| 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. |
| June 2002 | Hawaii Covering Kids continues with four-year grant from RWJF and local matching funds. |
| 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 | State begins accepting 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 the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services Payment Error Rate Management program. |
