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  • Out of Touch: A Status Report on CMS’s August 17th Directive

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    By Jocelyn Guyer On August 17, 2007, CMS sent a letter, known as the August 17th directive, to state health officials sharply restricting the ability of states to cover uninsured children using SCHIP funds. New data and analyses from state officials, research organizations, and policy experts raise significant questions about the basis for and the…

  • Louisiana – Expansions, Simplifications and Outreach

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    Summary Since the late 1990’s Louisiana has made steady and substantial progress in expanding eligibility for Medicaid and LaCHIP (Louisiana’s State Children’s Health Insurance Program), and enrolling and retaining eligible children. Since LaCHIP’s implementation in November 1998, Louisiana reported an uninsured rate for low-income children of 32 percent. By 2007, the uninsured rate for this…

  • CMS 95% Coverage Rate Requirement

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    What the Directive Required Under the directive, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) imposed new conditions that states must meet in order to cover children with gross family incomes above 250 percent of the federal poverty level (FPL) with SCHIP funds. One of these conditions required that at least 95 percent of children…

  • Children’s Coverage: Moving Forward in Uncertain Times

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    Author: Cindy Mann National Association for Children’s Behavioral Health – Presentation Document March 2008

  • SCHIP Funding in the Year Ahead: Implications of the Medicare, Medicaid and SCHIP Extension Act

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    By Jocelyn Guyer Although Congress twice passed SCHIP reauthorization bills with strong, bi-partisan support in 2007, President Bush’s decision to veto these bills ultimately led Congress to simply extend the existing SCHIP program with new funding through March 2009. This issue brief provides details on the financing provisions of the extension and state-specific data on…

  • Cover All Kids: Pennsylvania’s State-Wide Campaign to Expand Eligibility

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    In 2004, in an effort to more accurately identify remaining gaps in health care coverage, the Pennsylvania Insurance Department commissioned a survey on the insurance status of citizens in the state. The Department found that while 96 percent of Pennsylvania’s children had coverage, more than 133,500 were uninsured. Of these, approximately 108,000 were eligible for…

  • Pennsylvania: Streamlined Enrollment & Renewal through Technology

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    Summary Pennsylvania has had important success in providing health insurance coverage: according to a 2005 state report only 8 percent of Pennsylvanians, and only 4 percent of the state’s children, are uninsured. A core component of this success has been strong public programs. About one in three children are covered by Medicaid or CHIP (its…

  • SCHIP Provisions in the Administration’s FY2009 Budget

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    This memo provides an analysis of SCHIP provisions in President Bush’s proposed fiscal year 2009 budget. It shows that provisions in the budget proposal would effectively eliminate state flexibility to provide SCHIP coverage for children with family incomes above 250 percent of the federal poverty level, and make it very difficult for states to cover…

  • Moving Backward: Status Report of August 17, 2007 Directive

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    On August 17, 2007, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services issued a directive, imposing new conditions on states that want to use federal funds to offer affordable coverage to children over 250 percent of the federal poverty level. This issue brief reviews the impact of the new rules on children’s coverage to date, finding…

  • Moving Forward? Reauthorization of SCHIP

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    Author: Cindy Mann 2007 Kids Count Conference — Presentation Document October 2007

  • CHIPRA: Just the Facts, PLEASE

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    Author: Cindy Mann National Academy for State Health Policy — Presentation Document October 2007

  • Coverage of Uninsured Children in Moderate-Income Families Under SCHIP

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    By Jocelyn Guyer To help inform the debate over the 2007 reauthorization of SCHIP, this issue brief provides new data on the extent to which low- to moderate-income children are currently enrolled in SCHIP. It shows that children with family income below 300 percent of the federal poverty level presently comprise 99.5 percent of those…

  • The Growing Health Insurance Affordability Gap for Children and Families

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    This issue brief presents data showing the role that flexibility in the SCHIP program has played in allowing states to address the growing gap in health insurance affordability among the nation’s children. It focuses on the increasing costs to families of securing health coverage, both in terms of the absolute costs and as a proportion…

  • Public/Private Coverage in SCHIP Reauthorization: Premium Assistance and Other Issues

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    Author: Joan Alker American Academy of Pediatrics, Committee on Federal Government Affairs — Presentation Document September 2007

  • Summary of The Children’s Health Insurance Program Reauthorization Act of 2007

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    This issue brief provides a summary of the major provisions of the Children’s Health Insurance Program Reauthorization Act (CHIPRA) of 2007 that was approved by Congress in September 2007. As adopted, the bill proposes providing states with $35 billion over five years in new SCHIP and Medicaid funding to cover an additional four million children.…

  • Moving Backward: New Federally Imposed Limits on States’ Ability to Cover Children

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    On August 17, 2007, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services issued a SCHIP directive, imposing new conditions on states that want to offer affordable SCHIP coverage to children over 250 percent of the federal poverty level. This issue brief details the policy changes under the directive and the implications they will have on states…

  • Summary of the Senate SCHIP Bill: The Children’s Health Insurance Program Reauthorization Act of 2007

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    This issue brief provides a summary of the child health provisions of the SCHIP reauthorization bill that was approved by the U.S. Senate on August 3, 2007. The bill proposes providing states with $35 billion over five years in new SCHIP and Medicaid funding to cover an additional four million children.    

  • Summary of the House SCHIP Bill: Children’s Health and Medicare Protection Act of 2007

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    This issue brief provides a summary of the child health provisions of the Children’s Health and Medicare Protection Act of 2007 that was approved by the U.S. House of Representatives on August 1, 2007. The bill proposes providing states with nearly $50 billion over five years in new SCHIP and Medicaid funding to cover an…

  • SCHIP Reauthorization: What’s at Stake for Michigan

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    Author: Liz Arjun Michigan’s Promise & Voices for Michigan’s Children Training – Presentation Document July 2007

  • Children’s Coverage: Getting to the Finish Line: A View from the States

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    Author: Cindy Mann California State Legislature — Presentation Document June 2007