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Topic Medicaid (575) Marketplace (292) CHIP (228) Vulnerable Populations (52) Medicaid 2025 (37) Rural Health (15) HR1 Resources (8) Emerging Issues (6)

Subtopic Enrollment Assistance (145) Eligibility & Enrollment (137) Waivers (85) Financing (83) Unwinding Continuous Coverage (63) Maternal & Early Childhood Health (38) Affordability (36) Managed Care (22) coronavirus (22) Early Childhood (20) Schools (18) Mental Health (18) Benefits & Services (18) Expansion (17) Improving Systems (15) Preserving Coverage (13) Immigrant Families (12) Access (11) Quality & Access to Care (10) Work Reporting Requirements (9) Outreach (9) Comments on Federal Regulations (9) Laws and Regulations (7) Future of Kids (7) Coverage Initiatives (6) EPSDT (5) Health Equity (4) Premiums & Cost-sharing (4) Data Visualizations (4) Special Health Needs (3) Resources in Spanish (3) Research (3) Recent Unwinding Updates (3) Puerto Rico Health Care (3) Drug Costs (3) Children's Health Coverage (3) telehealth (2) social determinants of health (2) Foster Youth (2) Continuous enrollment (2) Tax Credits (1) Program Integrity (1) Pre-Existing Conditions (1)

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Targeted Medicaid Enrollment Reaches More Kids

By Suzanne Wikle, CLASP The rate of children without health insurance has hit an all-time low of 6 percent, according to a new report from the Center for Children and Families. The drop is largely attributable to the Affordable Care Act (ACA) and to states’ efforts to increase enrollment. States that have opted to expand Medicaid…

November 3, 2015

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Healthcare.Gov Promises a Snazzier Production for OE3

Yesterday marked the debut of the third open enrollment period for the Health Insurance Marketplaces, including Healthcare.gov, which is the storefront to the Marketplace in 37 states. Has the performance improved? What new bells and whistles will delight the audience? Faster lines at the box office. Although it looks the same to consumers, new account…

November 2, 2015

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Tricia Brooks
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Nondiscrimination and the Affordable Care Act

The Office for Civil Rights at the Department of Health and Human Services released a proposed rule on Section 1557 of the Affordable Care Act on September 8, 2015. Section 1557 prohibits discrimination on the basis of race, color, national origin (including immigration status and English language proficiency), sex, age, or disability in any program…

October 29, 2015

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Kelly Whitener
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CMS Issues Long-Awaited Medicaid Access Regulation

Today CMS issued the long-awaited final rule on access to covered Medicaid services. The rule describes the requirements under section 1902(a)(30)(A) of the Social Security Act, known as the “access requirement.” The access requirement provides that states must have methods and procedures to assure that payments to providers are “sufficient to enlist enough providers so…

October 29, 2015

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Kelly Whitener
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Wondering What Marketplace Rate Increases Mean for Consumers?

Yesterday, CMS announced that premium costs for 2016 Silver benchmark plans (that’s the second lowest cost Silver plan) will increase by an average of 7.5% compared to 2015. However, there is significant variability in the differences ranging from an average 12.6% drop in premiums in Indiana (yes, that’s minus 12.6%) to an average increase of…

October 27, 2015

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Tricia Brooks
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Half of the Uninsured are Eligible for ACA Coverage

by Jordan Messner, Graduate Research Intern The Kaiser Family Foundation published a report on October 13 examining the uninsured population in the United States and their options for coverage under the Affordable Care Act (ACA). The report found that although 32.3 million nonelderly people were uninsured at the beginning of 2015, 49% of these individuals (15.7…

October 16, 2015

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Taking it to the streets: New ways to get uninsured kids enrolled in Medicaid and CHIP

by Sheila Hoag, Senior Researcher, and Debra Lipson, Senior Fellow, Mathematica Policy Research Traditionally, state and local Medicaid and Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP) staff have conducted outreach to uninsured children eligible to help enroll them into these public coverage options. Advocates have also organized public education campaigns and enrollment events. Despite dramatic progress in…

October 14, 2015

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More People Have Health Coverage in Every State Thanks to ACA; Yet Some of the Poorest are Being Left Behind

by Suzanne Wikle, Projector Director, Advancing Strategies for Aligning Programs, CLASP When President Obama signed the Affordable Care Act (ACA) into law, advocates hailed it as the most important health legislation since the creation of Medicaid and Medicare in 1965 — and one of the most important anti-poverty laws in decades as well. The monumental…

October 8, 2015

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Guest
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Arkansas’s Health Care Reform Forum: Medicaid Expansion and the Private Option

