Date of Graduation

2004

Document Type

Thesis

Degree Type

MA

Committee Chair

Ronald Althouse

Abstract

In this paper, I am providing a descriptive analysis of the children on the rolls of the West Virginia Children’s Health Insurance Program (WV CHIP). The research was guided by four questions: (1) Who are the children from West Virginia that are on the rolls of WV CHIP? (2) What are the reasons why children disenroll from the program? (3) Where do the children come from before WV CHIP and where did the children go to after WV CHIP? (4) What does their enrollment history look like while on WV CHIP? The sample is a total number (N=55,876) of the population who attempted or already had access to the WV CHIP system from the dates of January 01, 2001 to December 31, 2002. The (N=55,876) individuals were broken down into four categories for a better description of their enrollment history. These individuals had their enrollment history recorded from 01/2001 until 12/2002. The overall findings show that the RAPIDS system helps facilitate WV CHIP and Medicaid in referrals to each other. WV CHIP has an effective outreach that is able to attract new clientele that were not previously enrolled in a public health program. WV CHIP has a problem retaining a proportion of their population. Forty-eight percent disenrolled at or before their 12th month of redetermination. This finding also shows WV CHIP has a problem sustaining long-term health care population (2 years or longer). WV CHIP has a disenrollment rate of 14 percent when it is time for the client to re-enroll. WV CHIP shows that 22 percent of the population has been disenrolled at least one or more times during their enrollment history.

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