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Linking Medicaid and Child Welfare Data to Identify High Service Users in Child Welfare<\/h2>\n \n \n \n \n \n \n <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n
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Data sharing across Medicaid and child welfare is rare, despite the fact that both systems play important roles in providing services for youth in foster care. By linking child welfare and Medicaid data, a new, more comprehensive perspective on service use is gained that can improve service delivery and outcomes for youth in care.\u00a0Casey Family Programs<\/strong> and Mathematica Policy Research, Inc.<\/strong> partnered to take this on.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n <\/div>\n\n

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The challenge<\/h2>\n <\/div>\n\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n
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Two sites participated in a study to link child welfare and Medicaid data to identify high service users. The study was based on a sample of children in foster care during a five year period in each state.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n <\/div>\n\n

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Tennessee<\/h3>\n

Descriptive and latent class analysis sample:\u00a0<\/strong>Sample includes children who enter out-of-home care between July 1, 2011, and December 31, 2015. (N=21,672)<\/p>\n

Predictive analysis sample:\u00a0<\/strong>Sample includes children who enter out-of-home care between July 1, 2012, and January 31, 2014. (N=12,056)<\/p>\n

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Tri-County Area in Florida<\/h3>\n

Descriptive and latent class analysis sample:<\/strong> Sample includes children who enter out-of-home care between September 1, 2013, and December 31, 2015. (N=6,695)<\/p>\n

Predictive analysis sample: <\/strong>Sample includes children who enter out-of-home care between July 1, 2012, and January 1, 2014. (N=8,290)<\/p>\n

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Superutilization<\/h2>\n

Superutilization of services was measured across the data sources on the following dimensions:<\/p>\n

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