Publications

Coverage Initatives

• CHIP/UPP Affordability Exception
• New CHIP/UPP Waiver Position Paper (updated 7/29/08)
• Reinsurance: A Tool to Manage Risk and Stabilize the Private Market (6/4/08)
• 2008 Road Map to Success: Recommendations for Health System Reform (updated 4/28/08)
• HB133 Health System Reform (updated 2/12/08)
• HB364 Health Coverage Promotion (Rep. Holdaway) (updated 2/22/08)
• HB355 Cigarette Tax Increase & Appropriations (Rep. P. Ray)
• Protect Uninsurable Utahns: Oppose HB491 (Rep. Hutchings) (updated 2/17/08)
• Guiding Principles of Health Care Reform
  
• Position Paper on Health Savings Accounts

Utah Business Group on Health (UBGH)

• UBGH Factsheet
• Small Business Survey Findings, 2006

Medicaid

• SB197 Preferred Drug List Revisions (4/16/08)
• Restore Medicaid Dental Services with Ongoing Funds (updated 2/17/08)
• Medical Homes for Medicaid: Increasing Quality & Containing Costs (updated 5/15/08)
• Leveraging Medicaid to make Coverage Affordable for Low-Income Utahns (updated: 12-28-07)
• Let Medicaid Provide Eyeglasses with Allocated Funds for the Rest of FY08 (updated: 12-27-07)
• Repeal Citizenship Verification Requirements (updated: 4-9-07)
• HB437 Limitation on Government Benefits to 'Aliens' Unlawfully present (updated: 2-23-07)
• Medicaid Vision Services Fact Sheet : A Visionary Solution (updated: 2-23-07)
• Reopen CHIP: Level the Playing Field for Utah's Children (updated: 2-16-07)
• Medicaid Cost Containment Navigator
• Utah Medicaid Overview & Challenges for 2006
• SB 42 Preferred Prescription Drug List: PDL Provides Quality & Cost Effective Care
  (updated 2-16-07)
• Bulk Purchasing of Pharmaceuticals in Utah Medicaid
  

CHIP

• CHIP/UPP Affordability Exception
• New CHIP/UPP Waiver Position Paper (updated 7/29/08)
• Support HB326: CHIP Open Enrollment (updated 2/17/08)
• State Childrens Health Insurance Fact Sheet (SCHIP)
• SCHIP Reauthorization Talking Points

Utah Quality Watch

• Multicultural Health Network Feedback on United Way Health Reform Proposal (11/19/07)
• Community-Based Self-Sufficiency Minigrants (Rep. J. Seelig) (updated 8/6/08)
• SB81: High Price to Pay to Send a Strong Message (Sen. Hickman) (2/15/08)
• Intergrating Quality Into Utah's Health System Reforms (11/07)
• Medicaid Citizenship Verification: A To-Do List for Utah (4//07)

Past UHPP Projects

• Utah Health Cooperative
• Utah Health Cooperative Fact Sheet
• Health Partnership Act