Welcome to the Health Care Financing Administration's (HCFA) informational website on the State Children's Health Insurance Program (SCHIP). This site is intended to provide materials of interest to various audiences regarding the passage of SCHIP, also known as Title XXI, as part of the Balanced Budget Act of 1997.

Here are some informational materials on SCHIP that might be of interest to you:

SCHIP State Plan Submissions

• Status Report and State Contact Information - Updated as Received
• SCHIP Plan Activity Map
• SCHIP Plan Approval Information (Press Releases, Approval Letters, Fact Sheets, State Plans, Official Correspondence)
• SCHIP Annual Reports for Federal Fiscal Year 1998
• Department of Health and Human Services SCHIP Enrollment Status Report

Letters to State Officials

Outreach

• Insure Kids Now!
• Outreach Information Clearinghouse
• HHS Press Release - State Children's Health Insurance Program National Back-to-School Kick Off (September 22, 1999)

Title XXI Legislation

• Title XXI Summary from the Balanced Budget Act of 1997 (P.L. 105-33) - August 5, 1997
• Title XXI Legislation as amended by the D.C. Appropriations Bill (P.L. 105-100) - November 19, 1997

SCHIP Regulations and Allotment Notices

• Federal Register Notice: SCHIP Programmatic Proposed Rule (HCFA-2006-P) - November 8, 1999
• Federal Register Notice: SCHIP Financial Proposed Rule (HCFA-2114-P) - March 4, 1999 (Note: File "chipnprm.pdf" is in Adobe Acrobat format)
• Federal Register Notice: SCHIP FY 1998 Revised Reserved Allotments and FY 1999 Allotments - February 8, 1999 (Note: File "chip9899.pdf" is in Adobe Acrobat format)
• Final Notice from the Federal Register: State Children's Health Insurance Program; Reserved Allotments to States for Fiscal Year 1998; Enhanced Federal Medical Assistance Percentages - September 9, 1997

SCHIP-Related White House and Department Information

• Publication of Proposed Regulation Ensuring Patient Protections in the State Children's Health Insurance Program - November 1, 1999
• An Analysis of Implementation Issues Relating to SCHIP Cost-Sharing Provisions for Certain Targeted Low Income Children - Prepared by the George Washington University Medical Center, June 1999
• White House Press Releases on SCHIP
• Testimony of HCFA Administrator on SCHIP Before the Senate Finance Committee - April 29, 1999
• Statement of the HCFA Administrator on SCHIP Before the House Commerce Committee, Subcommittee on Health and Environment - September 18, 1998
• Report to the President: Interagency Task Force on Children's Health Insurance Outreach
  • View the report (Note: Due to the large size, this report takes approximately 6 minutes to load at 28.8kbs)
  • Download the report in compressed, self-extracting HTML format (chiprpt.exe - 142k)

Look for more materials coming soon!

If you have comments or suggestions about the SCHIP website, please direct e-mail to CHIPinquiry@hcfa.gov. We regret that due to the high volume of e-mail we receive, individual replies will not be possible. Please refer to the Status Report and State Contact Information webpage for State contacts. Thanks for your interest!

• Department of Health and Human Services
  
• Health Resources and Services Administration
• National Governors' Association Center for Best Practices
• USDA's Food and Nutrition Services
• Department of Education
• U.S. Census Bureau - Children Under 19 Years of Age, at or Below 200 Percent of Poverty and Without Health Insurance, Three Year Averages by State

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Last Updated December 13, 1999