On April 16th, President Obama signed into law the Medicare Access and CHIP Reauthorization Act of 2015 (MACRA), now Public Law 114-10, which provides new federal funding for the Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP) through 2017 and permanently adjusts the flawed Medicare physician payment formula to prevent cuts in reimbursements to Medicare providers. It also extends […]
There are lots of exciting things happening at the Center for Children and Families (CCF) these days including the upcoming celebration of our 10th anniversary at our annual conference this July. As we celebrate a decade of work, it gives me great pleasure to announce that as of July 1st, Kelly Whitener, who currently serves […]
By Genevieve M. Kenney and Nathaniel Anderson, Urban Institute We keep a close eye on fluctuations in the participation rate in Medicaid and the Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP) because it is so critical to efforts to bring down the uninsured rate for children. Our latest data found that children’s participation in Medicaid/CHIP was 88.3 […]
CMS just released 2013 participation rates for children in Medicaid and CHIP, as calculated by experts at the Urban Institute. We keep a close eye on this data as it provides important insights into how well states are reaching eligible but uninsured children (which are the majority of uninsured children). As Say Ahhh! readers well […]
[Editor’s note: The joy of CHIP funding extension has CCFers breaking into song. We had a difficult time not headlining this post “All About that Bump,” to be sung “It’s all about that bump, ‘bout that bump, more funding” to this popular tune.] As the ink was drying on H.R. 2 (now Public Law 114-10), […]
Late this evening, the Senate passed H.R.2, the compromise SGR-CHIP package passed by the House late last month, by an overwhelmingly strong vote (92-8). Most of the health policy world will be buzzing about the fact that this historic bipartisan achievement makes the SGR “doc fix” permanent, and that’s indeed a grand feat. But this […]
