Hatch-Upton CHIP Proposal Moves Backward on Children’s Health Coverage
End Notes
[1] House Committee on Energy and Commerce, “Discussion Draft: Extending Funding for the State Children’s Health Insurance Program,” February 24, 2015, http://energycommerce.house.gov/sites/republicans.energycommerce.house.gov/files/114/Analysis/SCHIPSectionbySection.pdf.
[2] At this time, the draft bill does not specify the number of years or the annual amounts of additional CHIP funding that would be provided. The Brown and Green bills would provide additional CHIP funding for four years (2016-2019).
[3] See Medicaid and CHIP Payment and Access Commission, “Report to Congress on Medicaid and CHIP,” June 2014.
[4] The states are AL, CT, DC, HI, IL, IA, MD, MA, MO, NH, NJ, NM, NY, OR, PA, VT, WA, WV and WI. See Tricia Brooks et al., “Modern Era Medicaid: Findings from a 50-State Survey, Eligibility, Enrollment, Renewal and Cost-Sharing Policies in Medicaid and CHIP as of January 2015,” Kaiser Family Foundation, January 2015, http://ccf.georgetown.edu/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/Modern-Era-Medicaid-January-2015.pdf
[5] The additional states are CA, CO, GA, IN, LA, MN, MT, RI and TN. See Brooks et al., op cit.
[6] See Edwin Park and Judith Solomon, “Expiring Medicaid and CHIP Provisions Should Be Extended in End-of-Year Legislation,” Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, revised January 8, 2014, https://www.cbpp.org/cms/index.cfm?fa=view&id=4056.
[7] See Government Accountability Office, “Medicaid and CHIP: Considerations for Express Lane Eligibility,”GAO-13-178R, December 5, 2012, http://gao.gov/assets/660/650529.pdf and Mathematica Policy Research, “CHIPRA Mandated Evaluation of Express Lane Eligibility: Final Findings,” December 2013, http://aspe.hhs.gov/health/reports/2013/ELE/ELE%20Final%20Report%20to%20ASPE%2012%2011%2013.pdf.
[8] In Medicaid, under this option, the federal matching rate for translation and interpretation services is 75 percent (rather than the regular administrative matching rate of 50 percent) and in CHIP, the higher of 75 percent or five points above the state’s CHIP matching rate.
[9] See Wesley Prater and Joan Alker, “Aligning Eligibility for Children: Moving the Stairstep Kids to Medicaid,” Kaiser Family Foundation, August 2013, http://ccf.georgetown.edu/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/stair-step.pdf.
[10] See Tricia Brooks, “Making Kids Wait for Coverage Makes No Sense in a Reformed Health System,” Center for Children and Families, Georgetown University Health Policy Institute, February 2015, http://ccf.georgetown.edu/wp-content/uploads/2013/12/Making-Kids-Wait-for-Coverage-Makes-No-Sense-in-a-Reformed-Health-System1.pdf.