Game planfor Chip passage
Game planfor Chip passage
Game planfor Chip passage
Today, Arizona “officially” joined the rest of the country as CMS approved its plan to re-open its CHIP plan. As Say Ahhh! readers know, new enrollment in Arizona’s CHIP plan (KidsCare) was frozen for several years. Now children living in all 50 states and DC will have the opportunity to sign up for CHIP coverage. […]
medicaid and chip_eligibility by state
building on success from chip
As the Kaiser Family Foundation (KFF) recently explained, state Medicaid and CHIP programs are required to cover at-home COVID-19 rapid tests, without cost-sharing, until at least one year after the end of the COVID-19 public health emergency. However, there seems to be substantial variation across state Medicaid and CHIP programs in how they actually cover […]
Texas ChipBook
By Joe Touschner Months ago, CMS clarified that those who signed up for a qualified health plan by the end of open enrollment would not face a tax penalty for lacking coverage in early 2014, even if their plans were not effective until May 1. This was necessary since the mandate exemption for a short […]
While many of us were eagerly watching the House CHIP hearing last week, the House Energy and Commerce and Senate Finance Committees released the full set of governors responses to the summer Congressional inquiry on CHIP. Naturally, we were eager to see what they had to say! We read through the 39 letters intently to […]
The Trump Administration has proposed to change how the Census Bureau’s Official Poverty Measure (OPM) is adjusted annually for inflation. While this sounds like a highly technical change, it would do considerable harm. That is because the OPM is used to set the federal poverty line, which in turn is used to determine income eligibility […]
Nearly a quarter of U.S. children use at least one prescription drug a month, most commonly treating such conditions as asthma, attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, and infections. Medicaid guarantees that enrolled children who need drugs receive them without any financial barriers, while some in the Children’s Health Insurance Program have a modest copayment. This report, the third in a […]
It’s really good to know we can count on the monthly reports from CMS to keep tabs on Medicaid and CHIP application and enrollment activity. Since CMS released the first data in January, we’ve seen improvements in the number of states reporting, and enrollment data was added to the initial report of application volume and […]
Concord Monitor By: Ethan DeWitt But while the New Hampshire program is safe at least until the next budget negotiations in 2019, some are still urging caution. At a press conference Friday, Sen. Maggie Hassan and Rep. Ann Kuster, both Democrats, said that the lapse of CHIP, if made permanent, would spell problems down the […]
Much to our pleasant surprise here at CCF, the recent health care debate elevated and educated many lawmakers on the role of Medicaid for children and families. Medicaid, of course, is the foundation of health coverage for children in the U.S.—a fact that was often overlooked until recently, even by health-savvy lawmakers. But Say Ahhh! […]
Final Rule on ACA Medicaid and CHIP Eligibility March 23, 2012
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 […]
During the debate on CHIP, conversations focused a lot on what would happen to kids’ coverage without the program. Now that Congress has extended CHIP funding through 2017, we look to the future. In the near-term, if no new funds are available after 2017, states may eliminate their separate CHIP programs. Further, many Say Ahhh! […]
The Children’s Health Insurance Program Reauthorization Act of 2009 created a grant program to improve outreach and enrollment in Medicaid and CHIP. The HEALTHY KIDS and ACCESS Acts marked the third extension of this program earlier this year. To date, this program has provided four rounds of grants to community-based organizations and states as well […]
Today, the Kaiser Family Foundation and the Georgetown University Center for Children and Families released their annual 50-state survey on Medicaid and CHIP eligibility, enrollment, renewal and cost-sharing policies. The survey is a “must read” report for anyone interested in health care policy and its impact on low-income children and families across the country. Tricia […]
Last week we released a new report on the consequences of delayed Congressional action on CHIP. Federal funding for CHIP expired 32 days ago, an unprecedented lapse in CHIP’s 20-year history. States are quickly running out of federal funding, with Arizona, Minnesota, and Oregon slated to exhaust federal funds before the end of December. If […]
NBC News By: PHIL MCCAUSLAND More than 1.75 million children in 20 states and Washington, D.C., are at risk of losing their health insurance by the end of February if Congress does not reauthorize the Children’s Health Insurance Program, which ceased being funded when lawmakers failed to pass a spending bill late Friday night. … “There […]