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TennCare work requirements would cost taxpayers nearly $19 million each year, experts say

The Tennessean By: Anita Wadhwani Requiring people to work in order to keep government health insurance will hit low-income Tennessee parents, caregivers and children especially hard and cost the state more money than it saves, a panel of experts said Tuesday. … Joan Alker, executive director of Georgetown Center for Children and Families, said the…

February 7, 2019

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Lack of ACA Navigator Funding Leads to Consumer Confusion, Decreased Enrollment

Open Enrollment is over in most states, and enrollment numbers are down slightlyfrom 8.8 million plan selections on healthcare.gov for plan year 2018 to 8.4 million plan selections for plan year 2019. Navigators thought the 2018 Open Enrollment was challenging, after a slew of policy changes including massive Navigator grant funding cuts, shortened enrollment period, 90 percent cuts to federal…

January 25, 2019

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Olivia Hoppe

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Adam Searing

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The Proposed 2020 Notice of Benefit and Payment Parameters: Summary and Implications for States

On January 17, 2019 the U.S. Department of Health & Human Services (HHS) released its annual draft rule governing core provisions of the Affordable Care Act (ACA), including the operation of the marketplaces, benefit standards for health plans, and premium stabilization programs. Referred to as the “Notice of Benefit and Payment Parameters” or NBPP, the…

January 25, 2019

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Sabrina Corlette

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MACPAC Releases Medicaid Eligibility, Enrollment and Renewal Case Studies Examining New Data-Driven Processes

Before the holidays, MACPAC and its contractor, SHADAC, (the State Health Access Data Assistance Center at the University of Minnesota) released findings of a study that examined the status of the new data-driven enrollment and renewal processes enacted as part of the Affordable Care Act. The case studies report on how six states – Arizona,…

January 4, 2019

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Tricia Brooks

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CMS Announces New Connecting Kids to Coverage Outreach and Enrollment Grants

CMS announced the availability of $48 million in “Connecting Kids to Coverage” outreach and enrollment grants and not a moment too soon. As we recently reported, our nation’s progress on children’s health coverage actually reversed course last year registering the first statistically significant increase in the child uninsured rate in a decade. As a majority…

December 20, 2018

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Cathy Hope

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Hundreds of Thousands Weigh in on Proposed Public Charge Rule

This week, we joined over 215,000 individuals and organizations in commenting on the proposed rule to radically change the meaning of public charge. As a reminder, public charge is a term used in U.S. immigration law to refer to a person who is likely to become dependent on the government for financial and material support.…

December 12, 2018

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Kelly Whitener

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CMS Posts New Medicaid and CHIP Application Processing Time Report

Say Ahhh! readers know that I have long been frustrated at the delay in releasing state-level performance indicator data in Medicaid and CHIP. While CMS has posted enrollment and application data for some time, data on the remaining performance indicators – which were announced in September 2013 (that’s more than five years ago!) – have…

December 10, 2018

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Tricia Brooks

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How to maintain your perspective as Trump plays the immigration card (again)

Arizona Republic By: Linda Valdez What’s not legitimate? The scare tactics Trump uses to justify treating hard-working men and women – and their children – like a big-time threat to our jobs, our homes, our language and our way of life. One of those tactics is a proposed rule change by the Department of Homeland…

November 15, 2018

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Trump Administration Hands States Another Tool for Dismantling Preexisting Condition Protections

Last week, the Trump administration issued long-anticipated guidance regarding the Affordable Care Act’s Section 1332 “innovation waiver” program. The release rebrands and creatively reimagines the ACA program (they’re now “State Relief and Empowerment” waivers), breaking dramatically with past policy and, arguably, with the statute it purports to interpret. In the administration’s view, the ACA permits states to…

November 1, 2018

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Justin Giovannelli

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Adam Searing

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States Lean In as the Federal Government Cuts Back: Navigator and Advertising Funding for the ACA’s Sixth Open Enrollment

On November 1, the Affordable Care Act’s (ACA) insurance marketplaces will launch their sixth enrollment season. This year, the challenges they face may be greater than laster year, with the loss of the individual mandate penalty as an enrollment incentive and the emergence of a parallel, unregulated market that could siphon away healthy enrollees. Yet the Trump administration has…

October 29, 2018

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Sabrina Corlette

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Rachel Schwab

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Are you Ready for Open Enrollment? Updated Navigator Resource Guide will Help You Understand Policy Changes

On November 1, the sixth open enrollment period begins for marketplace coverage under the Affordable Care Act (ACA). We at the Georgetown University Center on Health Insurance Reforms will soon re-launch our updated Navigator Resource Guide, made possible by the support of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. The Guide provides information on recent policy changes, a list of enrollment…

October 26, 2018

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Emily Curran

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How Would Medicaid Provisions of New Law to Address Opioid Epidemic Impact Children?

