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Issues : Children : Children's Health Insurance Program

Estimated State Allocations for Children's Health Insurance

This page was updated 8/14/97.

The following chart lists estimated child health grants allocated to states as part of the State Children's Health Insurance Program. The program was signed into law as part of the Balanced Budget on August 5, 1997. The second column of this chart indicates the grant amount each state will receive in each of three years (1998-2000). The third column indicates the total grant amount received by each state over five years. All estimates are subject to revision.

State

Yearly Grant
(1998-2000)

5-Year Total
(1998-2002)

Alabama

85,634,397

397,169,386

Alaska

5,152,005

26,817,821

Arizona

112,965,830

514,195,083

Arkansas

46,860,505

217,870,963

California

855,208,654

3,948,771,695

Colorado

43,219,361

206,415,456

Connecticut

36,017,176

175,702,750

Delaware

8,436,772

40,999,715

District of Columbia

14,372,424

69,364,013

Florida

279,202,492

1,299,468,802

Georgia

126,783,707

591,980,805

Hawaii

10,992,634

57,861,690

Idaho

15,694,892

77,175,430

Illinois

128,782,081

647,959,333

Indiana

73,093,951

357,067,818

Iowa

32,987,149

156,652,914

Kansas

31,433,507

153,406,005

Kentucky

50,701,096

248,465,757

Louisiana

101,768,262

470,559,230

Maine

12,724,728

61,849,068

Maryland

61,706,349

297,620,144

Massachusetts

45,229,971

230,979,943

Michigan

92,045,047

465,092,837

Minnesota

27,022,565

145,884,769

Mississippi

55,654,715

260,316,383

Missouri

59,268,396

290,102,752

Montana

9,739,680

47,240,320

Nebraska

15,448,224

76,931,309

Nevada

32,550,586

148,613,891

New Hampshire

10,910,006

52,050,469

New Jersey

91,592,766

434,664,765

New Mexico

56,753,577

253,472,309

New York

265,835,633

1,300,126,910

North Carolina

79,741,341

387,777,054

North Dakota

5,202,463

26,486,258

Ohio

114,442,019

578,480,413

Oklahoma

79,467,777

356,131,277

Oregon

41,881,622

203,699,898

Pennsylvania

123,329,744

612,739,716

Rhode Island

10,673,243

51,157,389

South Carolina

65,234,386

316,130,674

South Dakota

7,522,023

38,507,287

Tennessee

66,618,662

334,516,145

Texas

558,774,867

2,492,862,091

Utah

25,053,748

125,606,983

Vermont

3,959,814

21,240,764

Virginia

71,424,313

347,758,618

Washington

47,351,081

232,586,100

West Virginia

23,053,013

111,648,075

Wisconsin

37,300,536

194,563,002

Wyoming

7,492,707

34,632,721

Total

4,275,000,000

20,250,000,000

NOTE: The legislation calls for updating state counts of children in need annually based on a three-year average. Allocations for 1999-2002 assume the state proportions of children in need do not change compared to 1998 allocations, due to lack of data for future years. SOURCE: General Accounting Office initial estimates, August 12, 1997

 

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