Supporting Health Equity and Affordable Health Coverage for Immigrant Populations: CHIP Coverage Option for Pregnant Immigrants and their Children

This brief offers considerations for policymakers around the Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP) coverage as a method of enabling states to provide prenatal, labor and delivery, and postpartum services to pregnant individuals, regardless of immigration status. Under federal regulations, states may provide pregnancy-related care through the CHIP state plan to targeted low-income children from conception to birth (the so called “unborn child” option).