CKF staff assembled the following resources for enrollment professionals, health advocates, and others interested in health care for Colorado families. This section will be updated regularly, so check back often!
Table of Contents
Outreach and Enrollment
Colorado Children's Medicaid and CHP+ Enrollment Reports
Application Assistance
Certified Application Assistance Sites
Helpful Resources for Application Assistance Sites
Getting Citizenship or Identity Documents
Presumptive Eligibility
Appeals Process
Immigrants and Public Benefits
Getting Care
Resources to Help Community Organizations Complete Applications
Rules and Regulations
Colorado Medicaid and CHP+ Websites
Web Resources
Outreach and Enrollment
- CKF Brief: Innovative School-Based Outreach and Enrollment Tactics for Medicaid and CHP+ - Fall 2009
CKF produced a brief highlighting the outreach and enrollment work done by three school-based pilot projects that make it easier for families to enroll their children into Medicaid and Child Health Plan Plus (CHP+) through schools. These three pilot sites find low-income, uninsured children by sharing necessary information as families apply for free- or reduced-price lunches and are able to determine eligibility for Medicaid and CHP+ on site. Click here to learn about the work done and lessons learned by these pilots.
- CKF Report: Case Management Report - August 2008
CKF staff and Coalition members developed recommendations regarding the additional $1.4 million in HCPF's budget dedicated to Medicaid and CHP+ outreach. A Case Management Approach to Medicaid and CHP+ Enrollment- Recommendations for Colorado's Investment in Medicaid and CHP+ Outreach outlines an approach that supports families and the sites that assist them with Medicaid and CHP+ enrollment. This paper is based on a comprehensive definition of outreach that includes informing families about the programs, providing application assistance, promoting access to care, and ensuring renewal. In addition, the paper makes the case that sites need adequate training and financial support in order to provide enrollment assistance.
- Children EBNE in Medicaid and CHP+ - March 2011 Colorado Health Institute (CHI) publishes annual estimates of Colorado children eligible but not enrolled (EBNE) in Medicaid and CHP+ by county to help state and local policymakers understand enrollment patterns in their communities. Colorado Children's Health Insurance Status - 2011 Update
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Colorado Children's Medicaid and CHP+ Enrollment Reports
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Application Assistance
- Certified Application Assistance Sites
- Helpful Resources for Application Assistance Sites
- Getting Citizenship or Identity Documents
- Presumptive Eligibility
- Appeals Process
- Immigrants and Public Benefits
- Getting Care
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Resources to Help Community Organizations Complete Applications
Listed below are fact sheets, forms, and other materials developed by Community Based Organizations that might be useful to other sites.
- Self Employment Log - An example for families of what they can develop to maintain their own information related to self-employment income and expenses. Self- employment income is self-declared for Medicaid and CHP+ applicants so families do not need to submit this form with their application. It's meant to be a tool to help families get organized.
- Sample Stamp for Verifying DRA Documents - First time Medicaid applicants and renewing CHP+ clients must either submit original documents (NOT recommended) or have their documents verified by a document verification site. This stamp serves as a model for sites that want to develop their own stamp to streamline the process of verifying documents.
- Case Summary Form - Provides a place to consolidate all case information including demographics, PE and Physician information, referrals, and income.
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Rules and Regulations
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Colorado Medicaid and CHP+ Websites
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Web Resources
- Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) - Federal agency that oversees the federal Medicaid program and the Children's Health Insurance Programs
- Colorado All Kids Covered (AKC)
- Colorado Center on Law and Policy (CCLP) – CCLP focuses primarily on issues affecting poor and working poor families and individuals with a major emphasis on economic self-sufficiency and access to health care
- Colorado Children’s Campaign – Colorado Children’s Campaign acts as a bi-partisan voice for children from the state capitol to communities across the state, focusing on expanding access to quality healthcare, early childhood experiences and K-12 education.
- Colorado Coalition for the Medically Underserved (CCMU)
- CHI - CHI serves as a comprehensive source of health data resources and policy analysis for policymakers, health planners, the business and nonprofit communities, advocacy and consumer groups, health care providers, foundations, and the media.
- Colorado Consumer Health Initiative (CCHI) – CCHI is a consensus-based membership organization that acts as a unified representative of its members and partners at the legislature and in the community to influence and shape effective health care policy to ensure barrier-free access to quality health care for all Coloradans.
- Cover the Uninsured - The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation's national week of action to increase public awareness about the growing population of uninsured people
- Families USA - A national nonprofit, non-partisan organization dedicated to the achievement of high-quality, affordable health care for all Americans
- Georgetown Center for Children and Families
- HealthCare.gov
- Kaiser State Health Facts Online - Comprehensive and comparative health facts, which include data on uninsured rates, Medicaid and CHP+ enrollment numbers and eligibility facts
- MaxEnroll
- The Commonwealth Fund - A private foundation that supports independent research on health and social issues and makes grants to improve health care practice and policy
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