Children's Health - CHIP Reauthorization
What’s Happening Now?
CMS Releases Guidance on Dental Coverage: CHIPRA makes a firm commitment to addressing children’s oral health care needs by requiring states to provide dental coverage to all children who are enrolled in CHIP, and by giving states a new option to provide dental-only coverage to certain children who do not qualify for full CHIP coverage. On October 7, 2009, CMS released guidance on what states must do to comply with the new CHIP dental benefits requirements and the new options states have to expand access to dental care for low-income children.
CMS Awards First Round of CHIPRA Outreach Grants: CMS awarded the first of two rounds of outreach grants on September 30, 2009. $40 million in grants were awarded to 62 groups in 46 states and the District of Columbia. A list of grantees and descriptions of their projects can be found here.
Summary of Final CHIP Reauthorization Bill (Families USA, February 2, 2009)
The Children’s Health Insurance Program Reauthorization Act of 2009 (HR 2) (signed by the President February 4, 2009)
Click here for more on what happened during the 2007 reauthorization fight.
From Families USA:
CHIPRA: The Children's Health Insurance Program Reauthorization Act - A Series of Issue Briefs. In February 2009, after a protracted political fight, Congress enacted, and President Obama signed, legislation that renewed CHIP through the end of 2013 and expanded its scope. These issue briefs examine the new provisions that were included in the reauthorization and how they will affect implementation in the coming months.
Yes We Can...Cover More than 4 Million Uninsured Children shows how many children would gain coverage in all 50 states and the District of Columbia under the CHIP reauthorization bill passed by the House (H.R. 2). (January 2009)
Still Too Many Uninsured Children examines the new Census Bureau data about children's health coverage in 2007. It describes the importance of Medicaid and CHIP for children's health coverage, how the President's harmful policies are hurting children, and what Congress and the next President should do to help. (August 2008)
