Assistance program
Section 206 Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2024: State Planning Grants to Promote Continuity of Care for Medicaid & CHIP Beneficiaries
$38.7 Million committed in FY2025–FY2026
- Agency
- Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, Health and Human Services, Department of
- Assistance
- Not Applicable
- CFDA number
- 93.694
- What it does
- The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) is making available planning grants to state Medicaid and CHIP agencies to develop operational capabilities to promote continuity of care for individuals who are inmates of a public institution and are eligible for medical assistance under the state Medicaid program or are eligible for child health assistance or pregnancy-related assistance under the state Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP).
- Who benefits
- Not applicable.
- Who applies
- Only one application may be submitted for a given state or territory. The term “state Medicaid agency†means the single state agency for medical assistance provided under Title XIX and Title XXI of the Act while the term “state CHIP agency†means the state agency responsible for administering the state CHIP plan under Title XXI of the Act. Further, if a state administers their Medicaid and separate CHIP programs through separate agencies, both agencies must agree to work together and submit one application per state. A Tribal organization, if interested, must come under the auspices of and work with the state Medicaid or CHIP agency in the implementation of this initiative.
- Authorized by
- Section 206(a) of division G of the CAA, 2024, authorizes the Secretary to issue State Planning Grants to address operational barriers to complying with requirements described in sections 1902(a)(84)(A) and 2102(d) of the Act (42 U.S.C. 1396a(a)(84)(A)-(D), 1397bb(d)), which were…
- Program site
- http://www.medicaid.gov ↗
Committed by fiscal year
* FY2026 is year-to-date — the fiscal year is still in progress, so its total is still filling in. The striped band and dashed line mark that provisional stretch.
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How to read these numbers
- Committed through this program
Money committed under this assistance listing (its CFDA program), counted in the year each action happened.
- How it's paid
Most programs pay out one way — a grant, or a direct payment to individuals; the flow bar only appears when a program genuinely mixes types.
- Some recipients aren't itemized
For entitlement programs like Social Security and Medicare, the government reports one aggregate instead of naming tens of millions of people, so the recipient roster isn't part of the public record.
- Awards, counted once
An award count is the number of distinct awards with at least one action that year — each counted once, however many times it was amended.
- The colored bars
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Direct payments