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99 CIS S 36141
TITLE:
Implementation of the State Children's Health Insurance Program
CIS-NO: 99-S361-41
SOURCE: Committee on Finance. Senate
DOC-TYPE: Hearing Retrieve
the full text of testimony
DOC-NO: S. Hrg. 106-111
DATE: Apr. 29, 1999
LENGTH: iv+64 p.
CONG-SESS: 106-1
ITEM-NO: 1038-A; 1038-B
SUDOC: Y4.F49:S.HRG.106-111
SUMMARY:
Hearing to examine implementation of
Social Security Act Title XXI State children's health insurance
program (CHIP), established under the Balanced Budget Act of 1997 to assist
States in providing health insurance coverage to
uninsured, low-income children who are not eligible for
medicaid, by expanding medicaid eligibility or establishing separate insurance
programs.
Supplementary material (p. 33-64) includes witnesses'
written statements and replies to Committee questions and submitted statements.
CONTENT-NOTATION: Child health
insurance program, implementation review
DESCRIPTORS:
CHILD WELFARE; FEDERAL AID TO STATES-PUBLIC
WELFARE PROGRAMS; FEDERAL AID TO STATES-HEALTH.AND.MEDICINE;
SOCIAL SECURITY ACT; HEALTH INSURANCE; BALANCED BUDGET ACT;
MEDICAID
99-S361-41 TESTIMONY NO: 1 Apr. 29, 1999 p.
4-12, 44-52
WITNESSES (and witness notations):
MIN DEPARLE, NANCY-ANN (Administrator,
Health Care Financing Administration)
STATEMENT
AND DISCUSSION:
Status of and outlook for CHIP
implementation; issues related to CHIP enrollment eligibility guidelines,
including response to concerns that CHIP discourages employer-sponsored
health insurance coverage.
CONTENT NOTATION:
Child health insurance program,
implementation review
TESTIMONY DESCRIPTORS:
HEALTH CARE FINANCING ADMINISTRATION
99-S361-41 TESTIMONY NO: 2 Apr. 29,
1999 p. 13-43
WITNESSES (and witness notations):
ARNOLD, JUDITH A. (Deputy Commissioner, Planning and
Policy, New York State Department of Health)
EDWARDS, BARBARA C. (Deputy Director, Office of Medicaid,
Ohio Department of Human Services)
MANN, CINDY (Senior
Fellow, Center on Budget and Policy Priorities)
CORRIGAN,
JANET M. (Director, Division of Health Care Services, Institute
of Medicine)
STATEMENTS AND DISCUSSION:
Merits of CHIP, citing increased number of children with
health insurance coverage since program implementation in
represented States; need to expand CHIP enrollment eligibility guidelines to
provide health insurance coverage to more children;
recommendations to improve CHIP program administration.
CONTENT
NOTATION:
Child health insurance program,
implementation review
TESTIMONY DESCRIPTORS:
NEW YORK STATE DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH;
INSTITUTE OF MEDICINE 
