What happened next was that Republicans chose to take one last shot at killing ObamaCare with the Cassidy-Graham health-care bill just as CHIP's funding deadline loomed, and the Senate simply didn't have the attention for anything else. "Colorado CHP+ members need to know they still have coverage until the federal funds run out at the end of January", said Department of Health Care Policy and Financing Executive Director Susan E. Birch.
Although most states can extend aid with rollovers from their two-year allotments, Minnesota had been on course to expend its entire share September 30 and was exploring "extraordinary measures" to continue coverage, including using $10 million from its general fund.
"We can't forget our most vulnerable - our children who rely on us to care for them", Gov. Wolf said.
On Sept. 30, federal funding for CHIP expired, leaving states alone in footing the bill in paying for the health care of millions of children and pregnant women in low- and moderate-income homes. These groups don't qualify for Medicaid. But once the Cassidy-Graham brouhaha started, "we couldn't even get a meeting", Lesley said. If CHIP is allowed to die, children formerly under this program will have zero affordable options to see a doctor.
Benefits vary somewhat between states, but the program's range of benefits include medical and dental visits for routine well-child care, immunizations, prescriptions, vision care, emergency care, laboratory and X-ray services and hospital care. The rest are covered under Iowa's Medicaid expansion. Moving CHIP enrollees to Medicaid would leave Minnesota with a multimillion-dollar tab to continue covering those beneficiaries. This is a vulnerable part of our population. But in 10 states the federal government covers 100 percent of the funding for the program.
It turns out Congress was so busy trying to pass the last Trumpcare bill that it simply neglected to get around to reauthorizing CHIP by the deadline this past Saturday.
This program cost the federal government about $13.6 billion in 2016. Washington, D.C., officials will be meeting with the CMS this week to determine the amount of re-distribution funds available to the district and when the funds will be received, said Dorinda White, a spokeswoman for its Medicaid agency.
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OR says it has enough CHIP funding to last through October for its program that covers 98,000 children. Capriotti said there should be enough to carry Arizona through October and November.
Some states are expected to exhaust their resources by the end of the year.
Federal funding for CHIP had been renewed by Congress in 2007, 2009, 2010, and 2015.
"We believe congress will come through, but the fact they would let the deadline expire is a concern", said Carnes. A spokesperson for his office said the senator continues to support the program. The last renewal was in 2015, for two years.
A House committee is scheduled to hold a hearing on renewing CHIP tomorrow, and advocates were cheered to learn today that the bill it will consider is in the same posture as the Senate's in terms of the five-year reauthorization and gradual wind-down of the enhanced subsidy.
Medicaid serves children at about 141 percent of the federal poverty level, CHIP serves families with more income, up to about 318 percent of the federal poverty level. Orrin Hatch of Utah and the late Democratic Sen.
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