Medicaid and SCHIP: Recent HHS Approvals of Demonstration Waiver Projects Raise Concerns (GAO-02-817)

July 2002 Medicaid and SCHIP: Recent HHS Approvals of Demonstration Waiver Projects Raise Concerns (GAO-02-817) States provide health care coverage to about 40 million uninsured, low-income adults and children under two federal-state programs--Medicaid and the State Children's Health Insurance Program (SCHIP). To receive federal funding, states must meet statutory requirements, including providing certain levels of benefits to specified populations. Under section 1115 of the Social Security Act, the Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS) can waive many of the statutory requirements in the case of experimental, pilot, or demonstration projects likely to promote . . .