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Date Amendment #10 Submitted: April 4, 2005 Date Amendment #10 Withdrawn: May 30, 2005

Date Amendment #11 Submitted: May 30, 2005 Date Amendment #11 Approved: November 22, 2005 Date Amendment #11 Effective:

July 1, 2005

Date Amendment #12 Submitted: June 12, 2009 Date Amendment #12 Approved: September 18, 2009 Date Amendment #12 Effective:

April 1, 2009

Date Amendment #13 Submitted: June 25, 2009 Date Amendment #13 Approved: May 14, 2010 Date Amendment #13 Effective:

April 1, 2009

Date Amendment #14 Submitted:

June 26, 2009 Date Amendment #14 Approved:

Pending Date Amendment #14 Effective:

May 1, 2009

Date Amendment #15 Submitted: September 25, 2009 Date Amendment #15 Approved: December 17, 2009 Date Amendment #15 Effective:

July 1, 2009

Background

• On February 6, 1998, New Jersey submitted a Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP) State plan with a separate child health component (NJ KidCare Plans B & C) and a CHIP Medicaid expansion component (NJ KidCare Plan A). The Medicaid expansion covers uninsured children up to age 19 with family incomes at or below 133 percent of the Federal poverty level (FPL). The separate child health program initially covered uninsured children with gross family incomes above 133 percent up to and including 200 percent of the FPL. New Jersey has had approval to cover uninsured children up to and including 350 percent of the FPL since August 3, 1999, effective as of July 1, 1999. The name of New Jersey’s CHIP plan was later changed to New Jersey FamilyCare (NJ FamilyCare) in January of 2001.

Amendments

• New Jersey submitted its first State plan amendment (SPA) on February 9, 1999, to shorten the length of time that children must be uninsured before applying for the separate child health program (Plans B & C) from 12 months to 6 months.

• The State submitted its second SPA on May 6, 1999. This SPA applied income disregards to expand New Jersey KidCare (later renamed NJ FamilyCare) to children in families with incomes through 350 percent of the FPL. The expansion, known a NJ KidCare Plan D, provided health insurance to an additional 9,000 children as of September 1999.