Block Grant 2205KY5021

The Department of Health and Human Services Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services awarded a $1.445 billion Block Grant to the Commonwealth of Kentucky under the Children's Health Insurance Program (CHIP) for fiscal years 2022 through 2023. The Kentucky Cabinet for Health Services, as a sub-awardee of the Commonwealth, will maintain and expand child health assistance to uninsured, low-income children in Kentucky through September 2023. Consistent with the objective of the CHIP program, the funding will enable Kentucky to provide health coverage to children in families with incomes too high to qualify for Medicaid but too low to afford private coverage.