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At the time, the massive Texas Children’s Health Insurance Program, or CHIP, existed only on paper, the Legislature having just passed it weeks earlier as the state version of a 1997 federal ...
The Children's Health Insurance Program (CHIP) – formerly known as the State Children's Health Insurance Program (SCHIP) – is a program administered by the United States Department of Health and Human Services that provides matching funds to states for health insurance to families with children. [1] The program was designed to cover ...
Medicaid is the largest source of funding for medical and health-related services for people with low income in the United States, providing free health insurance to 85 million low-income and disabled people as of 2022; [3] in 2019, the program paid for half of all U.S. births. [4]
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Early and Periodic Screening, Diagnostic and Treatment (EPSDT) is the child health component of Medicaid. Federal statutes and regulations state that children under age 21 who are enrolled in Medicaid are entitled to EPSDT benefits and that States must cover a broad array of preventive and treatment services. Unlike private insurance, EPSDT is ...
The health plan also has a second contract to provide Medicaid health insurance to kids with disabilities in the STAR Kids program. One of those children is Zechariah Sudolcan, a 2-year-old born ...
Photograph by official White House photographer Michael Evans, courtesy of the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library. A Katie Beckett waiver or TEFRA waiver is a Medicaid waiver concerning the income eligibility for home-based Medicaid services for children under the age of nineteen. Prior to the Katie Beckett waiver, if a child with significant ...
The Texas Health and Human Services Commission is standing by its decision not to award a large Medicaid contract to Cook Children’s Health Plan, a major provider of Medicaid health insurance to ...