208.631. Program established, terminates, when--definitions.

MISSOURI STATUTES AND CODES

208.631. Program established, terminates, when--definitions.

Program established, terminates, when--definitions.

208.631. 1. Notwithstanding any other provision of law to thecontrary, the MO HealthNet division shall establish a program to pay forhealth care for uninsured children. Coverage pursuant to sections 208.631to 208.659 is subject to appropriation. The provisions of sections 208.631to 208.569*, health care for uninsured children, shall be void and of noeffect if there are no funds of the United States appropriated by Congressto be provided to the state on the basis of a state plan approved by thefederal government under the federal Social Security Act. If funds areappropriated by the United States Congress, the department of socialservices is authorized to manage the state children's health insuranceprogram (SCHIP) allotment in order to ensure that the state receivesmaximum federal financial participation. Children in households withincomes up to one hundred fifty percent of the federal poverty level maymeet all Title XIX program guidelines as required by the Centers forMedicare and Medicaid Services. Children in households with incomes of onehundred fifty percent to three hundred percent of the federal poverty levelshall continue to be eligible as they were and receive services as they didon June 30, 2007, unless changed by the Missouri general assembly.

2. For the purposes of sections 208.631 to 208.659, "children" arepersons up to nineteen years of age. "Uninsured children" are persons upto nineteen years of age who are emancipated and do not have access toaffordable employer-subsidized health care insurance or other health carecoverage or persons whose parent or guardian have not had access toaffordable employer-subsidized health care insurance or other health carecoverage for their children for six months prior to application, areresidents of the state of Missouri, and have parents or guardians who meetthe requirements in section 208.636. A child who is eligible for MOHealthNet benefits as authorized in section 208.151 is not uninsured forthe purposes of sections 208.631 to 208.659.