CHIP: Removing Limits on Children's Dental Care
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In states that choose to cover pregnancy-related care through CHIP, the same ban on annual or lifetime dental dollar limits would apply to low-income pregnant women enrolled in that coverage. This only affects states that already opt into this optional CHIP benefit.
Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
Introduced in House
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Sen. Angela Alsobrooks and Rep. Nanette Barragán introduced the Ensuring Kids Have Access to Medically Necessary Dental Care Act to ban lifetime and annual dollar limits on CHIP dental benefits and require dental-only wraparound coverage for certain children.
The Ensuring Kids Have Access to Medically Necessary Dental Care Act would bar annual and lifetime dollar limits on CHIP dental benefits and require wraparound dental coverage in states where it is currently optional. The bill was introduced by Sen. Alsobrooks and Rep. Barragán.
The ADA and a coalition of 15 other oral health groups thanked lawmakers for introducing the Ensuring Kids Have Access to Medically Necessary Dental Care Act, which would prohibit lifetime and annual dollar limits on CHIP dental benefits and require wraparound coverage.
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Document Type
Congressional Bill
Official Title
Ensuring Kids Have Access to Medically Necessary Dental Care Act
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