Alabama to be part of national initiative to insure uninsured children


Only Eight states have been selected to participate in a new 4 year 15 million dollar initiative. The grant initiative aims to enroll more children and retain eligible children in Medicaid as well as ALLKids.

The PEAK project will be lead by the Alabama department of public health and the Alabama Medicaid agency. PEAK is an acronym for Perfecting Enrollment for Alabama’s kids. The funding and support for the grant is provided by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation.
Gov. Bob Riley says that he is committed to an increase in enrollment of medical children in the ALL Kids program as well as Medicaid. He wants to see all Alabama’s children receive the proper health coverage, he says.

The times were challenging and this grant is an opportunity to reach more uninsured children in Alabama by thinking creatively. In the U.S. 8.7 mn children are uninsured inspite of most of them being eligible for public health insurance. In Alabama the number of uninsured children is about seventy eight thousand. Sixty five percent of these are eligible for low cost/free health insurance.

Wisconsin, Virginia, Utah, New York, Massachusetts, Lousiana and Illinois are also participating in the “Maximizing Enrollment For eKids” program.


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