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Section 206 Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2024: State Planning Grants to Promote Continuity of Care for Medicaid & CHIP Beneficiaries (93.694)

Section 206 Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2024: State Planning Grants to Promote Continuity of Care for Medicaid & CHIP Beneficiaries (Assistance Listing 93.694) is run by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, part of the Department of Health and Human Services. It awarded $38.7 million in 29 grants from fiscal 2021 to 2025, about $1.3 million per award on average. No funding opportunity is open on Grants.gov right now.

The typical award was $1.3 million. Half of the 29 awards fell between $1.1 million and $1.5 million, and they ranged from $90,040 to $3.0 million.

Key findings

What the program funds

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) is making available planning grants to state Medicaid and CHIP agencies to develop operational capabilities to promote continuity of care for individuals who are inmates of a public institution and are eligible for medical assistance under the state Medicaid program or are eligible for child health assistance or pregnancy-related assistance under the state Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP).

From the federal Assistance Listing. Read the full listing on SAM.gov.

Open opportunities

No opportunity under this program is open or forecast on Grants.gov right now. Programs often post once a year, so the funding history below shows what to expect.

Past notices

Rules from the program listing

Who can apply

Only one application may be submitted for a given state or territory. The term “state Medicaid agency” means the single state agency for medical assistance provided under Title XIX and Title XXI of the Act while the term “state CHIP agency” means the state agency responsible for administering the state CHIP plan under Title XXI of the Act. Further, if a state administers their Medicaid and separate CHIP programs through separate agencies, both agencies must agree to work together and submit one application per state. A Tribal organization, if interested, must come under the auspices of and work with the state Medicaid or CHIP agency in the implementation of this initiative.

What the money can and cannot pay for

Funding is available for activities and expenses related to complying with the requirement that a state shall not terminate eligibility for medical assistance for individuals who are inmates of a public institution, for adopting Medicaid state plan options, or for promoting continuity of care following incarceration. Planning grant funding may not be used to: • provide medical assistance under a state Medicaid program or child health assistance or pregnancy-related assistance under a state CHIP to an individual, or otherwise directly administer health care services for an individual; or • build prisons, jails or other carceral facilities, or pay for prison, jail or other carceral facility-related improvements other than those improvements that are for the direct and primary purpose of meeting the health care needs of individuals who are o incarcerated and o eligible for medical assistance under the State Medicaid program or child health assistance or pregnancy-related assistance under the State CHIP;

Matching requirements

This program has no statutory formula. Matching requirements are not applicable to this assistance listing. This program has MOE requirements, see funding agency for further details. N/A

Deadlines

Contact the headquarters or regional location, as appropriate for application deadlines

Award range and average, in the agency's words

CMS will make a total of $108,300,000 million available to eligible applicants. Funds will be awarded to up to 56 recipients for a 4-year period of performance. Anticipated range of awards: $1 million to $5 million per recipient.

Quoted from the program's federal Assistance Listing. The notice of funding opportunity is the official source for each competition's rules.

Funding history and past recipients

From fiscal 2021 to 2025, Section 206 Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2024: State Planning Grants to Promote Continuity of Care for Medicaid & CHIP Beneficiaries (93.694) awarded $38.7 million across 29 grant awards, an average of $1.3 million per award.

Top states: Virginia ($3.0 million), Oklahoma ($2.7 million), Pennsylvania ($2.6 million), New Mexico ($2.5 million), Alaska ($1.7 million), Nevada ($1.6 million), Alabama ($1.6 million), Maine ($1.5 million), Puerto Rico ($1.5 million), Kentucky ($1.5 million).

Who usually wins

Almost all of the money went to state and local governments.

Recipient typeAwardsAmountShare
State and local governments29$38.7 million100%

By state

23 states have a page for this program: those that received at least $1 million or 10 awards.

Grants by recipient's state, fiscal 2021 to 2025
StateAwardsAmount
Virginia1$3.0 million
Oklahoma1$2.7 million
Pennsylvania1$2.6 million
New Mexico1$2.5 million
Alaska1$1.7 million
Nevada1$1.6 million
Alabama1$1.6 million
Maine1$1.5 million
Puerto Rico1$1.5 million
Kentucky1$1.5 million
Michigan1$1.4 million
Indiana1$1.3 million
Massachusetts1$1.3 million
North Dakota1$1.3 million
Utah1$1.3 million
Georgia1$1.2 million
Colorado1$1.2 million
Rhode Island1$1.2 million
Arkansas1$1.2 million
Minnesota1$1.1 million
Kansas1$1.1 million
New Hampshire1$1.1 million
Delaware1$1.0 million
District of Columbia1$803,150
West Virginia1$793,424
Illinois1$618,611
New Jersey1$354,174
South Dakota1$300,000
Nebraska1$90,040

Award amounts are federal obligations reported to USAspending.gov for fiscal 2021 to 2025; see how our data works.