January 10, 2011: SHARE grantee David Idala has released a new issue brief detailing findings from his SHARE-funded study of Maryland’s Kids First Act of 2009.
The brief, titled, “Overcoming Interagency Data-Sharing Barriers: Lessons from the Maryland Kids First Act,” details Maryland’s experience implementing the 2009 law, which allows the state to use income tax information to identify uninsured children who are eligible for Medicaid/CHIP. The brief focuses in particular on the data-sharing issues that arose between Maryland’s Medicaid and tax agencies during implementation, exploring how these issues were resolved and offering a series of lessons learned about state-specific legal barriers to data-sharing.
Idala and his co-authors also discuss the new tax-based outreach opportunities that exist under the Affordable Care Act (ACA), which makes federal tax return information available for use in state Medicaid/CHIP outreach.
Read the new brief from David Idala and his research team at The Hilltop Institute.