Becker's Healthcare June 1, 2023
The Children’s Health Insurance Program now enrolls more than 7 million children, but it began as a collaboration between neighbors in Western Pennsylvania.
After the collapse of the steel industry in the early 1980s, churches, unions and other community organizations began raising money to fund medical coverage for children left uninsured. Highmark Health — then Blue Cross Blue Shield of Western Pennsylvania — matched these funds and administered the first health insurance program for at-risk children.
Highmark is celebrating 30 years of CHIP, the federal program designed to cover children whose families do not qualify for Medicaid but do not have other forms of insurance, in 2023. Pennsylvania created a state version of the program in 1992 that...
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