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State Children’s Health Insurance Program

Phase 1 Effective Date: April 1, 1998

Revised: 1/26/98, 2/19/98, 3/3/98, 3/6/98 Phase 2 Effective Date: July 1, 1998

Revised: 8/20/98, 8/24/98, 10/1/99, 7/28/00, 1/31/01, 7/02/02, 7/22/02, 1/3/03, 2/13/04, 9/27/04, 11/15/04, 8/11/05, 10/1/06, 7/1/09, 7/1/10, 7/1/11, 7/1/12 18 July 1, 2011, the 2011 Florida Legislature appropriated a total of $7.5 million using Title XXI administrative funds for Comprehensive and Full Service School Health Services. Increasing the number of counties therefore increases the number of students served which also increases the volume of the services provided by the school nurses. Full-service school health services do not duplicate services offered through SNAP and TANF. The same safeguards as explained in Section 3.1 will apply to Full Service School Health Services.

2.2.1. The steps the state is currently taking to identify and enroll all uncovered children who are eligible to participate in public health insurance programs (i.e. Medicaid and state-only child health insurance): Florida uses several programs to provide health care coverage to eligible low- income children: Medicaid The Agency for Health Care Administration is Florida’s designated single state agency for the Medicaid program. The Department of Children and Families is Florida’s designated Title IV-A agency and conducts Medicaid eligibility determination and enrollment functions. Over half of Florida’s 2 million Medicaid patients are children — about 1.3 million. Florida Medicaid covers children at the following income levels:

Florida Medicaid Child Eligibility Age Federal Poverty Level 2012 Annual Income Family of 4 0 to 1 185% (Title XIX - effective 7/1/00) $42,643 0 to 1 185.01% - 200% (Title XXI Medicaid Expansion) $46,100 1 to 6 133% $30,657 6 to 15 100% $23,050 15 to 19 100% (effective 4/1/98) $23,050