ED Medicaid Support
For patients and families
In plain language
An automatic summary of structured registry data. It is an orientation aid, not a substitute for the official protocol or a physician assessment.
- What is being studied
- The protocol lists: Navigation through financial systems and linkage to resources.
- Who it may be relevant to
- Registry conditions: Pediatric Uninsured Emergency Visits, Emergencies. Basic parameters: from 18 years · All.
- What needs checking
- Age, condition and sex are only basic indicators. Prior treatment, laboratory values and other mandatory requirements appear in the eligibility criteria below.
- Where it takes place
- Center list to be confirmed — check the primary protocol.
- Next step
- Save the trial, show it to the treating physician, and confirm current recruitment with the study center. Costs, documents and travel →
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Official title
Maintaining Continuous Medicaid Coverage for Eligible Children in New Jersey
Overview
The study introduces a bedside intervention assisting families with the enrollment or re-enrollment process through patient direct contact with NJFamily Care and financial departments, using an emergency department (ED)-based navigator tool. The primary objective is to identify the barriers contributing to the lack of insurance coverage through NJ Family Care coverage using a brief survey with the parents of children who are treated in the ED and identified as uninsured, and to study the effect of a bedside intervention designed to assist families with the enrollment or re-enrollment process.
Interventions
- Other Navigation through financial systems and linkage to resources
Navigation through financial systems and linkage to resources to connect families and ultimately help them gain access to insurance for the pediatric patient.
Primary outcome measures
- Barriers to medicaid enrollment or reenrollment [Time frame: Survey is completed upon enrollment]
- Rate of Successful Medicaid Enrollment or Re-enrollment Approval [Time frame: Assessed via participant follow-up call or review of the electronic health record at 90 days post-intervention.]
Secondary outcome measures (1)
- Enrollment in Temporary Insurance Coverage [Time frame: Assessed via participant follow-up within 10 days (+/- 5 days) post-intervention and/or chart review.]
Eligibility criteria
Inclusion criteria
- Parent/guardian/ legal authorized representative (age 18 years or older) with children aged: 1 month to 17 years of age who obtain care in the pediatric emergency department
- Child Uninsured (ie, Charity Care, HUMC Charity Care, Pending Medicaid, Self-Pay)
- Interested in applying or receiving assistance with NJfamilycare
- Not pending private insurance coverage
- Primary language of the parent or guardian is identified as English
- Pediatric patient lives in New Jersey
Exclusion criteria
- Parent/guardian/legal authorized representative with children aged: less than 1 month and greater than 17 years old Insured pediatric patient Parent/ Guardian/Legal Authorized Representative not present Parent/ Guardian/Legal Authorized Representative age 17 years or younger Primary language not identified as English Patients visiting the Emergency Department related to Motor Vehicle Accidents Already participated in this study
Criteria are shown verbatim from the registry (in English). Final eligibility is always assessed by the study center.
Healthy volunteers: Yes
Study design
- Allocation
- N/A
- Model
- Single group
- Masking
- Open label
- Primary purpose
- Health services research
Study locations
Center list to be confirmed — check the primary protocol.
Identifiers
NCT: NCT07594782 · Pro2026-0127