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Model Application Template for the State Children‟s Health Insurance Program

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Section 9. Strategic Objectives and Performance Goals and Plan Administration (Section 2107)

9.1. Describe strategic objectives for increasing the extent of creditable health coverage among targeted low-income children and other low-income children: (Section 2107(a)(2)) (42CFR 457.710(b))

Objective Two: Increase the number of children who have access to health care. Objective Three: Appropriate use of medications for children diagnosed with asthma. Objective Four: Children participating in the Medicaid Expansion and hawk-i will have access to primary care practitioners.

9.2. Specify one or more performance goals for each strategic objective identified: (Section 2107(a)(3)) (42CFR 457.710(c))

Objective One: Increase the health status of children in Iowa. Medicaid Expansion (M-CHIP) health status goals: Health status and health care system measures will show acceptable incremental improvements for the following outcome measurements: Healthy and Well Kids in Iowa (hawk-i) (S-CHIP): Health status and health care system measures will show acceptable incremental improvements for the following outcome measurements: 1. Fifty percent of the children ages zero to 15 months enrolled in the hawk-i program will have at least one well-child visit. 2. Eighty percent of the children ages three, four, five and six years old enrolled in the hawk-i program will have well-child visits. 3. Send each family a health assessment questionnaire to complete for one child in the household. (Refer to Attachment 8).

Objective Two: Increase the number of children who have access to health care. Medicaid Expansion (M-CHIP) Enroll approximately 17,300 total children in the Medicaid