Seed Grants to States for Qualified High-Risk Pools

The summary for the Seed Grants to States for Qualified High-Risk Pools grant is detailed below. This summary states who is eligible for the grant, how much grant money will be awarded, current and past deadlines, Catalog of Federal Domestic Assistance (CFDA) numbers, and a sampling of similar government grants. Verify the accuracy of the data FederalGrants.com provides by visiting the webpage noted in the Link to Full Announcement section or by contacting the appropriate person listed as the Grant Announcement Contact. If any section is incomplete, please visit the website for the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, which is the U.S. government agency offering this grant.

Seed Grants to States for Qualified High-Risk Pools: The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) will make grants available from the appropriations authorized under section 2745(d)(1)(A) of the Public Health Service Act (PHS Act) for the costs of creation and initial operation of qualified high-risk pools by States that had not created such a pool as of February 10, 2006, the date of enactment of the State High-Risk Pool Funding Extension Act of 2006. A qualified high-risk pool, as defined in sections 2744(c)(2) and 2745(g) of the PHS Act, is a risk pool that: (a) provides to all eligible individuals health insurance coverage (or comparable coverage) that does not impose any pre-existing condition exclusion with respect to such coverage for all eligible individuals, except that it may provide for enrollment of eligible individuals through an acceptable alternative mechanism (as defined for purposes of section 2744) that includes a high-risk pool as a component, and (b) provides for premium rates and covered benefits for such coverage consistent with standards included in the National Association of Insurance Commissioners Model Health Plan for the Uninsurable Individuals Act that was in effect at the time of the enactment of the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (August 21, 1996).