| Date | Event |
| June 1999 | Hawaii Covering Kids project launched with three-year grant from Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. Process Simplification Task Force formed. |
| June 2000 | ACLU lawsuit. Subsequently, state begins accepting self-declaration of income, assets, Social Security number, and birth date for applicants. |
| July 2000 | Asset test for children and youths completely phased out. |
| November 2000 | Hawaii Covering Kids Training and Public Education Task Force finishes producing Med-QUEST videos: (1) Hawai‘i’s Medicaid Programs; and (2) Completing the Med-QUEST Application. |
| October 2002 | Med-QUEST publishes simplified application designed by Hawaii Covering Kids Application Simplification Workgroup. |
| April 2003 | Hawaii Covering Kids Training and Public Education Task Force finishes updating the video on completing Med-QUEST’s application. |
| October 2003 | Hawaii Covering Kids Application Simplification Workgroup coordinated with CMS and Med-QUEST to accept self-declaration of pregnancy. |
| November 2003 | Hawaii Covering Kids Training and Public Education Task Force finishes writing curriculum for community training workshops and begins sponsoring sessions for outreach workers. |
| January 2004 | Med-QUEST publishes separate children and pregnant women application designed by Hawaii Covering Kids Application Simplification Workgroup. It eliminates unnecessary questions for these populations and does not require absent parent information. |
| June 2004 | Med-QUEST publishes pre-populated renewal forms designed by Hawaii Covering Kids Renewal Simplification Workgroup. Passive renewals begin for cases with children. |
| February 2005 | State begins processing complete pregnant women applications within five business days. |
| January 2006 | Hawaii Covering Kids Process Simplification Task Force wrote Med-QUEST’s interpreter procedures. |
| March 2006-April 2008 | Hawaii Covering Kids Process Simplification Task Force organized the state’s effort to implement federal government’s new citizenship, alien status, and photo identification requirements. The task force’s goals were: (1) Retain all eligible people enrolled in Med-QUEST’s programs without requiring them to go on scavenger hunts; and (2) Enroll all eligible applicants in Med-QUEST’s programs through an efficient process. |
| January 2008 | Hawaii Covering Kids Process Simplification Task Force wrote recommendations for Med-QUEST’s simplified eligibility processes to comply with CMS’s Payment Error Rate Management program. |
| May-December 2009 | Hawaii Covering Kids Process Simplification Task Force wrote approval, pending, denial, and closure notices that are easy for customers to read and comply with Hawaii Administrative Rules. Also, notices were coded according to HAWI system format. Application Simplification Work Group completed its task 12/15/09. Next step is Med-QUEST implementation. |
| March-May 2011 | Hawaii Covering Kids worked with the Hawai‘i Primary Care Association and state legislators to continue passive renewals for cases with children. |
| September-November 2011 | Hawaii Covering Kids organized Newborns Workgroup meetings to get babies added to mother’s QUEST and QExA cases within 30 days of birth. |
