Section 205.6483 - Kentucky Children's Health Insurance Program - PurposesThere 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:6/20/2005
Amended 2005, Ky. Acts ch. 99, sec. 260, effective6/20/2005. -- Created 1998, Ky. Acts ch. 253, sec. 2, effective 4/2/1998.