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• County Departments of Human Services
• Certified Application Assitance Sites and Presumptive Eligibility Sites, updated August 6, 2010
• How to Become a Certified Application Assistance Site

Income Guidelines


• Income Guidelines for Family Medicaid and CHP+ (Effective April 1, 2010-present)

  Citizenship and Identity Verification for Medicaid Applicants


• The Deficit Reduction Act of 2005: Citizenship and Identity Verification for Medicaid Applicants in Colorado- CKF, Updated July 2008
• Implementation in Colorado – Guidance from the Department of Health Care Policy and Financing
• Final Medicaid Citizenship and identity Rules: Implemented January 1, 2008
• Agency Letter HCPF 07-022: Final Medicaid Citizenship and identity Rules: December 31, 2007
• Affidavit to Establish Identity for Children Under 16
• Citizenship and Identity Documentation Received Form
• Information and application for sites that want to be certified to verify documents
• Medicaid Citizenship Documentation Requirement- Special Series from the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities
• Impact of the Federal Deficit Reduction Act of 2005 on Colorado Medicaid Enrollment: Findings from the Eligibility Technician Survey
• Impact of the Federal Deficit Reduction Act of 2005 on Colorado Medicaid Enrollment: Findings from the Outreach and Enrollment Worker Survey
• Impact of the Federal Deficit Reduction Act of 2005: Community Health Center Specific Findings from the Outreach and Enrollment Worker Survey

Getting Citizenship or Identity Documents
• How to Get Citizenship or Identity Documents
• Getting Birth Certificates From Out of State
• Colorado Citizens ID Collaborative Project
• Revised List of Acceptable Documents for Requesting a Birth Certificate in Colorado, June 2008

Presumptive Eligibility

• Medicaid Presumptive Eligibility Procedure Manual, February 2008
• Presumptive Eligibility Q&A for PE Sites, February 2008

Appeals Process

• Medicaid Adminstrative Hearings--Non-Lawyers Guide, Colorado Legal Servcies
• One pager on CHP+ Appeals, CKF 2008

Immigrants and Public Benefits

• Immigrant Status and Eligibility for Medicaid and CHP+, CKF 2005
• Documents Most Commonly Used to Show “Qualified” Immigrant Status
• Immigration Codes for Affidavits of Support
• Primer on Issues Relating to Immigrants and Public Benefits, National Immigration Law Center (NILC)
  
  
  Getting Care
  
• CHP+ Health Plan Comparison Chart by County
• Medicaid Health Plan Comparison Chart
• Connecting Care and Health in Colorado: A Guide to Services for the Uninsured (Colorado Consumer Health initiative)
• List of Community Health Centers
• Colorado Non-Profit Dental Clinics
• Kaiser Connections provides low-cost health coverage to people in the Denver/Boulder area who are age 34 and younger
  
  
  Resource Sharing
  Listed below are fact sheets, forms, and other materials developed by Community Based Organizations that might be useful to other sites.
• Self Employment Log -An example for families of what they can develop to maintain their own information related to self-employment income and expenses. Self- employment income is self-declared for Medicaid and CHP+ applicants so families do not need to submit this form with their application. It's meant to be a tool to help families get organized.
• Sample Stamp for Verifying DRA Documents -First time Medicaid applicants and renewing CHP+ clients must either submit original documents (NOT recommended) or have their documents verified by a document verification site. This stamp serves as a model for sites that want to develop their own stamp to streamline the process of verifying documents.
  
• Case Summary Form - Provides a place to consolidate all case information including demographics, PE and Physician information, referrals, and income.
  

• Other States Medicaid Eligibility Processes- CKF 2003
• Best Practices in CHP+ Administration- CKF 2004
• Importance of CHP+ Retention- CKF 2003

• Losing Ground: The CHP+ Enrollment Freeze and CKF’s Count of Kids –CKF 2005
• Enrollment Caps for SCHIP: Other States’ Experiences CKF 2004

• Overview of the five proposals

• Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services - Federal agency that oversees the federal Medicaid program and State Child Health Insurance Programs
• Children's Health Matters - Catholic Charities' program to help facilitate enrollment into Medicaid and SCHIP programs
• Colorado Center on Law and Policy  – Colorado Center on Law and Policy (CCLP) focuses primarily on issues affecting poor and working poor families and individuals with a major emphasis on economic self-sufficiency and access to health care
• Colorado Children’s Campaign – Colorado Children’s Campaign acts as a bi-partisan voice for children from the state capitol to communities across the state, focusing on expanding access to quality healthcare, early childhood experiences and K-12 education.
• Colorado Health Institute - The Colorado Health Institute (CHI) serves as a comprehensive source of health data resources and policy analysis for policymakers, health planners, the business and nonprofit communities, advocacy and consumer groups, health care providers, foundations, and the media.
• Colorado Consumer Health Initiative – Colorado Consumer Health Initiative (CCHI) is a consensus-based membership organization that acts as a unified representative of its members and partners at the legislature and in the community to influence and shape effective health care policy to ensure barrier-free access to quality health care for all Coloradans.
• Cover the Uninsured - The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation's national week of action to increase public awareness about the growing population of uninsured people
• Families USA - A national nonprofit, non-partisan organization dedicated to the achievement of high-quality, affordable health care for all Americans
• Kaiser State Health Facts Online - Comprehensive and comparative health facts, which include data on uninsured rates, Medicaid and CHP+ enrollment numbers and eligibility facts
• The Commonwealth Fund - A private foundation that supports independent research on health and social issues and makes grants to improve health care practice and policy