Child Support: All children in the program are receiving regular, reliable child support payments on a monthly basis from their parent(s) and the children have healthcare coverage. Medicaid Recovery: Medicaid avoids paying for, or is reimbursed for, medical expenses billed to Medicaid as measured by cost avoidance estimates and collection totals.
Cost effectiveness IV-D program (federal)
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Measure Definition
Cost effectivness for the IV-D child support program is a comparison of the dollars collected by the child support program as compared to the child support program expenditures.
This is a federal measure calculated annually on September 30th.
Story Behind the Curve
Cost effectiveness of the IV-D program is a comparison of the dollars collected compared to the dollars expended to operate the child support program. Ideally, collections would increase while expenses would decrease; however, there is a nationwide trend where child support cases and collections are trending downward. In addition, expenses are increasing due to an increase in personnel services costs and technology costs as ORS modernizes it's information system. This modernization effort will be underway for a number of years, so it is feasible the cost effectiveness number may continue to decline until it stabilizes.
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