House of Representatives Votes for CHAMPIONING HEALTHY KIDS Act, H.R. 3922

Today, the House of Representatives voted 242-174 to approve the CHAMPIONING HEALTHY KIDS Act, H.R. 3922. This legislation included essential funding for Federally Qualified Health Centers (FQHCs or community health centers), the Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP), and various other crucial public health programs including the National Health Service Corps, Teaching Health Center Graduate Medical Education, Family-to-Family Health Information Centers, the Youth Empowerment Program, and the Personal Responsibility Education Program,

The legislation will reauthorize the CHIP Program for 5 years, but will reduce the federal-state partnership funding levels to pre-Affordable Care Act Medicaid expansion levels. The bill also eliminates planned FY2018 reductions for Disproportional Share Hospital (DSH) payments, but extend DSH reductions through FY2026 and FY2027.

will continue to monitor these bills and other related legislation and we will update the blog with more information as it becomes available.