Report is HERE.
Originally created and posted on the Oregon Housing Blog.
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Showing posts with label schip. Show all posts
Friday, November 13, 2009
Wednesday, July 15, 2009
Corrected: House Financial Services Subcommittee to Hold Hearing on Work and Health Care for HUD Tenants.
Hearing is on MONDAY, not Saturday....
Hearing is scheduled for Friday in NYC; hearing page is HERE.
I am hopeful that hearing includes discussion about Express Lane income eligibility provisions that would allow housing authority income determinations to be used for Medicaid/SCHIP care eligibility. (See my prior blog post on Express Lane HERE).
I project that housing authorities provide housing for close to 4 million children nationwide.
A fuller explanation of Express Lane and automated enrollment in Medicaid and SCHIP can be found in this Urban Institute publication HERE.
(I have tried to contact two different individuals in Oregon DHS but to date have had no response to my Express Lane questions).
Hearing is scheduled for Friday in NYC; hearing page is HERE.
I am hopeful that hearing includes discussion about Express Lane income eligibility provisions that would allow housing authority income determinations to be used for Medicaid/SCHIP care eligibility. (See my prior blog post on Express Lane HERE).
I project that housing authorities provide housing for close to 4 million children nationwide.
A fuller explanation of Express Lane and automated enrollment in Medicaid and SCHIP can be found in this Urban Institute publication HERE.
(I have tried to contact two different individuals in Oregon DHS but to date have had no response to my Express Lane questions).
Wednesday, February 4, 2009
Thursday, January 29, 2009
PHA's Included as "Express Lane" Agencies Under SCHIP Bills Now Going to Conference.
Thursday PM, the Senate approved their version of H.R. 2, the SCHIP [State Children's Health Insurance] bill 66-32. A Senate-House conference will now meet to reconcile differences between the House and Senate passed bills. [The House passed version of the bill is HERE.]
In listening to the debate, I heard a reference to Express Lane enrollments, which appear to give states the option to accept income eligibility determinations made for other public assistance programs as sufficient for purposes of determining a child's SCHIP income eligibility.
I was pleasantly surprised to find that one of the Express Lane agencies is "A public agency that determines eligibility under..The United States Housing Act of 1937." (In the House bill Express Lane agencies are discussed in Section 203; the reference to the US Housing Act agencies is found on page 110 of the House passed bill).
It would appear from my reading of this language that at a minimum that [income] eligibility determinations made by public housing agencies could be accepted by states in enrolling children into SCHIP. Not sure whether eligibility determinations made by non public agencies (for tenants in privately owned HUD project based units, for example) would be acceptable, but I am sure future guidance would clarify.
Presuming my reading about PHA's at least is correct, and the language is not modified in the House-Senate conference, this provides a streamlined way of quickly enrolling children in SCHIP. (Enrollment and outreach has been a long standing problem).
[I am not sure if Medicaid has a similar provision, but if not there should be, as it seems likely that more children in PHA administered HUD funded housing are eligible for Medicaid than for SCHIP].
In listening to the debate, I heard a reference to Express Lane enrollments, which appear to give states the option to accept income eligibility determinations made for other public assistance programs as sufficient for purposes of determining a child's SCHIP income eligibility.
I was pleasantly surprised to find that one of the Express Lane agencies is "A public agency that determines eligibility under..The United States Housing Act of 1937." (In the House bill Express Lane agencies are discussed in Section 203; the reference to the US Housing Act agencies is found on page 110 of the House passed bill).
It would appear from my reading of this language that at a minimum that [income] eligibility determinations made by public housing agencies could be accepted by states in enrolling children into SCHIP. Not sure whether eligibility determinations made by non public agencies (for tenants in privately owned HUD project based units, for example) would be acceptable, but I am sure future guidance would clarify.
Presuming my reading about PHA's at least is correct, and the language is not modified in the House-Senate conference, this provides a streamlined way of quickly enrolling children in SCHIP. (Enrollment and outreach has been a long standing problem).
[I am not sure if Medicaid has a similar provision, but if not there should be, as it seems likely that more children in PHA administered HUD funded housing are eligible for Medicaid than for SCHIP].
Friday, October 5, 2007
SCHIP Debate: Some Oregon Facts and A Few Comments
With the national discussion on SCHIP gearing up, I thought it might be useful to dig out some facts about kids and health insurance in Oregon. As is the case with housing assistance, the SCHIP debate is first and foremost a political debate. However some of the same policy debates about income targeting and cost sharing we see in housing lie below the surface of the larger political debate.
If your interested, I have prepared this short PDF summary highlighting some of the relevant Oregon data.
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