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CHIP State Amendment Plans
Arizona
The state provides temporary policy adjustments in response to the COVID-19 public health emergency.
Approval Date: April 24, 2020
Effective Date: January 27, 2020
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Disaster Relief
Iowa
The state provides temporary policy adjustments in response to the COVID-19 public health emergency.
Approval Date: April 24, 2020
Effective Date: March 13, 2020
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Disaster Relief
Louisiana
The state provides temporary policy adjustments in response to the COVID-19 public health emergency.
Approval Date: April 24, 2020
Effective Date: March 1, 2020
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Disaster Relief
Rhode Island
The state provides temporary policy adjustments in response to the COVID-19 public health emergency.
Approval Date: April 24, 2020
Effective Date: March 16, 2020
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Disaster Relief
North Carolina
The state provides temporary policy adjustments in response to the COVID-19 public health emergency.
Approval Date: April 24, 2020
Effective Date: March 13, 2020
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Disaster Relief
Maine
Updates the CS21 SPA to provide temporary adjustments to the state’s premium lock-out period in response to disaster events. ME-20-0006-B provides temporary adjustments to the state's cost-sharing requirements, application and redetermination policies, verification requirements, and tribal consultation process in response to disaster events.
Approval Date: April 8, 2020
Effective Date: March 1, 2020
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Disaster Relief
Iowa
This SPA reduced the premium lock-out period from 90 days to 60 days. It also makes conforming changes to the state's disenrollment procedures in Section 8.7 of the CHIP state plan.
Approval Date: April 2, 2020
Effective Date: July 1, 2019
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Cost Sharing
Program Administration
Wyoming
This SPA demonstrates compliance with CHIP mental health parity regulations.
Approval Date: March 12, 2020
Effective Date: October 2, 2017
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Benefits
Kansas
Through this SPA, the state updates the supporting document for the CS7 page,
which describes the annual update to the upper income standard for CHIP.
which describes the annual update to the upper income standard for CHIP.
Approval Date: February 10, 2020
Effective Date: April 1, 2020
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Eligibility
Mississippi
This SPA demonstrates compliance with CHIP mental health parity regulations.
Approval Date: February 6, 2020
Effective Date: November 1, 2019
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Benefits