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STATE CHILD HEALTH PLAN UNDER TITLE XXI OF THE SOCIAL SECURITY ACT

STATE: Virginia Page 5-22

Effective Date: 07/01/05

22 Approval Date: _____________/06 another number. A translator is conferenced in the call providing a three-way conversation between the call center representative, the translator, and the caller if a bilingual operator is not available.

Robert Wood Johnson Foundation -- “It’s a New Day for Child Health Insurance in Virginia” is the theme of the Virginia Health Care Foundation grant proposal. The Commonwealth supported the Virginia Health Care Foundation as the Lead Agency for the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, Covering Kids and Families Grant for FYs 2002-2005. The grant was awarded to the Virginia Health Care Foundation in July, 2002, and provides funding for three pilot programs to conduct innovative SCHIP outreach for four consecutive years. The three pilots represent a grassroots approach for statewide outreach. The goal of the three pilots is to enroll children into the CHIP program by identifying and overcoming enrollment barriers and developing effective community tailored outreach mechanisms. The three pilots are: United Way-Thomas Jefferson (Charlottesville, Albermarle, Fluvanna, Greene, and Louisa counties); CINCH (Norfolk, Portsmouth, Newport News, Hampton, Chesapeake, Suffolk, and Virginia Beach); and Radford University School of Social Work in conjunction with Partnership for Access to Health (Radford, Galax and counties of Carroll, Giles, Montgomery, Pulaski, and Wythe). Each pilot employs a multifaceted approach, collaborating with local hospitals, schools, churches, physicians’ offices, referrals from DSS offices, health districts, free clinics, school nurses/counselors, and local workforce development centers to identify uninsured children. In addition, the three pilots collaborate with state and local agencies, and other community-based organizations to reach eligible families in their respective areas. The Commonwealth does not receive in-kind contributions from the pilots. Any Title XXI funds provided to the pilots consist of the proportionate share of state and federal funds. No private entity funds are used to draw-down the Title XXI federal match through this program.

The Commonwealth has not received any gifts or in-kind contributions from the business community to support the Commonwealth’s Child Health Insurance Program. Any gifts, donations, or in-kind contributions that have been provided have been given directly to the outreach efforts (as described above) or have been provided directly to the grantees providing/supporting the outreach efforts. As stated above, none of these funds are used to draw- down the Title XXI federal match.

Virginia currently has no health insurance programs that involve a public-private partnership.