How has the Affordable Care Act and health care reform directly affected consumers and access to health care? How does Medicaid expansion relate to the broader health reform effort? How has Arkansas’s Private Option affected the state’s health care system? What makes a premium assistance model appealing for health care Arkansas and other states? These…

October 8, 2015
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Many working parents in Georgia would benefit from closing health coverage gap

by Cindy Zeldin, Executive Director, Georgians for a Healthy Future It’s often assumed that if you have a job, you have health insurance. That’s not the case for many working families in Georgia, though, because our state leaders haven’t accepted the federal funding set aside for us to extend cost-effective Medicaid coverage to more uninsured…

October 2, 2015

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More than 400,000 Lose Marketplace Coverage: Let’s Fix This and Keep People Covered

Along with the headline yesterday that nearly 10 million consumers paid their premiums and had an active marketplace health insurance policy as of the end of June 2015, there was very disappointing news. The federally facilitated marketplace (FFM) already terminated overage for about 423,000 people with 2015 coverage who had immigration or citizenship status data matching…

September 9, 2015

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Sonya Schwartz
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CMS Awards $67 Million to Assist Consumers with Accessing Coverage OE3 and Beyond

Let’s face it. Health insurance is complex, even for those of us who have worked in the field for years. Combine that with applying for means-tested financial assistance (through systems that are still being debugged), and there is no doubt that it can be a frustrating experience for consumers. Numerous studies have illustrated the critical…

September 3, 2015

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Tricia Brooks
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Unintended Consequences of the ACA: Retraction of Medicaid Eligibility for Parents in Connecticut

By Sharon Langer, Connecticut Voices for Children Research has consistently demonstrated that insuring parents is good for their health and their children’s. Children of parents insured through Medicaid are more likely to be covered and receive regular check-ups. In 2007, when Connecticut aligned its Medicaid income limit for parents and children at 185% FPL it…

August 27, 2015

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Consumer Assistance and Tools Needed to Ensure that All Eligible Marketplace Enrollees Get Cost-Sharing Reductions

Many of us have been asking this question for months: How many people who purchased coverage through the Marketplaces missed out on lower cost sharing because they did not enroll in a Silver plan? Now we have an estimate thanks to a new analysis by Avalere Health. Avalere’s headline – “More than 2 Million Exchange Enrollees…

August 27, 2015

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Tricia Brooks
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Proposed Rule Will Improve Medicaid Managed Care

After much anticipation, CMS published a notice of proposed rulemaking on Medicaid and CHIP managed care early this summer. The proposed rule includes many changes centering around five principles: alignment with other coverage options; delivery system reform; payment and accountability improvements; beneficiary protections; and modernizing regulatory requirements and improving the quality of care. It also…

August 10, 2015

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Tricia Brooks
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Getting Ready for OE3 – New Kaiser Family Foundation Survey Provides Helpful Lessons

By Hannah Ellison and Sabrina Corlette, Georgetown University Center on Health Insurance Reforms It’s the dog days of August and many of us are in beach mode, but we at CHIR are getting geared up. We’re just 12 weeks away from the start of the third open enrollment period (OE3) for the Affordable Care Act’s health…

August 7, 2015

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Sabrina Corlette
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State and National Experts Convene to Discuss Early Childhood Developmental Screenings and Referrals

By Carrie Fitzgerald, Vice President of Children’s Health Programs at First Focus, Here’s something almost everyone who reads this blog already knows: the first three years of a child’s life are a critical time for brain development. Our brains are most adaptable during early childhood, and early intervention and treatment for conditions, disorders, and developmental…

August 3, 2015

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Guest
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King v Burwell: An Exercise in Sound and Fury Signifying Nothing

By Tim Westmoreland, Georgetown University O’Neill Institute for National and Global Health Everyone within reach of an electronic device already knows that the Supreme Court has upheld the Affordable Care Act (ACA) again today. Tax subsidies can continue to assist low-income people in States that do not establish their own insurance exchanges. The death spiral…

June 26, 2015

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First Peek at Health Coverage Rates Post-ACA: Uninsurance Drop in 2014

Hot off the press! Today we get our first look at annual insurance coverage data from the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) for 2014 and the results are in: fewer people were uninsured in 2014—the first year of full ACA implementation— than 2013. Children and adults in Medicaid expansion states had lower rates of uninsurance.…

June 23, 2015

By
Alisa Chester
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Waiting on King… what’s at stake?

It feels like déjà vu. The health policy world is waiting on pins and needles to see what the Supreme Court has to say about the viability of the Affordable Care Act. On possible decision days, all browsers are pointed to SCOTUSblog.com. But this time we are waiting for a decision in King v. Burwell…

June 17, 2015

By
Elisabeth Wright Burak

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