Yes. The CHIP enhanced FMAP will continue to be available for the expenditures for children shifted from CHIP to Medicaid, as long as their income is greater than the state's March 31, 1997 Medicaid income standard for children. In other words, if CHIP funding was available for this group of children when they were covered in a separate CHIP, it will continue to be available when the children are covered under Medicaid. The CHIP enhanced FMAP is available for uninsured children whose income exceeds that income standard, whether the children previously qualified for or were enrolled in a separate CHIP program or not.
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Will the expenditures for children currently enrolled in a separate CHIP whose income is up to 133 percent of the FPL, who are transitioned to the Medicaid program beginning January 1, 2014 under the mandatory eligibility group for poverty-level related children required under section 1902(a)(10)(A)(i)(VII) of the Act, be eligible for the CHIP enhanced FMAP after such transition?