Modern Healthcare
By: Shelby Livingston
As Sept. 30 approaches, pediatric providers are grappling with the potential loss of funding for two programs responsible for huge gains in health insurance coverage for children.
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The 36 states that maintain separate CHIP programs are not mandated to continue them, however. “They would start shutting down those programs or phasing them out,” said Tricia Brooks, a senior fellow at Georgetown University’s Center for Children and Families and former CHIP director in New Hampshire.
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