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Improving Enrollment for Immigrant Families Could Cut the Number of Uninsured Kids in Half

It’s hard to believe that the next open enrollment period is only 5 months away. As the federal marketplace and states work to fix enrollment challenges, it’s important to consider what groups are most likely to be uninsured and smooth their pathway to coverage. A study recently came out that makes it clear that enrollment…

June 5, 2014

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Sonya Schwartz

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Fulfilling the ACA’s Promise

There is no doubt that families are much better off than they were before the Affordable Care Act (ACA) was enacted. Young adults, the most likely age group to be uninsured, can stay on their family’s health plan. Children with cancer will no longer exceed their annual limit on costs or max out their lifetime…

June 3, 2014

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Tricia Brooks

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Open Enrollment – Take 2

The next Marketplace open enrollment will be part sequel and part new production! With a mere 166 days until show time, there’s much to be done to get ready for the next curtain call on November 15, 2014. First, a look back is in order because there’s nothing like a full dress rehearsal to learn…

June 2, 2014

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Tricia Brooks

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Lessons Learned from CHIP Can Apply to Next Phase of ACA

By Gene Lewit The open enrollment period for Marketplace coverage under the Affordable Care Act (ACA) has ended and supporters of the legislation are finished celebrating the accomplishment of exceeding enrollment goals despite a rocky start. Nonetheless, this continues to be an important time for ACA outreach and enrollment efforts. Enrollment in Medicaid and the…

May 26, 2014

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New Survey by Enroll America Provides Insights into ACA Implementation

A new PerryUndem survey commissioned by Enroll America and funded by The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation contributes new information to the discussion about the Affordable Care Act. It’s a fairly extensive survey and I encourage you to read it in full if you have time. What I found most interesting was the positive response to…

May 22, 2014

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Cathy Hope

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New Rules Protect Navigators and Certified Application Counselors from Over-Reaching State Laws but Also Impose New Requirements

Last week, CMS finalized rules that were proposed in March with a few modifications, some good and some not so good. The rules impact navigators, in-person assisters and certified application counselors (CACs) (collectively known as assisters) as summarized below. 1) Pre-empting certain aspects of state laws that restrict navigator and assisters. States are not precluded…

May 21, 2014

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Tricia Brooks

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Governor Pence Announces Plans to Expand Medicaid to Hoosiers in the Coverage Gap through Healthy Indiana 2.0

In what I think is a very significant political development, Governor Mike Pence announced his intention to submit a Section 1115 Medicaid waiver proposal to the federal government by the end of June, which would extend coverage to the newly eligible parents and adults below 133% of the federal poverty line. One reason Indiana was…

May 16, 2014

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Joan Alker

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Delaying Renewals – Still an Option for States

By Martha Heberlein An option provided by CMS to states to delay renewals so that they wouldn’t be running eligibility the old and new way, has a second purpose as states face processing back logs and fixing systems glitches. Taking a step back – the ACA requires that existing beneficiaries be protected against losing coverage…

May 14, 2014

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Without CHIP, Low-Income Arizona Families Face High Costs for Children’s Health Coverage

Before the Affordable Care Act (ACA) became law, Arizona began the process of dismantling its CHIP program when it froze enrollment in KidsCare in January 2010. Enrollment was temporarily reinstated in May 2012, extending coverage to 47,000 children at the peak of KidsCare II. Thanks to the ACA’s alignment of children’s Medicaid eligibility across all…

May 7, 2014

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Tricia Brooks

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Schools Play Important Role in Connecting Kids to Coverage

Donielle Rooks, CCHI Program Coordinator The idea that schools are a link to successful children and families is not new. Growing up, my parents received all types of information from my school about academics, fundraisers, before and after school programs and community organizations that helped provide basic services. Most families understood that if they had…

May 2, 2014

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Washington State’s Network Adequacy Rules: A Step Forward for Children and Families

Washington state’s network adequacy rules, finalized yesterday, attempt to strike a balance between ensuring that consumers have access to care and allowing plans the flexibility to try innovative networks and keep costs down, but they certainly did not please everyone! Health plans have argued that the rules are administratively burdensome and onerous. Providers, including children’s…

April 29, 2014

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Sonya Schwartz

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Experience of Ohio Family Depicts Plight of the “Loopers”

Remember the Medicaid loopers? These were the folks who applied for coverage through the health insurance Marketplace only to be told they – or a family member – were not eligible because the Marketplace assessed them as eligible for Medicaid coverage. In some cases, parents did not learn that their child was not on their Marketplace…

April 28, 2014

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Sabrina Corlette

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ACA Promises Streamlined Medicaid/CHIP Renewals, After the First Round

The Affordable Care Act (ACA) envisions highly automated renewals for Medicaid and CHIP. With new eligibility systems capable of retrieving personal eligibility-related data from trusted sources, such as the state’s wage database, agencies should be able to renew coverage for most enrollees without requiring them to complete forms or submit paperwork. But first, state agencies…

April 22, 2014

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Tricia Brooks

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Pennsylvania Governor Corbett’s Medicaid Waiver Evokes Lots of Concern!

Governor Corbett’s “Healthy PA” waiver proposal includes a request for 24 waivers of federal law – a record among recent similar Medicaid waiver requests. Perhaps as a result, a significant number of national and state stakeholders and policy analysts submitted comments to the federal government on the waiver request – the public comment period closed…

April 11, 2014

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Joan Alker

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For DACA Grantees, Health Insurance is (Only) a Dream

By Dinah Wiley [Update: In August 2022, the Biden administration codified the DACA program in regulation. The regulation did not change health insurance for DACA grantees. For current information on DACA, visit the National Immigration Law Center.] We receive a lot of questions about the health insurance eligibility of non-citizens with a special Deferred Action status…

April 11, 2014

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Recommendations to Strengthen Navigator and Assister Programs

Hats off to navigators and certified application counselors (CACs) across the country who persevered through the rocky rollout of the marketplaces and helped create the late surge that put enrollment over the top. There is much yet to be learned as we reflect back on open enrollment, but we already know there is much that…

April 7, 2014

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Tricia Brooks

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CMS Reports Medicaid Enrollment Gains of 3 Million (and counting)

After hearing that more than 7 million people were enrolled through the marketplaces before the close of open enrollment on March 31st, we’ve been anxiously awaiting the release of companion Medicaid and CHIP enrollment data. The wait is over! CMS has released monthly eligibility and enrollment activity data since October 2013, but the hot-off-the-press February…

April 4, 2014

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Tricia Brooks

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Who Gets Extra Time “In Line” and Beyond to Enroll in Health Coverage?

Time for a victory lap over the announcement that marketplace enrollment whizzed past the revised target (that was lowered after the rocky launch) and exceeded the original projection of 7 million people? Not for navigators and certified application counselors who deserve much of the credit. They are still helping people swept up in the enrollment…

April 4, 2014

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Tricia Brooks

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Understanding Special Enrollment Periods: A Look at Some Who Will be Out of Luck

As part of our Robert Wood Johnson Foundation-funded Navigator Technical Assistance project, we’ve had the opportunity to hear the range of questions navigators and assisters are fielding from consumers trying to understand their coverage options. Many of these questions have helped fill out our Navigator Resource Guide, which has 270 FAQs ranging from “what is the individual…

April 3, 2014

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JoAnn Volk

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Florida’s Obamacare Alternative: After Six Years is This the Best They CanDo?

An insurance exchange opened last month in Florida, and it’s called “Florida Health Choices,” but it doesn’t offer consumers or small businesses actual health insurance. Instead, the only products consumers can buy on the site are called “supplemental” insurance products, designed to supplement, but not replace, traditional health insurance. These products don’t meet any of…

April 3, 2014

By

Sabrina Corlette

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