2015 Kentucky Revised Statutes
CHAPTER 205 - PUBLIC ASSISTANCE AND MEDICAL ASSISTANCE
205.6483 Kentucky Children's Health Insurance Program -- Purposes.

Download as PDF 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.