Today President Trump signed the “SUPPORT for Patients and Communities Act” into law. SUPPORT is an acronym for “Substance Use—Disorder Prevention that Promotes Opioid Recovery and Treatment.” The bill, which passed with overwhelming bipartisan support in both the House (396-14) and the Senate (98-1), is 250 pages long. It affects a broad array of federal…

October 24, 2018

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Andy Schneider

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The Trump Administration’s Association Health Plans Emerge: What Early Announcements Tell Us About this New Market

This past summer, the Department of Labor (DOL) finalized a regulation calling for the expansion of association health plans (AHPs) for small businesses and self-employed individuals. AHPs are insurance policies offered through an association, often to members within a specific trade, industry, or profession. Among other changes, DOL’s rule loosened the requirements under which a group of employers…

October 12, 2018

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Emily Curran

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Adam Searing

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Administration Moves Forward with Proposed Public Charge Regulation; Comments Due in December

As we have long suspected, the Administration is moving forward with a proposed regulation to dramatically change our immigration system and significantly harm immigrant families. The Department of Homeland Security posted a draft version of the rule about two weeks ago, and just this morning the rule was finally posted for inspection in the Federal…

October 5, 2018

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Kelly Whitener

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While We Await Official Notice of Proposed Public Rules Changes, Here are Our Thoughts on Latest Version

On Saturday, September 22, the Department of Homeland Security posted an unofficial proposed regulation that would dramatically alter immigration law by broadening the definition of public charge and significantly harming immigrant families. Earlier this year, two related drafts were leaked to the press. Researchers documented the immediate, adverse impact on immigrant families and communities and…

September 28, 2018

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Kelly Whitener

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PolitiFact: Did Dino Rossi Take Away Health Care Coverage From 45,000 Children?

PolitiFact By: Manuela Tobias Did Dino Rossi, a Republican Washington state senator running for U.S. Congress, once take away coverage from 45,000 children? That’s what an attack ad by the House Majority PAC claimed. … Using data from the Medical Assistance Administration, the University of Washington Health Policy Analysis Program found most children leaving Medicaid…

September 21, 2018

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Thousands in Arkansas lose Medicaid because of new work requirements

CNN By: Tami Luhby As many as 4,600 Medicaid recipients in Arkansas have lost their benefits for the rest of this year after failing to meet the state’s new work requirements. … Consumer advocates, however, pointed to the results as proof that work requirements do not help people find jobs. They just add more hurdles…

September 7, 2018

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Dismissal of Co-Chair of Iowa Medicaid Advisory Panel is Setback for Much Needed Oversight

Medicaid is evolving. Its consumer advisory committees should too. State Medicaid programs are bureaucracies, and it’s understandable that agency leaders may not always have a pulse on what’s happening with members and providers and plans at any given moment. That’s why federal law has long required states to set up medical care advisory committees (MCACs),…

September 6, 2018

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Maggie Clark

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Growth in Medicaid Participation Rates of Uninsured Children Slows, while Parent Participation Rates Stall

In 2016, the percent of eligible, uninsured children enrolled in Medicaid and CHIP inched up from 93.1 percent to 93.7 percent, according to a new report in Health Affairs from researchers at the Urban Institute. The six-tenths of a percent increase between 2015 and 2016 follows two years of annual gains of greater than two…

August 29, 2018

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Tricia Brooks

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Analysis of Ohio’s report on Medicaid expansion

On Tuesday, August 21, the Ohio Department of Medicaid (ODM) released the second “assessment” of the Medicaid expansion as a follow-up to the first, General Assembly required, assessment from 2016. In this document the ODM found the following: EMPLOYMENT Employment for enrollees went up 15%, meaning 1 in 2 expansion enrollees are working The most common reason for…

August 24, 2018

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Loren Anthes

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Adam Searing

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