The National Governors' Association (NGA) presents the Pennsylvania state summary of the State Children's Health Insurance Program (SCHIP). The central objective of SCHIP is to improve children's health status and reduce health disparities. The summary discusses the Pennsylvania program, called Pennsylvania Children's Health Insurance Program (PaCHIP), including eligibility levels, benefits, service delivery, the source of state match, and cost sharing.
Insure Kids Now offers information on the Children's Health Insurance Program (CHIP) of Pennsylvania, which offers health insurance to children who are presently uninsured. The program offers medical services, such as regular checkups, immunizations, prescription drugs, emergency care, dental care, and more. Insure Kids Now discusses eligibility, including the number of family members and the maximum annual income to be eligible.
America's Children is a comprehensive, easy-to-read analysis of the relationship between health insurance and access to care. The book addresses three broad questions: How is children's health care currently financed? Does insurance equal access to care? How should the nation address the health needs of this vulnerable population? America's Children explores the changing role of Medicaid under managed care; state-initiated and private sector children's insurance programs; specific effects of insurance status on the care children receive; and the impact of chronic medical conditions and special health care needs. It also examines the status of "safety net" health providers, including community health centers, children's hospitals, school-based health centers, and others and reviews the changing patterns of coverage and tax policy options to increase coverage of private-sector, employer-based health insurance. In response to growing public concerns about uninsured children, last year Congress voted to provide $24 billion over five years for new state insurance initiatives. This volume will serve as a primer for concerned federal policymakers and regulators, state agency officials, health plan decisionmakers, health care providers, children's health advocates, and researchers.
The American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) offers information on the State Children's Health Insurance Program (SCHIP), whose central objective is to improve children's health status and reduce health disparities. AAP highlights related fact sheets, what is covered in SCHIP, outreach, and SCHIP eligibility.
