Modern Healthcare

By Virgil Dickson

With federal funding for the Children’s Health Insurance Plan set run out in 2017, HHS has determined children can’t get comparable benefits and cost-sharing on the insurance exchanges set up under the Affordable Care Act.

As a result, HHS Secretary Sylvia Mathews Burwell suspended a provision of the healthcare reform law requiring states to develop procedures to automatically transition children who aren’t eligible for Medicaid from CHIP to exchange coverage if CHIP funding ends …

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