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Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP)
- Jan 2018: A new CBO cost estimate has significantly reduced the projected Federal cost of extending CHIP, because projected increases in health premiums due to the tax bill’s repeal of the ACA individual mandate would make it less costly for the government to fund CHIP than to subsidize low-income children in the health exchanges. Related CBO estimate
- CHIP Overview from CRS: The Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP) is a means-tested program that provides health coverage to targeted low-income children and pregnant women in families that have annual income above Medicaid eligibility levels but have no health insurance. CHIP is jointly financed by the federal government and the states, and the states are responsible for administering CHIP.
- Expiration: Federal CHIP funding is set to expire after FY2017. However, in FY 2018 states will have access to unspent funds from their FY2017 allotments and to unspent FY2016 allotments redistributed to shortfall states (if any). According to an estimate conducted by the Medicaid and CHIP Payment and Access Commission, without additional federal CHIP funding, three states (Arizona, Minnesota, and North Carolina) and the District of Columbia are projected to exhaust their federal CHIP funding by the end of the first fiscal quarter of FY2018, and more than half of states are projected to exhaust their federal CHIP funding by the second fiscal quarter.
- KFF: Current Status of State Planning for the Future of CHIP
- CRS: Federal Financing for the State Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP) Sept 2017
- CRS: CHIP and the ACA Maintenance of Effort (MOE) Requirement – In Brief Sept 2016
- CRS: The Medicare Access and CHIP Reauthorization Act of 2015 (MACRA) Nov 2015
- CRS: State Children’s Health Insurance Program – An Overview March 2015
- GAO: CHIP – Effects on Coverage and Access, and Considerations for Extending Funding March 2015
- CBO: CHIP Financing Issues July 2014
- GAO: Medicaid and CHIP Payment and Access Commission (MACPAC)
