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Date: Monday, June 22, 1998 FACT SHEET Contact: HCFA Press Office (202) 690-6145
The Child Care and Medicare Guide: Partners for Healthy Children is designed to improve childrens' health by encouraging enrollment in Medicaid and the new Children's Health Insurance Program, known as CHIP. It explains Medicaid and CHIP benefits and activities so that child care programs, referral agencies, and other health professionals can determine when children are eligible and how to help them enroll. They can also use it to learn how to establish linkages with these programs so they can make sure children they serve are getting the health care coverage and services they need and deserve.
This guide has been produced through a collaboration between the Health Care Financing Administration (HCFA), which runs Medicaid in partnership with states, and the Administration on Children and Families (ACF). It is one of many cooperative efforts between these two federal agencies to link child care with health care. The guide is a tool to help child care programs, referral agencies, and other health care professionals facilitate enrollment of children in CHIP as well as Medicaid. The guide will be distributed today at the seventh Family Reunion Conference, hosted by Vice President and Mrs. Gore, in Tennessee. The guide includes: