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Topic Medicaid (582) Marketplace (298) CHIP (231) Vulnerable Populations (52) Medicaid 2025 (37) Rural Health (17) HR1 Resources (9) Emerging Issues (8)

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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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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

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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

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Elisabeth Wright Burak
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How Can States Better Protect Consumers from Unexpected Health Care Charges?

Even when consumers do their best to obtain services from providers in their health plan’s network, they may still face unexpected charges. Unexpected bills may show up when a consumer goes to a network hospital for emergency care, but is treated by a physician or other health professional who is not in the health plan’s…

June 15, 2015

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Jack Hoadley
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Sustained Outreach is a Key to Success in Connecting Uninsured Kids to Coverage

Medicaid and CHIP have been instrumental in driving the uninsured rate for children to all time low. In recent years, however, this progress has stalled nationally and even reversed in some states. It’s no secret that sustained outreach is key to success in connecting uninsured kids to coverage. So we were particularly pleased that Congress…

May 29, 2015

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Tricia Brooks
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What, Exactly, is in that CHIP Extension?

It’s hard to believe it was just last month when Congress passed and President Obama signed the Medicare Access and CHIP Reauthorization Act (MACRA) of 2015, which extended CHIP funding for two additional years with no major structural or program changes. It funds the ACA’s 23%-point bump, extends CHIPRA’s child health quality provisions and outreach/enrollment…

May 27, 2015

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Elisabeth Wright Burak
Research & Reports

Medicare Access and CHIP Reauthorization Act of 2015: Summary of Key Provisions Impacting Children

On April 16th, President Obama signed into law the Medicare Access and CHIP Reauthorization Act of 2015 (MACRA), now Public Law 114-10, which provides new federal funding for the Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP) through 2017 and permanently adjusts the flawed Medicare physician payment formula to prevent cuts in reimbursements to Medicare providers. It also extends…

May 27, 2015

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Elisabeth Wright Burak
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GAO Report: Small Share of Medicaid Beneficiaries Account for Large Share of Cost

According to a study by the Government Accountability Office (GAO) – a congressional watchdog tasked with reporting on government programs for Congress – a small subset of Medicaid beneficiaries account for a disproportionately large share of Medicaid expenditures. Medicaid covers the very vulnerable populations of low-income people – many with disabilities – with high health…

May 18, 2015

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Alisa Chester
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Florida’s Medicaid Budget: Just the Facts

In Florida, as in other states, there is a great deal of misinformation about how much the state pays for Medicaid. The program is jointly administered by both states and the federal government, and the feds pay for a majority of Medicaid’s costs in all states. However, some of Medicaid’s opponents obscure the federal government’s…

April 29, 2015

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Alisa Chester
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New and Improved! A Special Enrollment Period for Some Caught in Medicaid Coverage Gap

As part of our Robert Wood Johnson Foundation-funded Navigator Technical Assistance project, we’ve helped Navigators and assisters answer tough questions from consumers. Many questions focused on special enrollment periods (SEPs), including a new “tax season” SEP that applied to individuals who learned about the requirement to have coverage only when they found out they were…

April 27, 2015

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JoAnn Volk
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Healthcare.gov Fixes System Glitch in Counting Social Security Income for Certain Tax Dependents

Earlier this week, Health Affairs ran a lengthy blog I wrote about how Healthcare.gov incorrectly counts Social Security income for tax dependents who are not required to file taxes. Policy experts and enrollment assisters had suspected the system glitch existed for some time before CMS confirmed the error in early March. Thankfully, the problem is…

April 21, 2015

By
Tricia Brooks
Blog

Permanent 90% Federal Funding for IT Systems Is a Must For States to Achieve Medicaid Modernization

Medicaid modernization is a popular term used by states to describe how they are moving into the digital age to streamline eligibility and enrollment and improve operational efficiency. Technology is at the center of this transformation but the fact that many states have held on to 30-year old mainframe systems suggests that states won’t keep…

April 21, 2015

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Tricia Brooks
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Navigator Grants for OE3 Announced

Today, CMS released the funding opportunity announcement (FOA) for a new round of navigator grants. As noted in my blog earlier this week, these grants will be awarded for a period of three years unlike annual awards in the prior two grant rounds. A total of $67 million will be awarded in the first year,…

April 15, 2015

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Tricia Brooks
Blog

3-Year Navigator Grants Will Provide Stability to Enrollment Assistance

A recent posting of a Paperwork Reduction Act (PRA) notice in the federal register details plans by CMS to tweak navigator entity reporting requirements, which I’ll say more about in a few minutes. But what really excited me about the notice – drumroll please – is that, in the supporting statement, CMS signaled its intent…

April 13, 2015

By
Tricia Brooks

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