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HHS awards $32 million in grants to sign up children for health coverage

Today social services and health services (HHS), Kathleen Sebelius announced nearly $ 32 million in grants for efforts to identify and enroll eligible children in Medicaid and the Children's Health Insurance Program (CHIP). Kids connect to cover the disclosure and tuition scholarships were awarded to 41 state agencies, community health centers, school-based organizations and non-profit groups in 22 states, two beneficiaries are multi-state organizations.

"Today's grants will ensure that more children across the country have access to quality health care they need," said Secretary Sebelius. "We take the health coverage of children to achieve success and efforts to help promote enrollment this fall on Medicaid and the new health insurance market."

Efforts to simplify Medicaid and CHIP enrollment and renewal practices, combined with robust outreach activities, have helped reduce the number of uninsured children. Since 2008, 1.7 million children have acquired the coverage and the rate of uninsured children has dropped to 6.6 percent in 2012.

Grants are made in five priority areas:

Schools involved in maintenance activities (9 price) awareness, registration and

Reducing disparities in health coverage, compared to children who are less likely to have health coverage (8 awards) groups;

Rationalization of registration for participants in other public benefit programs, such as nutrition assistance programs and others (3 awards);

Improve application resources to provide high quality, reliable and renovation services Medicaid and CHIP enrollment in local communities (13 awards), and

Communities training to help families understand the new application and registration system and provide effective assistance to families eligible for Medicaid or CHIP (8 prices) children.