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the age of 5; or when the cost of the child’s portion of the family’s employer-based health insurance premium is more than 5 percent of family income.
• New York will monitor families who apply for coverage under CHIP that have private coverage at the time of application or have dropped that coverage within the past 6 months. New York will also track those applicants who have dropped coverage within 6 months of applying for CHIP, but qualify for an exemption of the waiting period because they meet one of the program’s specific exemptions, and the State will track the incidence of each exemption category.
Outreach Activities
• The Connections to Coverage Campaign, the New York DOH multi-faceted outreach campaign, is used to identify and assist in enrolling uninsured children into the CHPlus and Medicaid programs. Campaign strategies include developing community partnerships, conducting outreach at community events, training community partners about public health insurance, and raising public awareness of the programs through distribution of health education materials. New York also conducts community outreach and marketing through participating health plans.
Financial Information
Total FFY ’09 CHIP Allotment: $433,472,600 FFY ’09 Enhanced Federal Matching Rate: 65.00 percent
Total FFY ’10 CHIP Allotment: $453,795,878 FFY ’10 Enhanced Federal Matching Rate: 65.00 percent
Date Last Updated: CMS, CMCS, FCHPG, DSCHI, July 16, 2010