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Children's Health Insurance Program Reauthorization Act Case Study

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1. What is the name of your chosen policy? a. Official Title: i. H.R.2 (111th): Children's Health Insurance Program Reauthorization Act b. Other Titles: i. amend title XXI of the Social Security Act 2. When was it introduced? a. This bill was introduced by Rep. Pallone, Frank Jr (D-NJ-6), on January 13, 2009). 3. What healthcare system issue or “problem” does your policy attempt to address? a. President Obama signed into law the Children’s Health Insurance Program Reauthorization Act of 2009 (CHIPRA) on February 4, 2009. The new law is designed to provide coverage to large numbers of children that are currently uninsured and to improve their quality of care. Key to this legislation is that it reinforces the Children’s Health Insurance …show more content…

ii. Authorizes new tools, such as Express Lane eligibility, to enable and improve the enrollment of those children already eligible, but uninsured. These new tools also have a performance bonus system so that states may get additional federal financial help if they significantly increase enrollment of eligible uninsured children in Medicaid. They would also have to adopt measures to streamline enrollment and renewal in both Medicaid and CHIP. The law applies current Medicaid citizenship requirement rules to the CHIP system. It also has new electronic options for documenting citizenship status in both Medicaid and CHIP. This change would cut the red tape obstacles for low-income citizen children to enroll in coverage (retrieved: congress.gov, 12/08/17). iii. Authorizes states to have the choice to eliminate the five-year waiting period currently in place on lawful immigrant children and pregnant women in Medicaid and CHIP. (retrieved: congress.gov, 12/08/17). iv. Authorizes a new, explicit statutory option to cover pregnant women with CHIP funds. (retrieved: congress.gov, 12/08/17). v. Reforms the current CMS directive and gives the states the flexibility to set the income eligibility level for children in their state (retrieved: congress.gov, 12/08/17). vi. Reforms the law and eliminates the authority of the

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