Joseph: the OP inquired about Child Health Plus as well. Additionally, you are sort of wrong. It’s one mish-mash with Medicaid. Below is from a 2012 article in Urban, I don’t think the two are more separate now, if any one besides Joseph is interested…
“Child Health Plus is administered by the New York State Department of Health (DOH), the single State agency that also has primary responsibility for managing Medicaid. This joint program administration by DOH has facilitated New York’s alignment of CHIP and Medicaid policies and operations over time, to the extent that the two programs are now, broadly speaking, quite comparable and better integrated than they have been at any point in the past. CHPlus continues to oversee its innovative community-based application assistance program—called Facilitated Enrollment—that supports both CHIP and Medicaid enrollment, and is demonstrably effective in leveraging the marketing expertise of public and private managed care organizations to facilitate families’ enrollment of their children into coverage, and to maintain continuity of coverage through effective renewal strategies. On the service delivery front, statewide managed care systems that possess nearly identical networks for CHIP and Medicaid appear to provide children with robust access to care—especially primary care—and also minimal disruptions in care as children move between the two programs.”
Hope you gained some perspective.
And thanks Mods.