Managing Medicaid Take-Up: Strategies, Efforts, and Evaluation: The Complexity of Simplifying the Medicaid Application Process

This report summarizes a study supported by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation examining how 18 states simplified the Medicaid eligibility process. Study Highlights: The type & extent of Medicaid application simplification measures, times which simplification occured, contact types varied to assist Medicaid eligible individuals with the application, Medicaid budget cuts are likely to negatively impact the application process.