Children's Health Insurance Programs (SCHIP and States Aiming to Cover All Kids) Charting SCHIP III: An Analysis of the Third Comprehensive Survey of State Children’s Health Insurance Programs CHIPCentral.org Covering All Kids All the Time One of NASHP’s key areas of focus is child and adolescent health coverage. Our work in this area includes analysis, reporting, and support for state programs and plans for SCHIP, and analysis and information sharing on state programs aimed at assuring that all children and adolescents are covered continuously. What is SCHIP? The State Children’s Health Insurance Program (SCHIP) was created by Congress in 1997 and is funded by both the federal government and the states. The program is designed to help states initiate and expand the provision of child health insurance to uninsured, low-income children. SCHIP is administered by the states which have three options for providing SCHIP coverage. They can: create separate SCHIP programs; expand eligibility for benefits under the state’s Medicaid plan (a Medicaid SCHIP program); or use both approaches in combination. Within federal guidelines, states determine their SCHIP program(s): design, eligibility rules, benefits packages, payment levels, and administrative and operating procedures. At the federal level, SCHIP is administered by the Department of Health and Human Services though the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS). What is NASHP’s role in SCHIP? Soon after Congress created SCHIP, the David and Lucile Packard Foundation awarded funding to the National Academy for State Health Policy to support SCHIP implementation. NASHP assists states in the planning, implementation, and refinement of their SCHIP Programs. Our major activities have included: the development of a CMS approved framework for use by states in completing their annual reports; studies on retention, disenrollment, evaluation, family coverage, Hispanic enrollment, on-line enrollment, and other key issues; the creation of quality improvement (SWOT) teams to address common state concerns; publication of Charting SCHIP, a survey of state SCHIP programs; national forums of state SCHIP directors, federal officials, and advocates; and a heavily used list serv of (and for) state SCHIP directors and their staff. For more information, contact John McInerney. SCHIP Program Type and State Websites (click on map for larger view) Some of the files posted on this page and its subpages require Adobe Acrobat reader.  Click on icon to download the reader.

State program type     and websites SCHIP eligibility levels    updated July 2005 Cost sharing in SCHIP SCHIP reauthorization SCHIP disenrollment    surveys State premium    assistance programs  NASHP pubs on SCHIP SCHIP Web resources 8 states have set SCHIP    eligibility below 200%. 30 states have set SCHIP    eligibility at 200%. 13 states have set SCHIP    eligibility level above    200%. 5 states cover childless    adults. 7 states cover unborn    children. 6 states cover parents. 2 states cover pregnant    women.          Source: NASHP, 2005