is a federal-state partnership program that provides health coverage options for children whose families earn too much to qualify for Medicaid but too little to afford marketplace or other coverage. To learn more about how CHIP serves children in each state, read the State CHIP Snapshots.
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Are States Ready to Implement HR 1 and Medicaid Work Reporting Requirements?
Key Findings Introduction On July 4, 2025, President Trump signed into law HR 1 (P.L. 119-21), the massive budget reconciliation bill that cuts more than $1 trillion from Medicaid and Marketplace health coverage. The law strips coverage from many lawfully residing immigrants, ties the hands of states to raise revenue to cover the state share…
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Trump Administration Blocks States from Keeping Babies and Toddlers Connected to Health Coverage
On Sunday, the Administrator of the federal Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), Dr. Mehmet Oz, appeared on Face the Nation. He was pressed repeatedly on Medicaid cuts by Host Margaret Brennan and responded by emphasizing the need for Medicaid to protect young children, paraphrasing the late Senator Hubert Humphrey in noting that any…
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New CHIP Protections are In Effect Now Despite Congressional Efforts to Eliminate Them
During the legislative process, most of the talk was about Medicaid cuts, but we highlighted that the Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP) would not be spared if the budget reconciliation bill (HR 1) placed a moratorium on all provisions of the Eligibility and Enrollment Rule (E&E rule) finalized in April 2024. Thankfully, due to likely…
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Medicaid, CHIP, and Affordable Care Act Marketplace Cuts and Other Health Provisions in the Budget Reconciliation Law, Explained
Editor’s Note: this brief was updated on August 13, 2025 to reflect additional Congressional Budget Office coverage estimates of the reconciliation law issued on August 11, 2025 In partnership with On July 4, 2025, President Trump signed the Congressional Republican budget reconciliation bill into law (H.R. 1 or P.L. 119-21 which was previously entitled the…
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New FAQs from CMS on School-Based Health Services
As a follow-up to requirements under the 2022 Bipartisan Safer Communities Act that required the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) to set up a technical assistance center and provide guidance to support the delivery of services to students covered by Medicaid and CHIP in school-based settings, CMS recently added 30 additional questions to…