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House committee approves 12-month postpartum Medicaid expansion using CHIP HSI funds
Summary
The Public Health, Welfare and Labor Committee passed House Bill 1004 as amended to extend postpartum Medicaid coverage to 12 months for eligible Arkansas women by using CHIP HSI funds to cover the state share, a funding approach sponsors say will require no new state dollars.
State Representative Aaron Pilkington, the sponsor of House Bill 1004, told the House Public Health, Welfare and Labor Committee that the bill would extend postpartum coverage to 12 months for women up to 200 percent of the federal poverty level and that Arkansas is currently the only state that has not made that extension. Representative Aaron Pilkington, District 45, said Arkansas had seen coverage gaps that warranted action: “The most recent report actually showed that that's now increased to 4 out of 10 women in Arkansas.”
The amendment adopted before the committee hearing directs the state to use a portion of Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP) Health Services Initiative (HSI) funds to cover the state share of the extended postpartum…
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