West Virginia Healthy Kids and Families Coalition

WV CHIP Enrollment Report– February 2003
The new WV CHIP enrollment report lists the counties with the highest enrollment rates for WV CHIP and Medicaid.

The top 15 counties are:
Harrison– 99.9%
Pendleton– 99.0%
Brooke– 98.5%
Boone– 97.9%
Marshall– 97.5%
Doddridge– 96.4%
Kanawha– 96.4%
Wirt– 96.3%
Ritchie– 96.2%
Marion– 95.9%
Grant– 95.8%
Mason– 95.7%
Braxton– 95.6%
Ohio– 95.6%
Clay– 95.1%

The state average for covered children is 93.4%.

Total CHIP enrollment for February 2003 is 21,168 children and 151, 204 children are covered by
Medicaid.

Many DHHR Offices Do Not Accept Faxed Applications
CHIP/Medicaid outreach workers continue to experience frustration in trying to fax the joint Medicaid/CHIP application to local DHHR offices. While state policy encourages the use of fax and other types of electronic applications to speed the application process for CHIP and Medicaid, many local DHHR offices do not accept faxed applications or the documentation necessary to support an application. The good news is that DHHR is moving forward with a computer application to be implemented later this year. Outreach workers are concerned, however, that the computer application will not speed up the process as long as signatures and documentation of income cannot be received through fax but must continue to be provided in person or through snail mail.

County School Nurses Help Spread the Word
County School Nurses throughout the state have been a tremendous asset in enrolling West Virginia’s children in the Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP).

Partly because of the efforts of the Harrison County Nurses, that county has less than 1% of children without medical insurance. These efforts were recognized at a dinner on March 13 at Oliverio’s Restaurant in Bridgeport. All six nurses attended and were presented with Certificates of Appreciation, signed by Governor Wise and Sharon Carte, Director of WV CHIP. The nurses were pleased that the children of Harrison County are well covered for their health care needs and are encouraged to continue to distribute CHIP/Medicaid information to their students.

Marion County School Nurses have recently taken an active role in CHIP/Medicaid outreach efforts and are undertaking the great task of distributing CHIP/Medicaid information to all 8,000 school children in Marion County. This distribution will coincide with report card distribution probably before the end of this school year.

On behalf of WV CHIP, we would like to express our appreciation for the extra effort of the school nurses throughout our area and across the state.

May Outreach Training Session
The Outreach Committee meeting on May 21, 2020 will be used for a training/refresher session for all outreach
coordinators.

We will discuss the application process and qualifications for WVCHIP, Children’s Medicaid, and Pregnant Woman Medicaid.

The Full Coalition meeting that will follow at 1:00 will include a demonstration of the new
inROADS electronic application process.

We encourage all who are interested to participate. Lunch will be provided. Please respond if you plan to attend. Responses should be directed to:

Julie Greathouse
210 Brooks St., Suite 300
Charleston, WV 25301
(304) 558-2397
(304)558-0596-fax
jdg_outreach@hotmail.com