What does FHIAP stand for?

Many large cities and most states have all of the details of their eligibility requirements for family health insurance assistance programs available online, and some even allow you to print the necessary paperwork for your application right off the web.

Over 85 percent of parents in a study of low-income Oregon families--whose children were disenrolled from the SCHIP Oregon Health Plan (OHP) or Oregon's premium-subsidy program, the Family Health Insurance Assistance Program (FHIAP)--said they would have kept their children in these programs, if possible.

State-funded medical coverage for children has spiked, thanks largely to outreach efforts to get more working-poor households on the Family Health Insurance Assistance Program.

1997: Family Health Insurance Assistance Program, or FHIAP, is created.

3 million cut): Elimination of the Family Health Insurance Assistance Program, which provides subsidies so working-poor families can buy health insurance Reduced dental benefits for 190,000 adults on the Oregon Health Plan A 17 percent reduction to Kitzhaber's Oregon Children's Plan, which was intended to screen all first-born children so those deemed at-risk for problems later in life can receive preventive services; cuts would delay implementation in some counties and reduce services to otherwise qualifying families Eliminate psychiatric day treatment facilities for emotionally disturbed children who don't qualify for Medicaid; a $5.