IMPORTANT: Look for your child’s Medicaid or CHIP renewal in the mail, complete it and mail it back immediately. They may be covered even if you’re not! Go to Medicaid.gov/renewals to find contact information for your state Medicaid office.
Developing unique outreach strategies–tailored to a community’s needs–can boost Medicaid and Children's Health Insurance Program (CHIP) enrollment efforts. Organizations across the country are thinking outside the box and supplementing their traditional outreach work with innovative practices. Speakers on this webinar represented local organizations conducting unique efforts; they shared ideas to help implement standout outreach strategies at the community level.
School administrators and leaders are engaging in strategic approaches to reduce the number of eligible students not enrolled in Medicaid or CHIP. Professionals who work in school environments are uniquely positioned to identify children that need health coverage. They are using this opportunity to forge partnerships with community organizations and actively assist in connecting families to health care.
There may be many untapped opportunities to engage with non-traditional partners to further an organization’s reach and to boost Medicaid and Children's Health Insurance Program (CHIP) enrollment. These partnerships can strengthen the connections between daily lives and health care, ultimately enrolling more families and children in Medicaid and CHIP. Learn how to engage community partners who may not be top of mind when planning outreach and enrollment strategies, but are key in helping to reduce the number of uninsured children.
While there has been steady progress in reducing the number of uninsured Hispanic children in the United States, access to and enrollment in health coverage for Hispanic children and families continues to be disproportionately lower than other demographics. Hispanic children are one and a half times as likely to be uninsured than all other children.
Organizations, navigators and others helping to enroll families in health insurance play an important role connecting eligible, but unenrolled children who need health care coverage, to Medicaid and Children's Health Insurance Program (CHIP). And while enrollment in these programs is open year-round, some families may learn about their eligibility during Marketplace Open Enrollment – as this is a time of the year when attention to health coverage is high.