205.6483 Kentucky Children's Health Insurance Program -- Purposes. - Kentucky Statutes

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Page 1 of 1 205.6483 Kentucky Children's Health Insurance Program -- Purposes. There is hereby created within the Cabinet for Health and Family Services the Kentucky
Children's Health Insurance Program (KCHIP) for the purposes of:
(1) Providing health care coverage and other coordinated services to children through the age of eighteen (18) years at or below two hundred percent (200%) of the
federal poverty level and who are not otherwise eligible for health insurance
coverage through either expansions of Medicaid services under Title XIX of the
Federal Social Security Act and through the provision of a separate health insurance
program under Title XXI of the Federal Social Security Act, or a combination of
Medicaid program expansions and use of a separate health insurance program; and (2) Providing Medicaid coverage for children between the ages of fourteen (14) and eighteen (18) years up to one hundred percent (100%) of the federal poverty level. Effective: June 20, 2005
History: Amended 2005 Ky. Acts ch. 99, sec. 260, effective June 20, 2005. -- Created 1998 Ky. Acts ch. 253, sec. 2, effective April 2, 1998.