CHIP Coalition Update:
"This week, U.S. House Republicans introduced a continuing resolution (CR) to fund the government through January 19, 2018. The CR included five years of funding for CHIP and the same CHIP policy, as well as the same partisan offsets, as the bill passed by the House in November, the CHAMPIONING HEALTHY KIDS Act. Those offsets include changes to Medicaid third party liability that could reduce access to high-value Medicaid services such as pediatric preventive care and care for pregnant women and cuts to the prevention and public health trust fund. Because these offsets are partisan, they will be unable to pass in the U.S. Senate.
This week, the Colorado Joint Budget Committee (JBC) held its hearing for the Department of Health Care Policy and Financing. At the hearing, the JBC discussed the possibility of an emergency supplemental request to allow the Department to use the CHP+ Trust Fund to continue to fund the CHP+ program through February or until Congress acts, as a short-term fix. This would also allow the Department to delay sending termination notices to families for another month, in hopes that Congress will act to extend CHIP funding before that time. The governor’s office would need to submit the supplemental request to the JBC. The JBC would need to make a decision on a supplemental request by Dec. 22 to avoid termination notices being sent to families at the end of December. Today, we sent a letter on behalf of the CHIP Coalition to Governor Hickenlooper, thanking him for his continued leadership on CHIP and urging him to submit an emergency supplemental request to the JBC by Dec. 20. A copy of the letter is here.
The Department has updated the Future of CHP+ website to indicate that termination notices will be sent to CHP+ families on or around December 29 if Congress has not acted. On the website, you can also view a sample of the cover letter that will be sent with the termination notices, and a sample of the termination notice will be posted soon."
Resources - new CHIP graphics for using on social media:
"This week, U.S. House Republicans introduced a continuing resolution (CR) to fund the government through January 19, 2018. The CR included five years of funding for CHIP and the same CHIP policy, as well as the same partisan offsets, as the bill passed by the House in November, the CHAMPIONING HEALTHY KIDS Act. Those offsets include changes to Medicaid third party liability that could reduce access to high-value Medicaid services such as pediatric preventive care and care for pregnant women and cuts to the prevention and public health trust fund. Because these offsets are partisan, they will be unable to pass in the U.S. Senate.
This week, the Colorado Joint Budget Committee (JBC) held its hearing for the Department of Health Care Policy and Financing. At the hearing, the JBC discussed the possibility of an emergency supplemental request to allow the Department to use the CHP+ Trust Fund to continue to fund the CHP+ program through February or until Congress acts, as a short-term fix. This would also allow the Department to delay sending termination notices to families for another month, in hopes that Congress will act to extend CHIP funding before that time. The governor’s office would need to submit the supplemental request to the JBC. The JBC would need to make a decision on a supplemental request by Dec. 22 to avoid termination notices being sent to families at the end of December. Today, we sent a letter on behalf of the CHIP Coalition to Governor Hickenlooper, thanking him for his continued leadership on CHIP and urging him to submit an emergency supplemental request to the JBC by Dec. 20. A copy of the letter is here.
The Department has updated the Future of CHP+ website to indicate that termination notices will be sent to CHP+ families on or around December 29 if Congress has not acted. On the website, you can also view a sample of the cover letter that will be sent with the termination notices, and a sample of the termination notice will be posted soon."
Resources - new CHIP graphics for using on social media:
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