State eyes Congress as Children’s Health Insurance Program spends final dollars
More than 27,000
CHIP funding had expired on
"We are looking for other mechanisms that we can use" should
It's still unclear how much state funding might be requested, Phinney says, but the federal share of
Other solutions include a bill, sponsored by Sen.
Heather Korbulic, executive director of
"We have been working and collaborating with Medicaid and with the governor's office," she said. "As a backup plan, should those funds go away, should we not be able to allocate state resources for those people, then the exchange and Medicaid would be communicating and getting those people enrolled as appropriate."
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