click here for a listing in English. Click here for a listing in Portuguese. Click here for a listing in Spanish.
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RIte Care Myths
Read about common RIte Care myths in English, Spanish, or Portuguese.
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Want to keep your RIte Care? Read tips in English, Portugeuse or Spanish on how to keep your RIte Care health coverage.
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The Rhode Island Department of Human Services has launched a new feature on its web site that allows visitors to answer a few simple questions about their family and income to see if they qualify for Medical Assistance (RIte Care/RIte Share) and Food Stamps. Visitors can also download a RIte Care application or request that one be mailed to them. This new prescreening feature is designed to make families more aware of the programs that they are eligible for. Click here to go to the new site.
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"Employers Did You Know..." brochure - As part of Cover the Uninsured Week events, Covering Kids & Families released a brochure for employers titled "Employers Did You Know..." The brochure gives information to employers that will help their employees to access health insurance, The Earned Income Tax Credit, Food Stamps and Child Care Subsidies. Click here to read the brochure.
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March 10, 2003: Rhode Island KIDS COUNT, in partnership with Covering Kids and Families Rhode Island, releases latest Issue Brief: Health Insurance for Children and Families
Among all 50 states, Rhode Island has the lowest percentage of uninsured people (7.2%), the lowest percentage of uninsured women of childbearing age (8.2%), and the lowest rate of uninsured children (4.5%) according to this latest Issue Brief. The brief recognizes investments and effective innovations in RIte Care, highlights trends in publicly-financed and employer-sponsored health insurance in Rhode Island, and presents a set of recommendations designed to ensure that all Rhode Islanders continue to have access to high quality health care.
Read the Issue Brief.
Explore the Cover the Uninsured Week website.
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National Reports and Resources:
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State Medicaid Managed Care Evaluations and Reports
April 2004 - The Center for Health Care Strategies, Inc. in its new resource paper, State Medicaid Managed Care Evaluations and Reports: Themes, Variations, and Lessons, James Verdier, of Mathematica Policy Research, and Robert Hurley, of Virginia Commonwealth University, look at how four states: Arizona, Maryland, Rhode Island, and Virginia have evaluated and reported on their Medicaid managed care programs to help ensure that public dollars are being put to good use and that Medicaid beneficiaries are receiving high-quality, efficiently administered care, and draw lessons for other states from their experiences.
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June 16, 2003-The Covering Kids and Families National Program Office has released the report Maintaining the Gains: The Importance of Preserving Coverage in Medicaid and SCHIP, by Ellen O'Brien, Ph.D., and Cindy Mann, J.D. The number of low-income children with health insurance coverage has increased over the past several years due largely to expansions of eligibility and efforts to promote enrollment of eligible children in Medicaid and the State Children's Health Insurance Program (SCHIP). In the midst of the fiscal pressures that states are facing, it is easy to lose sight of the reasons why states and communities sought to expand coverage in recent years. This paper presents evidence on why it is important to maintain the gains that have been made over the past several years, and build on the improvements in Medicaid and SCHIP coverage for children and families.
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The Kaiser Commission on Medicaid and the Uninsured published a report in December 2003 entitled, "The Uninsured: A primer , Key facts About Americans without Health Insurance". The report gives a clear picture of the 43 million uninsured in America, the barriers they face and what can be done about it. Read the report here.
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The Commonwealth Fund released an Issue Brief in November 2003, entitled, "Churn, Churn, Churn: How Instability of Health Insurance Shapes American's uninsurance Problems". The report discusses the growing problem of insurance instability and gaps in coverage for millions of Americans. Read the report here.
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Families USA: Families USA prepared a report that was released by The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation in March 2003 titled, Going Without Health Insurance: Nearly One in Three Non-Elderely Americans to kickoff Cover the Uninsured Week. The report found that nearly on out of three non-elderly adults (74.7 million people) were uninsured at some point during 2001-2002.
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The Future of Children: In addition, the Future of Children has released Health Insurance for Children: A Synopsis, which is a 20-page summary containing condensed, two-page versions of each article from the latest latest issue of The Future of Children journal. The Synopsis is adapted directly from the pages of the journal, distilling each article to its key points. Selected graphics and a bibliography are included.
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Lake Snell Perry & Associates (LSPA) has completed a literature review in July 2003 on retention entitled Retaining Eligible Children and Families in Medicaid and SCHIP: What We Know So Far. Covering Kids & Families commissioned the review to help inform states, grantees and others working on retention by condensing the insights from many different studies and experts into one document. The report includes detailed findings on the scope of retention challenges, why retention matters, barriers to understanding the challenges, why eligible families lose coverage, ideas for improvement, gaps in knowledge, communications strategies and an extensive list of sources.
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The Urban Institute analyzed data from the third round of the National Survey of America's Families in their July 31, 2003 release entitled, Children's Insurance Coverage and Service Use Improve. The findings show that between 1999 and 2002, the number of uninsured children under age 19 fell from 9.6 to 7.8 million. The uninsurance rate among low-income children declined by nearly six percentage points. Regardless of family income, uninsurance rates among black and Hispanic children declined by more than four percentage points each. Receipt of well-child care, office visits, and dental care by low-income children increased by 3.5 percentage points, 4.5 percentage points, and 2.1 percentage points respectively. More than 4 million uninsured children appear eligible for Medicaid or SCHIP. An analysis released on July 31, 2003 by the Urban Institute, titled Familiarity with Medicaid and SCHIP Programs Grows and Interest in Enrolling Children is High shows that between 1999 and 2002, the share of low-income uninsured children whose parents had heard of their state's separate SCHIP program increased from 47.2 to 70.6 percent. Among families familiar with Medicaid or SCHIP, 81.7 percent of low-income uninsured children had parents who said they would enroll their child if told the child was eligible.
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