Strategies to Ensure Continuous Coverage for Children at the End of the COVID-19 Public Health Emergency

As states address the end of the COVID-19 public health emergency (PHE), it is an opportunity to build on the success of continuous coverage under Medicaid and the Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP). This issue brief reviews the importance of continuity of coverage for all children and highlights state opportunities, through State Plan Amendments and 1115 demonstrations, to implement continuous enrollment policies.

This issue brief is one in a three-part series focused on improving access to health care coverage at the end of the PHE, see also:

• • Working With Community-Based Organizations and Individuals with Lived Experience to Support Continuity of Coverage at the End of the COVID-19 Public Health Emergency

• • Maintaining Telehealth Access to Medicaid-Covered Pediatric Services After the End of the COVID-19 Public Health Emergency