The Children's Health Insurance Program (CHIP) shares many of the verification provisions of Public Law 119-21 (P.L. 119-21) — originally H.R. 1, the Working Families Tax Cut Act — with Medicaid. For most states, CHIP is administered by the same agency that runs Medicaid, often by the same staff, but with different eligibility rules, different income thresholds, and different documentation requirements. The verification-cadence increase under P.L. 119-21 hits both programs at once.
Veridian Public operates a verification layer that supports both Medicaid and CHIP simultaneously, so state agencies don't have to stand up two parallel verification pipelines.
What we handle for CHIP
- Lawful enrollment verification — identity, citizenship, and immigration status review supporting state determinations.
- Redetermination at the new cadence — packaging the evidence states need to redetermine eligibility on the schedule P.L. 119-21 requires.
- Income verification & document collection — multi-source income evidence (employer, tax, self-reported) collected and classified for state review.
- NCOA crosswalk & address reconciliation — matching National Change of Address records against case files to keep contact data current.
- Coverage continuity outreach — multichannel outreach to children's families to reduce improper disenrollment during redetermination cycles.
- Multilingual outreach — language-of-record-matched outreach across the major languages spoken by CHIP families in each state.
- Audit-ready reporting — federal-review-ready documentation for every verification activity.
Coverage continuity — the operational priority for CHIP
CHIP covers children. A failed redetermination — a missing document, an unread notice, an out-of-date address — directly removes a child from health coverage. Coverage continuity is therefore the operational priority that distinguishes CHIP from other programs: verification work must be done and the family must be reached, with enough warning and enough channels that the case actually resolves.
Veridian's multichannel outreach model is designed around this constraint. We treat "could not reach" as a verification failure, not a closure trigger.
Engagement models
- Direct managed service — Veridian operates verification alongside your existing eligibility system.
- Subcontract to a prime — we work under existing state IT prime contracts.
- Hybrid platform & ops — software-only access for in-house verification teams.
Authoritative references
- Medicaid.gov — CHIP program overview
- Public Law 119-21 — full text (congress.gov)
- KFF — Medicaid & CHIP policy briefs
- MACPAC — Medicaid and CHIP Payment and Access Commission
- State Health & Value Strategies (SHVS)