SCHIP news and information

The chief financial officer of the CMS' Office of Financial Management had few answers to a host of questions from lawmakers about Medicare's secondary-payer regime during a congressional oversight hearing Wednesday.
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The political toxicity of proposals to change Medicare as part of deficit reduction efforts has increased the focus in Washington on possible cuts to Medicaid and the Children's Health Insurance Program.
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President Barack Obama has joined Republicans in putting spiraling healthcare costs squarely in his sights to attack the growth of the nation's debt.
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The State Children's Health Insurance Program, known as SCHIP or CHIP, is administered by HHS, providing matching funds to states for health insurance to families with children. It was designed to cover uninsured children in low-income families with incomes still too high to qualify for Medicaid.
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As regulators implement a laundry list of new enforcement techniques in the healthcare reform law, their goal is not only to discourage individual crimes, but to alter the whole value proposition for healthcare fraudsters.
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“One of the new (health reform) mandates is having an alarming effect on the insurance market. Insurers may not deny individual policies to children with pre-existing conditions. The rule could affect more than 80,000 minors in California who aren’t covered by their parents’...
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So the recession is officially over. Hurray (exclamation point omitted intentionally).
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