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Medicaid Eligibility, Enrollment, and Retention Policies: Findings from a Survey of Juvenile Justice and Medicaid Policies Affecting Children in the Juvenile Justice System

"The National Academy for State Health Policy (NASHP) fielded two surveys about health care and Medicaid policies for youth in the juvenile justice system. This paper is the second of three issue briefs containing survey findings. In this paper, we report survey findings relating Medicaid enrollment and retention policies for youth involved in the juvenile justice system and provide examples of promising practices used by state Medicaid and juvenile justice agencies."

Available online

http://www.nashp.org/

Author(s)

Sarabeth Zemel and Neva Kaye

Date

December 2009

Publisher

National Academy for State Health Policy