Technical Appendix C: Indiana Survey Methods

The Indiana Health Insurance and Access for Children with Special Health Care Needs (CSHCN) Study was a study of children who met the Child and Adolescent Health Measurement Initiative CSHCN screener enrolling in the Indiana Hoosier Healthwise program. The Hoosier Healthwise program includes Indiana’s Medicaid and combination State Children’s Health Insurance Program (SCHIP), which consists of a Medicaid expansion program and a separate, free-standing SCHIP. The Indiana results reported in the article by Szilagyi et al1 on CSHCN in this issue represent cross-sectional data from only new enrollees in the SCHIP (both the Medicaid expansion and the separate program). Families of enrollees were interviewed near the time of program entry. Telephone interviews were conducted with the adult in each household that was most familiar with the selected new enrollee’s health and health care experiences. Indiana’s SCHIP, consisting of a Medicaid expansion program and a separate state program, was implemented in 2 phases. The first phase, the SCHIP Medicaid expansion, began in 1998 and expanded coverage for …