Hilltop to Collaborate with RWJF SHARE Program on Issue Brief on Use of Tax Forms to Identify Medicaid-Eligible Children

The Hilltop Institute’s Director of Medicaid Policy Studies David Idala made a panel presentation entitled Preliminary Findings of an Evaluation of the Maryland Kids First Act: The Use of Tax Forms to Identify Medicaid/SCHIP-Eligible Children at an AcademyHealth Special Interest Group (SIG) Meeting on June 27 in Chicago, Illinois. The presentation, part of the pre-conference proceedings of the AcademyHealth National Research Meeting, was based on an abstract that had been one of 33 high-quality abstracts submitted for peer review. Only two abstracts were chosen for this panel following the rigorous selection process. Idala is the principal investigator of a Robert Wood Johnson Foundation funded State Health Access Reform Evaluation (SHARE) project entitled Evaluating the Success of Maryland’s Kids First Act Outreach at Identifying and Enrolling Uninsured Eligible Children in Medicaid or SCHIP. As a result of the presentation, SHARE has invited Hilltop to collaborate on an issue brief regarding the preliminary findings of the study. To view the presentation, click here.

June 28, 2009