tci Medicare Compliance & Reimbursement - 2008 Issue 4

SCHIP: SCHIP Plan Causes Stir In Child Health Care

CMS curbs Medicaid extension to children above 250 percent of poverty line The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) recent move to limit expansion of the State Children's Health Insurance Program (SCHIP) has caught a lot of heat. The new directive, obtained without congressional approval, blocks all states from extending Medicaid to children in families with income above 250 percent of the federal poverty line, "without first showing that 95 percent of those eligible below 200 percent of poverty have been enrolled in the program," according to a recent article in the Commonwealth Fund's CQ Healthbeat. Meeting...

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