| State Children’s Health Insurance Program (SCHIP) Waiver | A State Children’s Health Insurance Program (SCHIP) Waiver. According to the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), states using the SCHIP can apply to the CMS to ask for a certain degree of flexibility in administering it. For example, Louisiana and other states affected by Hurricane Katrina (2006) were granted a waiver of certain federal requirements of the program so they could expedite care, offer additional SCHIP healthcare coverage for children, and better meet the needs of low-income evacuees. (See cms.hhs.gov/NationalSCHIPPolicy/.)
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