Center for Health Policy Development/ National Academy for State Health Policy

Portland, ME

$397,309—Convening and research to consider how Medicaid and SCHIP could be used to provide health coverage for more Americans (for 18 months).
ID 52038

Communications Project

Multiple Contractors

$3,375,000—Coverage communications campaign for 2005 (for 14 months).
ID 52017

Communities in Charge: Financing and Delivering Health Care to the Uninsured

Program designed for local communities interested in improving access to care for low-income, uninsured individuals by rethinking the organization and financing of local care delivery.

• Medimetrix Group, Inc.

  Cleveland, OH

  $399,985—Technical assistance and direction for Communities in Charge (15 months).
  ID 47895

• National Center for Primary Care at The Morehouse School of Medicine

  Atlanta, GA

  $289,563—Disseminating lessons learned from community-based coverage programs (2 years).
  ID 51180

Covering Kids and Families®

Program to increase the number of eligible children and adults who are benefiting from federal and state health care coverage programs.

Program Sites

• State of Alabama Department of Public Health

  Montgomery, AL

  $492,336—(2 years).
  ID 51609

• Connecticut Voices for Children Inc.

  New Haven, CT

  $579,309—(22 months).
  ID 50508

• Healthy Mothers, Healthy Babies, The Montana Coalition

  Helena, MT

  $50,000—(1 year).
  ID 48693

• Kansas Children’s Service League

  Wichita, KS

  $49,595—(1 year).
  ID 48695

• South Carolina Hospital Research & Education Foundation Inc.

  West Columbia, SC

  $50,000—(1 year).
  ID 48697

• State of Vermont Department of Health

  Burlington, VT

  $50,000—(1 year).
  ID 48699

Other Program Activities

• GMMB Inc.

  Washington, DC

  $67,771—Fund-raising assistance for Covering Kids and Families grantees (5 months).
  ID 50304

  $1,390,480—Covering Kids and Families communications campaign (fifth annual Back-to-School Campaign) (1 year).
  ID 50755

  $93,503—Fund-raising assistance for Covering Kids and Families grantees (10 months).
  ID 51028

• The Support Fund for the Southern Institute on Children and Families

  Columbia, SC

  $2,641,782—Technical assistance and direction for Covering Kids and Families (1 year).
  ID 48378

Economic and Social Research Institute

Washington, DC

$129,879—Providing policy analysis for Health Care Coverage for the Uninsured partners (for 6 months).
ID 52036

Education & Research Fund of Employee Benefit Research Institute

Washington, DC

$5,000—Updating data charts on the uninsured for www.CoverTheUninsuredWeek.org (for 3 months).
ID 50363

Families USA Foundation Inc.

Washington, DC

$75,000—Consumer Health Action 2005 conference (for 9 months).
ID 51715

The Glover Park Group

Washington, DC

$65,126—Communications consulting for the Foundation’s Coverage strategy (for 3 months).
ID 50604

GYMR LLC

Washington, DC

$35,321—Promoting cost and coverage estimates for the Covering America project (for 3 months).
ID 50459

Health Policy Consulting, LLC

Bethesda, MD

$16,425—Developing fact sheets on the uninsured for www.CoverTheUninsuredWeek.org (for 4 months).
ID 50364

University of Minnesota School of Public Health

Minneapolis, MN

$340,000—Research comparing state administrative records to U.S. Census Bureau data systems to uncover the Medicaid enrollment undercount (for 14 months).
ID 52084

Public Opinion Strategies, L.L.C.

Alexandria, VA

$68,958—Public opinion research on the uninsured (for 6 months).
ID 50182

$20,000—Emergency physician Internet survey on the uninsured for Cover the Uninsured Week 2004 (for 1 month).
ID 50623

Rabin Strategic Partners, Inc.

New York, NY

$60,000—Evaluating coverage strategies post-2005 (for 5 months).
ID 52041

State Coverage Initiatives

Program to help states develop and implement policies that expand access to health insurance coverage.

• Center for Health Policy Development/National Academy for State Health Policy

  Portland, ME

  $274,990—Technical and communications assistance to help implement Maine’s statewide health care coverage initiative (1 year).
  ID 49439

• West Virginia Health Care Authority

  Charleston, WV

  $1,068,284—Expanding a small agency insurance program to provide health insurance coverage for working families (2 years).
  ID 51931

State Solutions: An Initiative to Improve Enrollment in Medicare Savings Programs

Program to maximize enrollment in Medicaid, Qualified Medicare Beneficiary, Selected Low-Income Medicare Beneficiary, and Qualified Individual programs.

• Rutgers, The State University, The Institute for Health, Health Care Policy, and Aging Research

  New Brunswick, NJ

  $1,035,757—Technical assistance and direction for State Solutions (18 months).
  ID 48377

Supporting Families After Welfare Reform: Access to Medicaid, SCHIP and Food Stamps

Program to help states and large counties solve problems in eligibility processes that make it difficult for low-income families to access and retain Medicaid, the State Children’s Health Insurance Program (SCHIP), or Food Stamps, particularly families moving from welfare to work.

• The Support Fund for the Southern Institute on Children and Families

  Columbia, SC

  $548,535—Development of a Medicaid eligibility process improvement collaborative (16 months).
  ID 51831

Urban Institute

Washington, DC

$99,662—Analytical support for issues in coverage (1 year).
ID 52513

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