Contact: Andrea Stewart
Email: astewart@dhhs.state.nh.us
This study evaluated a variety of health care measures to compare children enrolled in New Hampshire Medicaid (excluding severely disabled children), NH CHIP (State Children’s Health Insurance Program), and children enrolled in commercial health insurance plans in New Hampshire for state fiscal year (SFY) 2010. The study updates the SFY2009 report on New Hampshire children’s health insurance incorporating New Hampshire Medicaid data and the Comprehensive Health Care Information System (NH CHIS) commercial healthcare claims database. Onpoint Health Data used New Hampshire Medicaid and NH CHIS commercial administrative eligibility and claims data from services incurred in SFY2010 to study the following for New Hampshire children aged 0–18:
• Plan enrollment and disenrollment
• Health status
• Access to primary care practitioners
• Well-child visits
• Effectiveness of care management
• Prevalence of and utilization for mental health disorders
• Utilization and payments
• Household poverty level