Medicaid & CHIP: Reports for Monitoring Children’s Health Care Services Need Improvement

April 15, 2011 Current reporting requirements regarding children’s health services provided through Medicaid or state Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP) plans lack sufficient detail to determine if children referred to treatment ever receive the services. Researchers from the U.S. Government Accountability Office reviewed fiscal year 2008 CMS 416 reports and CHIP annual reports, and found among other problems, that 12 states made errors on their CMS 416 reports; in 10 states the errors were large enough to overstate the extent that children received well child checkups. Download the Report . . .