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Item Lessons from the Implementation of the Maryland Kids First Act(The Hilltop Institute, 2012-10) Spicer, Laura; Idala, David; John, Jamie; Roddy, TriciaThis issue brief highlights key findings from Hilltop’s study that evaluated the Kids First outreach initiative. The overarching goal of the study was to evaluate the implementation of Kids First and how well the state achieved its goal of identifying and enrolling uninsured children who are eligible for Medicaid or the Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP) in order to glean lessons for not only Maryland, but also other states. This brief describes the factors that facilitated Kids First, as well as the key challenges that Maryland faced as it implemented the initiative.Item Overcoming Interagency Data‐Sharing Barriers: Lessons from the Maryland Kids First Act(The Hilltop Institute, 2011-01) Idala, David A.; Somerville, Martha H.; Spicer, Laura A.; Boddie‐Willis, Cynthia L.; John, Jamie L.; Roddy, TriciaThis issue brief describes interagency data-sharing barriers that researchers and state officials encountered as they implemented and evaluated the Maryland Kids First Act outreach initiative. The brief provides an overview of strategies used to identify uninsured children who are eligible for public insurance programs; an update on Maryland’s tax-based outreach program, including a description of the interagency data-sharing barriers encountered and their resolution; a discussion of new data-sharing and outreach opportunities outlined in the Affordable Care Act (ACA); and a discussion of lessons for other states.Item Using Information from Income Tax Forms to Target Medicaid and CHIP Outreach: Preliminary Results of the Maryland Kids First Act(The Hilltop Institute, 2009-09) Idala, David; Roddy, Tricia; Milligan, Charles; Sommers, Anna; Boddie‐Willis, Cynthia; Clark, Angela; Dorn, StanThe Maryland Kids First Act was signed into law in May 2008. It directed the Maryland Department of Health and Mental Hygiene (DHMH) to use the state’s personal income tax system to target outreach efforts to children who might be eligible for Medicaid or CHIP (in Maryland, known as the Maryland Children’s Health Program, or MCHP). To study whether this outreach strategy is effective, the State Health Access Reform Evaluation (SHARE) Program, a national program of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, commissioned DHMH and its partner, The Hilltop Institute, to evaluate the outreach effort. Hilltop researchers performed the study on behalf of DHMH. The brief highlights the findings and identifies 10 lessons learned from the experience so far, addressing issues such as data-sharing, health literacy, inclusion/exclusion criteria, tracking mechanisms, and the circumstances under which legislation is necessary in order to implement tax-based outreach.