Who Are We?
The National Center on Financing for CSHCN was created from a cooperative
agreement between the Maternal and Child Health Bureau (MCHB) and the Institute
for Child Health Policy at the University of Florida. The Institute’s team works
in partnership with Dr. Peter Szilaygi and colleagues at the University of
Rochester, Dr. Ruth Stein, a national expert in the development and use of
strategies to identify CSHCN, and Conni Wells, Executive Director of the Florida
Institute for Family Involvement (FIFI).
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purpose of this four year project is to work in support of the Maternal and
Child Health Bureau to meet its Children with Special Health Care Needs (CSHCN)
National Agenda performance outcome that “all families of CSHCN will have
adequate private and/or public insurance to pay for the services they need.” The
work of the cooperative agreement will be multi-faceted and will (1) overcome
the gaps in knowledge about CSHCN’s health care use and charges, (2) assess the
extent to which CSHCN are receiving the health care services they need and the
degree to which reimbursement is adequate to meet those needs, (3) identify
trends in and developing recommendations for financing strategies, and (4)
disseminate this information to families, health care providers, public and
private health plans, and policy makers.
To learn more about the project team, please visit the following web sites
NCFCSHCN - University of Florida
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The National Center on Financing for CSHCN is located at the Institute for
Child Health Policy at the University of Florida in Gainesville, Florida.
The Center receives funding from a cooperative agreement between the
Maternal and Child Health Bureau (MCHB), HRSA, DHHS and the University of
Florida (#1 U93 MC 00179).
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