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Model Application Template for the State Children’s Health Insurance Program
Effective Date: 11/1/10 6
Approval Date: 12/30/10 eligibility level for CHIP children through age 18 from 185 percent of the Federal poverty level (FPL) up to and including 300 percent of the FPL under the State’s Healthy Kids initiative. This SPA is a companion amendment to the State’s section 1115 title XXI demonstration amendment. This SPA also creates a new private insurance option, referred to as Healthy KidsConnect, specifically for children from 200 up to and including 300 percent of the FPL under Secretary-approved coverage under the CHIP state plan. In addition, this SPA institutes an Application Assistance Program to assist families applying for CHIP and other child health programs in the State as part of its Healthy Kids initiative, finances an outreach and enrollment grant program designed to provide culturally-specific and targeted outreach and direct application assistance to families in racial, ethnic and language minority communities living in geographic isolation or with additional access barriers, reduces the waiting period of uninsurance for CHIP coverage from 6 months to 2 months, and eliminates the asset test in CHIP This amendment will have a retroactive effective date of October 1, 2009, for the expansion of eligibility from 185 percent of FPL up to and including 200 percent of the FPL, as well as for the application assistance program, outreach and enrollment grant program, the waiting period reduction, and elimination of the asset test. Submitted: July 27, 2009 Effective: October 1, 2009 This amendment will also have an effective date of January 1, 2010, for the expansion of eligibility above 200 percent of the FPL up to and including 300 percent of the FPL. However, the State must receive approval for its section 1115 demonstration amendment in order to permit children to enroll in its premium assistance programs. Submitted: July 27, 2009 Approved: December 18, 2009 Effective: January 1, 2010.
State Plan Amendment #11: Expand Unborn population coverage to Benton, Clackamas, Hood River, Jackson and Lincoln counties. Submitted: August 26, 2009 Effective: October 1, 2009 This amendment also closes the expansion in Lincoln County effective December 31, 2009. Submitted: December 22, 2009 Approved: September 20, 2010 Effective: January 1, 2009