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Santoro K, Murphy B, Pirani H, Chickley N. 2009. Increasing access to health insurance for children and families: Innovative health plan outreach and enrollment efforts. Washington, DC: National Institute for Health Care Management Research and Educational Foundation, 18 pp (Issue brief)

Annotation: This brief examines innovative health plan efforts to increase enrollment in Medicaid and the State Children's Health Insurance Program as well as to create and market more affordable private insurance coverage options. The brief also examines the increasing role of health plan philanthropic foundations in efforts to promote access to insurance. Topics include health plan efforts to improve outreach and enrollment, health plan philanthropic foundations and community coverage efforts, and health plan efforts to increase affordable private insurance options. [Funded by the Maternal and Child Health Bureau]

Keywords: , Access to health care, Child health, Costs, Enrollment: Medicaid, Foundations, Health insurance, Low income groups, Outreach, State Children's Health Insurance Program, Uninsured persons

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