First State To Run Out Of CHIP Money This Month

This month, the first state will exhaust money to run the Children's Health Insurance Program, even with the help of carryover funding and redistribution payments, CMS states in guidance to state CHIP directors. The bulletin doesn't name the state. “Absent additional appropriations from Congress, we project that every state will exhaust federal funding at various points throughout federal fiscal year (FY) 2018, with the first state projected to exhaust all available federal CHIP funding, including carryover funding and redistribution payments,...