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In 2006, MAXIMUS helped Colorado’s CHIP+ increase enrollment by 14% in just six months. The following year, enrollment increased another 14%, with a 48% increase in the number of pregnant women taking advantage of CHIP+ benefits.

CHIP Consulting Services

The CHIP Reauthorization Act (CHIPRA) provides unprecedented opportunities for you to increase children’s access to health care in your state. However, these opportunities bring significant challenges with them. If your state is independently operating its CHIP program, you are most likely facing a rapid expansion and new enhancements that will require a partner who can ensure that your CHIP program achieves the benefits of the reauthorization.

As the nation’s most experienced administrative vendor for some of the nation’s most complex CHIP programs, MAXIMUS has a number of solutions that will help your program realize the opportunities in CHIPRA to increase access to health care for your state’s youngest citizens.

Meeting Federal Matching Requirements

In order to qualify for CHIPRA’s Performance Bonus Payment, your state must comply with at least five of the eight measures detailed in CHIPRA. MAXIMUS has the experience and expertise to help you overcome the challenges of meeting this "five of eight" rule so you can receive the federal match. We can also help by:

  • Bridging the gap in states with separate Medicaid and CHIP programs to ensure both programs meet CHIPRA rules, a requirement for federal match
  • Assisting with your financing plan, including identifying grant and funding sources in the CHIPRA program and locating and managing alternative funding
  • Performing a cost-benefit analysis of expanding your current enrollment and implementing a plan to maximize the Federal Performance Bonus Payment dollars
  • Analyzing your processes and technology, then utilizing best practices and lessons learned to redesign them to meet the "five of eight" rule
  • Providing full service CHIP eligibility and enrollment operations, as well as outreach and education services

Increasing Awareness, Growing Enrollment

CHIPRA provides new funding for the outreach and marketing efforts of your CHIP program to help you reach more children. MAXIMUS will help identify the new funding sources and then maximize them to ensure that every dollar spent on marketing and outreach is focused on reaching the children in your state.