Asset Test: Medicaid & CHIP - No Asset Test Required

	No Asset Test Required	Notes

United States	47+DC Medicaid, 37 CHIP, 48 Aligned Medicaid and separate CHIP

Alabama	Medicaid and separate CHIP
Alaska	Medicaid	No separate CHIP program
Arizona	Medicaid and separate CHIP
Arkansas	Medicaid	No separate CHIP program
California	Medicaid and separate CHIP
Colorado	Medicaid and separate CHIP
Connecticut	Medicaid and separate CHIP
Delaware	Medicaid and separate CHIP
District of Columbia	Medicaid	No separate CHIP program
Florida	Medicaid and separate CHIP
Georgia	Medicaid and separate CHIP
Hawaii	Medicaid	No separate CHIP program
Idaho	Medicaid and separate CHIP
Illinois	Medicaid and separate CHIP
Indiana	Medicaid and separate CHIP
Iowa	Medicaid and separate CHIP
Kansas	Medicaid and separate CHIP
Kentucky	Medicaid and separate CHIP
Louisiana	Medicaid and separate CHIP
Maine	Medicaid and separate CHIP
Maryland	Medicaid	No separate CHIP program
Massachusetts	Medicaid and separate CHIP
Michigan	Medicaid and separate CHIP
Minnesota	Medicaid	No separate CHIP program
Mississippi	Medicaid and separate CHIP
Missouri	Medicaid and separate CHIP	In Missouri, children in families with income greater than 150 percent of the federal poverty line are subject to a “net worth” test of $250,000.
Montana	Medicaid and separate CHIP	Montana eliminated the asset test for children’s Medicaid, in October 2009.
Nebraska	Medicaid	No separate CHIP program
Nevada	Medicaid and separate CHIP
New Hampshire	Medicaid and separate CHIP
New Jersey	Medicaid and separate CHIP
New Mexico	Medicaid	No separate CHIP program
New York	Medicaid and separate CHIP
North Carolina	Medicaid and separate CHIP
North Dakota	Medicaid and separate CHIP
Ohio	Medicaid	No separate CHIP program
Oklahoma	Medicaid	No separate CHIP program
Oregon	Medicaid and separate CHIP	Oregon eliminated the asset test for CHIP in October 2009.
Pennsylvania	Medicaid and separate CHIP
Rhode Island	Medicaid	No separate CHIP program
South Carolina	Medicaid and separate CHIP	In South Carolina, families do not need to present proof of assets.
South Dakota	Medicaid and separate CHIP
Tennessee	Medicaid and separate CHIP
Texas	Medicaid and separate CHIP	In Texas, the CHIP asset test applies only to families with income above 150 percent of the federal poverty line.
Utah	Medicaid and separate CHIP	Utah counts assets in determining Medicaid eligibility for children older than age 6.
Vermont	Medicaid and separate CHIP	In Vermont, there is an asset test for children’s Medicaid and CHIP, however if the countable assets exceed the asset limit the children are eligible under the 1115 waiver, which has no asset test.
Virginia	Medicaid and separate CHIP
Washington	Medicaid and separate CHIP
West Virginia	Medicaid and separate CHIP
Wisconsin	Medicaid	No separate CHIP program
Wyoming	Medicaid and separate CHIP

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Notes:	Data as December 2009. In states with asset limits, the limit noted is for a family of three. "Regular" Medicaid refers to coverage under Medicaid eligibility standards for children in place prior to CHIP; states receive "regular" Medicaid matching payments as opposed to enhanced CHIP matching payments for these children.
Sources:	A Foundation for Health Reform: Findings of a 50 State Survey of Eligibility Rules, Enrollment and Renewal Procedures, and Cost-Sharing Practices in Medicaid and CHIP for Children and Parents During 2009. Data based on a national survey conducted by the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities for the Kaiser Commission on Medicaid and the Uninsured, December 2009. Available at http://www.kff.org/medicaid/7855.cfm. 2009 HHS Poverty Guidelines: http://aspe.hhs.gov/poverty/09poverty.shtml.
Definitions:	CHIP: Children's Health Insurance Program. Aligned Medicaid and separate CHIP: Indicates the number of states that have adopted a particular enrollment simplification strategy and have applied the procedure to both their children’s Medicaid program and their CHIP-funded separate program. States that have used CHIP funds to expand Medicaid exclusively are considered “aligned” if the simplified procedure applies to children in the “regular” Medicaid program and the CHIP-funded expansion program.

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