children's health insurance

Part 3 of a series: Kicked off of Medicaid, Florida children with medically complex needs are offered a state insurance program designed for healthy kids who cannot provide the care they require.

Part 2 in a series: After thousands of families lost Medicaid, many enrolled their children with complex needs in Florida Healthy Kids, a state insurance plan that wasn’t meant to cover their special care.

The judge dismissed the state's lawsuit against two federal agencies and said the case should instead be an administrative challenge. Next stop is the 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Atlanta.

The Biden administration is requiring states give CHIP beneficiaries 12 months of continuous coverage, even if families don't pay monthly premiums. State lawyers say premiums are needed for expansion of coverage signed into law last year.

The December update shows that over 911,000 Floridians were disenrolled from Medicaid since DCF began its redetermination process in April. Of that total, about 420,000 were children.

The number and rate of uninsured children continued to increase in Florida and across the nation in 2018, according to a report released today by…

Florida Covering Kids & Families has for 11 years received state funding to conduct outreach for the Florida KidCare health-insurance program for…

Florida may have a plan to address the increasing number of children who lack health insurance, but it remains to be seen whether the proposal will get…

The Trump administration has proposed expanding a policy that would deny green cards to immigrants who access certain public benefits, like food stamps...

A Florida Senate committee approved a bill Monday that would streamline a state children's health insurance program, even though Congress has yet to…