The Impact of Tobacco Smoke Exposure on Childhood Asthma in a Medicaid Managed Care Plan.

Background: Tobacco smoke exposure increases breathing problems of children. Texas Children's Health Plan is a Managed Medicaid and Children's Health Insurance Program (CHIP) managed care provider. The aim of this study is to determine associations among tobacco smoke exposure, asthma prevalence, and asthma health-care utilization.

Quality improvement for medicaid members of a commercial health plan: impact on racial/ethnic differences.

Objective: To describe one commercial Medicaid Managed Care (MMC) health plan's quality improvement (QI) program that achieved high varicella immunization rates among members of an ethnically diverse population in California.

Design: Retrospective study using administrative data.

Patients: Blue Cross of California Medicaid enrolled children who turned two years old during each calendar year of the study.