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Getting MAGI Right: An Assisters Worksheet for Determining Household Size in Medicaid and CHIP

Last week, we released a primer on the basics of MAGI – how rules for counting household size and income to determine eligibility for Medicaid and CHIP have been aligned with Marketplace subsidies. The move to MAGI has brought about a number of changes, but to further complicate things, there are some differences that apply…

February 3, 2015

By

Tricia Brooks

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A Closer Look at Medicaid Call Center Options as the Unwinding Kicks into High Gear

More than a year ago, we posted a blog warning that call center statistics would be the canary in the coalmine as states began the unprecedented challenge of renewing coverage for all 92 million Medicaid enrollees now that the COVID-related continuous enrollment requirement has ended. We all know how frustrating it can be when you…

May 10, 2023

By

Tricia Brooks

and

Allexa Gardner

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CMS Tools Suggest Key Roles for Managed Care Plans in Helping Enrollees Retain Coverage

While we were all unwinding from our Thanksgiving celebrations, CMS was busy putting out two new tools to assist state Medicaid eligibility and enrollment operations. The first is focused on preparing for the return to normal operations after the COVID-related continuous enrollment requirement is lifted while the second is a refresher on best practices and…

November 30, 2021

By

Tricia Brooks

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CMS Shares State Reporting Requirements on PHE Unwinding, but Will the Agency Share State Reports with the Public?

We’ve been expecting CMS to release a template for states to report key baseline and monthly data that is needed to monitor the unwinding of the Medicaid continuous coverage protection, but we got more than that with today’s release. CMS will also require states to complete and submit a form that summarizes the state’s approach…

March 22, 2022

By

Tricia Brooks

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States are Harnessing the Benefits of Video to Boost Outreach and Enrollment

Have you ever watched an instructional video about how to cut an avocado? Or how to change a car tire? Even short, explanatory videos about some of the simplest tasks can garner thousands of views from individuals looking to learn a new skill. The complexities of Medicaid and the Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP) are…

July 9, 2024

By

Natalie Lawson

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Hannah Green

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New Report Underscores Need to Reassure Immigrant Families

Researchers from the Urban Institute have documented the chilling effects of the Trump-era public charge regulation and other anti-immigrant policies for the past several years. Unfortunately, new research confirms that families are continuing to avoid public programs due to immigration-related concerns, despite having material hardships such as food insecurity, unmet medical needs, and problems paying…

December 16, 2022

By

Kelly Whitener

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States Can Help Address the Child Care Crisis by Prioritizing Health Coverage

Federal and state lawmakers are seeking policy solutions to address the child care crisis that was exacerbated by the pandemic. Workforce challenges loom large, with necessary attention to boost wages for the child care professionals who play a role in not only helping parents work, but also promoting early childhood development. But states can also…

November 28, 2022

By

Elisabeth Wright Burak

and

Suzanne Wikle

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Senate Releases Bipartisan Safer Communities Act, Includes Medicaid Mental Health Provisions

[Editor’s Note: The Bipartisan Safer Communities Act has since passed the Senate and the House and was signed into law by the President on Saturday, June 25th.] As we wrote about last week, the Senate has been actively working to advance an agreement on a gun safety bill that includes a number of provisions related to mental health.…

June 23, 2022

By

Anne Dwyer

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Florida’s Rolling Out a New Medicaid/SNAP Portal Next Week – Throwing Gas on the Unwinding Fire

With little advance notice to the community, the state of Florida announced in mid-November that it was moving next week (December 5th) to a new portal for eligibility for Medicaid, SNAP, child care and TANF; and that every person/household in the state accessing those benefits will need to create a new account. Every person create…

November 29, 2023

By

Joan Alker

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“Deemed Newborns:” Collateral Damage in the PHE Unwinding

This blog is about the babies on the bus. You know, the ones who go “Wah-Wah-Wah” all around the town. It seems that, in the course of the PHE unwinding, some of them are getting thrown under the bus. As my colleague Elisabeth Wright Burak recently reported, Arkansas disenrolled 3,300 newborns from Medicaid in April;…

August 28, 2023

By

Andy Schneider

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How Would Changes to Federal Medicaid Expansion Funding Impact People in “Trigger” States and Those with Expansion Enshrined in State Constitutions?

Congress is currently considering draconian cuts to Medicaid that would mean millions of low-income Americans lose access to affordable health care. But both the type of federal cuts and how the joint state-federal Medicaid program operates in each state mean that the impact on people living in different states would vary considerably. The major difference…

April 30, 2025

By

Adam Searing

Statement Related to Premium Assistance Provision in CHIPRA

March 22, 2012

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New Resource for Assisters Covers Private Insurance and Market Plans

Almost two months into open enrollment for the new Health Insurance Marketplaces, it is clear consumer assistance is essential to helping people understand their coverage options. Fortunately, the ACA anticipated this need by requiring the marketplaces to have Navigators who will help consumers compare options and enroll in coverage. The Administration and states are also…

December 1, 2013

By

JoAnn Volk

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Call Center Statistics: The Canary in the Coalmine When the Medicaid Continuous Coverage Protection is Lifted

As consumers, we all know how frustrating it can be to try to get help for some issue only to find that there is a lengthy wait just to talk to someone. Now consider how much more frustrating it would be if you work in a frontline position in service, retail, or hospitality industries and…

April 20, 2022

By

Tricia Brooks

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New CMS Resource is a Helpful Summary of Requirements for Unwinding the Continuous Coverage Protection

Over the past year and a half, CMS has released a variety of guidance, slide decks, tools, templates, and other resources on the unwinding of the continuous coverage provision. After a while, it can be pretty daunting to keep up with everything. Thankfully, the agency made it easier to find these resources by posting all…

May 24, 2022

By

Tricia Brooks

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Call Center Data Shows Trends Across States, But May Not Provide Full Picture

Before the unwinding began, Tricia Brooks highlighted why call center data would be an important piece of the puzzle in understanding how states’ returns to routine operations were going. Reporting call center data, along with other data reporting requirements enacted by the Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2023 (CAA) help CMS track how the unwinding is going…

March 26, 2024

By

Hannah Green

and

Ella Mathews

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Social Media: A Critical Tool for States to Leverage as Unwinding Winds Down

It is no secret that social media is one of the most powerful tools state Medicaid and CHIP agencies can employ when attempting to reach out to eligible individuals. Over 70% of adults ages 18–64 use at least one social media site, and targeted outreach on these platforms could help spread the word about programs…

June 6, 2024

By

Hannah Green

and

Natalie Lawson

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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

By

Tricia Brooks

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Getting MAGI Right: Do COVID-19 Stimulus Payments and Extra Unemployment Count toward Medicaid Eligibility?

The most popular blogs I’ve ever written were part of a 2015 series about Getting MAGI right. At the time, MAGI was a little understood acronym for Modified Adjusted Gross Income, which changed the way income and household size is counted for Medicaid and CHIP eligibility for children, pregnant women, parents and expansion adults. As…

April 22, 2020

By

Tricia Brooks

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Fixing the Family Glitch and Other Priorities: The Next Wave of Federal Administrative Action to Enhance the Affordable Care Act

Last year was a busy time for health policy. After a change in administration in the midst of the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, we saw numerous federal policy changes to strengthen the Affordable Care Act (ACA) and Medicaid program. Policymakers weren’t going it alone; stakeholders weighed in on health policy priorities, outlining administrative actions to increase access…

January 21, 2022

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