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CHIP enrollment: June 2012 data snapshot
CHIP enrollment: June 2012 data snapshot
- Collection:
- Health Policy and Services Research
- Series Title(s):
- Issue brief (Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation)
- Author(s):
- Smith, Vernon, author
Snyder, Laura, author
Rudowitz, Robin, author - Contributor(s):
- Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation, issuing body.
Kaiser Commission on Medicaid and the Uninsured, issuing body. - Publication:
- Menlo Park, CA : Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation, August 2013
- Language(s):
- English
- Format:
- Text
- Subject(s):
- Child Health Services -- legislation & jurisprudence
Child Health Services -- trends
Cost Sharing -- legislation & jurisprudence
Cost Sharing -- trends
Eligibility Determination -- legislation & jurisprudence
Eligibility Determination -- trends
Health Care Reform -- legislation & jurisprudence
Health Care Reform -- trends
United States
United States. - Genre(s):
- Technical Report
- Abstract:
- In June 2012, the number of children enrolled in the Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP) reached 5.5 million. From June 2011 to June 2012, an additional 206,000 children enrolled in CHIP programs across the country, a rate of growth (3.9 percent), a slight uptick from the prior annual period (3.5%) but still well below the program’s recessionary peak of 10% growth from June 2007 to June 2008. (Figure 1) CHIP and Medicaid provide a crucial safety net of coverage for low-income children, particularly during economic downturns. During the most recent recession, the percentage of uninsured children declined from 10.9 percent in 2007 to 9.7 percent in 2011 despite a drop in the share of children with employer-sponsored coverage, due largely to more children gaining coverage through Medicaid and CHIP.1 CHIP offers coverage to low-income children in families who do not have access to affordable coverage but whose incomes are above Medicaid eligibility levels; therefore, economic pressures have provided both upward and downward pressure on enrollment. During the economic downturn, many Americans lost jobs, incomes, and access to affordable coverage, making children in such families eligible for CHIP. However, as family income continues to fall, children move from CHIP to Medicaid. Actions at the federal level have also affected CHIP enrollment. As part of the Children’s Health Insurance Program Reauthorization Act (CHIPRA), Congress provided performance bonuses through FFY 2013 for states that increase their enrollment of children who are eligible for Medicaid coverage but not enrolled and adopt enrollment simplifications. FFY 2012, nearly $306 million in such bonuses were awarded to twenty-three states, 22 of which had previously been awarded bonuses. Additionally, 16 states received a tier 2 bonus, indicating they exceeded their enrollment targets by more than ten percent.2 Additionally, the Affordable Care Act (ACA) included maintenance of effort (MOE) provisions which require states to maintain eligibility levels until 2019 for children. CHIP programs also face the same requirements in terms of enrollment simplifications, coordination with Medicaid and the new Marketplaces, as well as the use of Modified Adjust Gross Income beginning in 2014. Under CHIPRA, the CHIP program was reauthorized through 2015.
- Copyright:
- Reproduced with permission of the copyright holder. Further use of the material is subject to CC BY license. (More information)
- Extent:
- 1 online resource (1 PDF file (9 pages))
- Illustrations:
- Illustrations
- NLM Unique ID:
- 101619093 (See catalog record)
- Permanent Link:
- http://resource.nlm.nih.gov/101619093