Florida
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New Federal CHIP Law Will Protect Florida’s Children
The Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP) is extremely important to Florida as it helps about 345,000 Florida children get the health care they need to support their healthy development and succeed in school. CHIP has also worked hand-in-hand with Medicaid to reduce Florida’s child uninsured rate to an all time low of 6.2 percent in…
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What Does New Federal CHIP Law Mean for Children’s Health Insurance in Florida?
Overview After much delay, Congress recently passed two extensions of the Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP) which funds coverage for approximately 345,000 children in Florida. CHIP covers children in families with incomes over the poverty line that are not eligible for Medicaid but can’t afford private insurance. CHIP is a federal-state matching program and states…
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Assessing Florida’s Medicaid Reform
Over the past decade, Georgetown University researchers have studied Florida’s Medicaid program with funding from the Jessie Ball DuPont Fund, the Winter Park Health Foundation and other Florida-based funding partners. Our studies have looked into Florida’s Medicaid pilot waiver launched in 2006, the current Medicaid waiver launched in 2013 and the debate in Florida over…
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Why Projecting When States Will Run Out of CHIP Funds is a Moving Target
This week we released a new report on the consequences of delayed Congressional action on the Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP). Federal funding for CHIP expired 27 days ago, an unprecedented lapse in CHIP’s 20-year history. Some policymakers have reasoned that the situation is not urgent because all states have some unspent funds available from…
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What Are the Consequences of Congressional Delay on CHIP?
Funding for the Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP) expired nearly a month ago and Congress still has not passed legislation to extend funding. Researchers at Georgetown University’s Center for Children and Families took a look at the consequences of the delay in CHIP funding. “This delay in funding CHIP is really unchartered territory and puts…
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Nationwide Rate of Uninsured Children Reaches Historic Low
Nationwide 95.5 percent of children had health insurance in 2016, up from 95.2 percent the previous year—and up from 92.9 percent in 2013, the year before the ACA was fully implemented. While relatively few children rely on the ACA’s Marketplace for insurance, many gained coverage in Medicaid or CHIP when their parents signed up for…
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Section 1115 Medicaid Waiver Comments
Georgetown University’s Center for Children and Families contributes an independent perspective to the public dialogue on the future of Medicaid through the lens of children and their families.
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Florida Makes Significant Progress on Children’s Health Coverage But It is at Risk
Our latest brief looks how Florida has cut its rate of uninsured children by more than half since 2009. The rate dropped from 14.8 percent to 6.2 percent in 2016, an all-time low. In raw numbers, that means the state went from having 601,000 uninsured kids to 257,000. Much of that progress can be attributed…
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State CHIP Snapshots
The Role of CHIP in Children’s Coverage In 2016 the children’s health insurance coverage rate in the United States dropped to just above 95 percent, an impressive achievement. Key to this success is the Children’s Health Insurance Program, which provides coverage to children who do not qualify for Medicaid but whose families cannot otherwise afford…
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Medicaid: The Port in a Storm for Children and Families
As Harvey and Irma remind us, natural disasters happen. And when they do, they threaten the health of children and families and the ability of providers to deliver needed services. It takes time for displaced families, providers, and communities to get back on their feet. It also takes resources. While federal Medicaid funds are always…
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Law Firm Investigating Florida Children’s Insurance Scandal
Insurance Business America By Ryan Smith The investigation is being undertaken by the Pomerantz Law Firm on behalf of investors in UnitedHealth Group. The law firm is examining the insurer after a CNN.com report alleged that state health officials in Florida removed thousands of sick children from Children’s Medical Services (CMS) – a part of…
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Pediatricians Say Florida Hurt Sick Kids To Help Big GOP Donors
CNN Health By Elizabeth Cohen and Katherine Grise Like nearly half of all children in Florida, LJ is on Medicaid, which has several types of insurance plans. The state had switched LJ to a new plan, and his surgeons didn’t take it. … “These are the sickest and most vulnerable kids, and (changing their insurance)…
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Trading Kids’ Health for Political Favors?
MedPage Today Pediatricians in Florida and health experts elsewhere questioned whether politics played a role in the switching of 13,000 high-risk children from the state’s comprehensive Medicaid program to lesser plans that many physician don’t accept, CNN reported. … “These are the sickest and most vulnerable kids, and (changing their insurance) can mean life or death for…
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INTERACTIVE MAPS: Children Covered by Medicaid and CHIP by county, state or congressional district.
These maps show how many children are covered by Medicaid in each county and congressional district. Visit these links to view the maps, and to download handouts on your state’s coverage data: Percent of Children Covered by Medicaid/CHIP (congressional district) Percent of Children Covered by Medicaid/CHIP (county) Visit CCF’s State Resource Center for state-level data on health…
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Gains in Children’s Health Coverage at Risk if Bump in Funding Eliminated
Those of you at our annual conference in July are already familiar with the bump dance craze that took the world by storm in the summer of 1975. But ICYMI, there’s a new bump that’s all the rage these days – the increase in federal funding for CHIP. Starting in fiscal year 2016, states received…
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New Florida Legal Services Report Examines Financial Challenges to Health Care System
By Miriam Harmatz, Florida Legal Services My colleague, Charlotte Cassel, and I spend a lot of time explaining changes to Florida’s major supplemental payment program, the Low Income Pool (LIP) and how those changes impact individual counties. FLS Reports. Before we started this endeavor, I pulled out notes from training by iconic poverty and health…
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How One Florida Newspaper Went Beyond Reporting to Spur Original Research
(This blog was originally published by the USC Annenberg Center for Health Journalism.) By Maggie Clark, Sarasota Herald Tribune Some of the best ideas are the ones that initially sound the craziest. I was about four months in on my reporting on Florida’s Medicaid managed care program, and I was hitting a wall. I’d been…
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Advocates in Arizona and Florida Win Bulldog of Year Awards for Opening Doors to Coverage for Kids
Connecting with children’s advocates and health policy experts from across the country is the highlight of our annual conference for me. I am always inspired by the “doggedness” of our state partners to make children’s lives better. A few years ago, we started a tradition of opening the conference by presenting the “Bulldog of the…
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Florida Kids Face Dental Crisis
Herald-Tribune By: Maggie Clark Florida is ranked 50 out of 51 states in the number of children that are getting the necessary and preventive dental care services, even though across the nations these numbers have been going up for most sates. Therefore, children are facing lots of dental problems, especially those coming from low-income families.…
