CMS Informational Bulletin: Ensuring Seamless Coverage Transitions Between Medicaid, Separate CHIPs, and Other Insurance Affordability Programs and Exercise of Enforcement Discretion to Delay Implementation of Certain Coverage Transition Requirements
On December 20, CMS issued an informational bulletin which provides guidance to help states effectuate a requirement that states seamlessly transition eligible children between Medicaid and separate CHIP beginning June 3, 2024. With this guidance, CMS is also exercising enforcement discretion and will not require state compliance with the following requirements until June 3, 2026: (1) that states send combined notices when a Medicaid-enrolled child is determined eligible for separate CHIP (and vice versa) , and (2) that states transfer accounts of individuals who are procedurally disenrolled from Medicaid or CHIP to the Marketplace.