KRS 205.6483: Kentucky Children's Health Insurance Program -- Purposes.

There is hereby created within the Cabinet for Health and Family Services the Kentucky

Children's Health Insurance Program (KCHIP) for the purposes of:

(1) Providing health care coverage and other coordinated services to children through

the age of eightee n (18) years at or below two hundred percent (200%) of the

federal poverty level and who are not otherwise eligible for health insurance

coverage through either expansions of Medicaid services under Title XIX of the

Federal Social Security Act and through the provision of a separate health insurance

program under Title XXI of the Federal Social Security Act, or a combination of

Medicaid program expansions and use of a separate health insurance program; and

(2) Providing Medicaid coverage for children betwee n the ages of fourteen (14) and

eighteen (18) years up to one hundred percent (100%) of the federal poverty level.