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  • Child Health Facts:  National and State Profiles of Coverage

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    Child Health Facts: National and State Profiles of Coverage Appendix 2 Medicaid Enhanced Matching Rate Matching Rate Alabama 69.3% 78.5% Alaska 59.8% 71.9% Arizona 65.3% 75.7% Arkansas 72.8% 81.0% California 51.2% 65.9% Colorado 52.0% 66.4% Connecticut 50.0% 65.0% Delaware 50.0% 65.0% District of Columbia 70.0% 79.0% Florida 55.7% 69.0% Georgia 60.8% 72.6% Hawaii 50.0% 65.0% Idaho 69.6% 78.7% Illinois 50.0% 65.0% Indiana 61.4% 73.0% Iowa 63.8% 74.6% Kansas 59.7% 71.8% Kentucky 70.4% 79.3% Louisiana 70.0%…

  • Medicaid Eligibility for Families and Children

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    Part 5 Appendix Table 1: Medicaid Eligibility Levels for Pregnant Women and Children Pregnant Women, Infants and Children(as of May 20, 1998) Other Eligibility Categories Pregnant Women and Infants Children Under Age 6 Children Ages 6 to 14 Children Ages 14 to 19 Asset Test Required for Children (4) Max. AFDC Payments (7/16/96) (5) Medically Needy, 1996 (percent of Federal Poverty Level) United States 133 133 100 45 49 Alabama 133 133 100 100 No…

  • Choosing Premium Assistance: What Does State Experience Tell Us?

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    Premium assistance programs use federal and state Medicaid and State Children’s Health Insurance Program (SCHIP) funds to purchase private coverage. Overall, few states have premium assistance programs, but interest in premium assistance remains high. This brief examines six state premium assistance programs (in Florida, Idaho, Illinois, Oregon, Utah, and Virginia) that allow families to choose to receive a subsidy to apply to the purchase of private coverage rather than to receive direct Medicaid or SCHIP…

  • New Publications Examine SCHIP Experience; Trends in Access to Medicaid and SCHIP Coverage

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    Maintaining and expanding health coverage for children and parents will likely be in the forefront of health care policy debates in Washington and state capitols in 2007. With states generally in better financial shape since the fiscal crisis earlier in the decade, many have expressed interest in improving access to their Medicaid and State Children's Health Insurance Programs (SCHIP). A new 50-state survey shows that one-third of states (17) increased access to health coverage in…

  • Covering Uninsured Children: Reaching and Enrolling Citizen Children With Non-Citizen Parents

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    This issue brief examines health insurance coverage for low-income citizen children whose parents are not citizens and some of the specific barriers to enrolling these children in Medicaid and the State Children's Health Insurance Program. It is based on findings from the Kaiser Survey of Children's Health Coverage, a telephone survey of parents conducted in 2007 to learn more about children’s access to coverage and care and the health care cost-related pressures facing their families.…

  • Children’s Health Insurance Program Reauthorization Act of 2009 (CHIPRA)

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    This fact sheet provides an overview of provisions of the Children's Health Insurance Program Reauthorization Act of 2009 (CHIPRA), which was signed into law in February 2009. The Act extends and expands the State Children's Health Insurance Program (now referred to as CHIP, not SCHIP) that was enacted with bipartisan support a decade ago as part of the Balanced Budget Act of 1997 (BBA). Fact Sheet (.pdf) Fact Sheet: State Adoption of Coverage and Enrollment…

  • CHIP TIPS Series Focuses On New Opportunities For Covering Children Under Medicaid and CHIP

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    This series of implementation briefs called “CHIP Tips” examines new opportunities for covering children following the reauthorization and expansion of CHIP in February 2009. Together Medicaid and CHIP provide coverage for more than one in four children in the U.S., yet many others remain eligible but uninsured. The series, which explores a range of topics, is jointly produced by the Kaiser Family Foundation’s Commission on Medicaid and the Uninsured and the Center for Children and…

  • Choices Under the New State Child Health Insurance Program: What Factors Shape Cost and Coverage? – Policy Brief

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    Choices Under The New State Child Health Insurance Program: What Factors Shape Cost And Coverage? January 1998 The State Children's Health Insurance Program (CHIP), enacted as part of the Balanced Budget Act of 1997, provides over $20 billion in federal funds over five years to cover low-income uninsured children. This program gives states considerable flexibility in designing expanded health insurance coverage for children. The way states design their programs -- use of Medicaid or a…

  • CHIP TIPS: CHIP Financing Structure

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    This brief, the fourth in a series, examines important changes to CHIP’s financing structure under the Children’s Health Insurance Program Reauthorization Act of 2009. The law includes a number of important programmatic and financing changes that affect both Medicaid and CHIP. Among the most important changes include significant new funding for the CHIP program, changes in the formula for distributing CHIP funds among states and a new option for states to decide whether to use…