CHIP State Amendment Plans

This SPA demonstrates compliance with requirements in the American Rescue Plan Act of 2021 (ARP) that 1) mandate coverage of COVID-19 testing, treatment, and vaccines and their administration without cost-sharing or amount, duration, or scope limitations; and 2) require states to cover, without cost sharing, the treatment of conditions that may seriously complicate COVID- 19 treatment, during the period when a beneficiary is diagnosed with or is presumed to have COVID-19.

This SPA updates the CS29 Presumptive Eligibility for Pregnant Women eligibility template. 

This SPA updates the outreach strategies in sections 4 and 5 of the CHIP state plan. 

This SPA implements the Express Lane Eligibility option.

This SPA removes state-specific exceptions to continuous eligibility to comply with 42 CFR 457.342. 

This SPA demonstrates compliance with CHIP mental health parity regulations.

This SPA making technical changes to align its Evergreen Disaster Relief provisions approved through SPA CA-17-0043 with the updated Evergreen Disaster Relief SPA template released in March 2022.

This SPA demonstrates compliance with requirements in the American Rescue Plan Act of 2021 (ARP) that 1) mandate coverage of COVID-19 testing, treatment, and vaccines and their administration without cost-sharing or amount, duration, or scope limitations; and 2) require states to cover, without cost sharing, the treatment of conditions that may seriously complicate COVID- 19 treatment, during the period when a beneficiary is diagnosed with or is presumed to have COVID-19.

This SPA demonstrates compliance with requirements in the American Rescue Plan Act of 2021 (ARP) that 1) mandate coverage of COVID-19 testing, treatment, and vaccines and their administration without cost-sharing or amount, duration, or scope limitations; and 2) require states to cover, without cost sharing, the treatment of conditions that may seriously complicate COVID- 19 treatment, during the period when a beneficiary is diagnosed with or is presumed to have COVID-19.

This SPA provides Kansas with approval to provide 12 months of continuous postpartum coverage to individuals enrolled in its CHIP program.