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New Resource Looks at Premium Assistance Options in Medicaid/CHIP

Yesterday my new report for the Kaiser Commission on Medicaid and the Uninsured was released called Premium Assistance in Medicaid and CHIP: An Overview of Current Options and Implications of the Affordable Care Act. The paper examines how statutory changes in the Children’s Health Insurance Program Reauthorization Act and the Affordable Care Act have changed…

March 15, 2013

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Joan Alker
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Replacing ARKids First with Exchange Coverage Would Put Children – and Arkansas’s Success – at Risk

Like most health policy folks, I have been watching developments in my home state of Arkansas with much interest. Recent media reports have discussed interest among state leaders to use Medicaid to purchase plans on the exchange, also known as the marketplace that will make private insurance available to many uninsured Arkansans starting next year…

March 14, 2013

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Elisabeth Wright Burak
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Premium Assistance in Medicaid and CHIP: An Overview of Current Options and Implications of the Affordable Care Act

Premium assistance is the use of public funds through Medicaid or the Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP) to purchase private coverage. States have pursued premium assistance with varied objectives, including covering parents not otherwise eligible for public coverage and promoting the use of private coverage. Implementation of the Affordable Care Act (ACA) coverage expansions is likely to spark renewed…

March 13, 2013

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Joan Alker
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March 13, 2013

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Karina Wagnerman
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Finding the Pot of Gold at the End of the Navigator Rainbow!

News that a new proposed rule on Navigators is under review at the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) hopefully means it won’t be long before we see model navigator training, conflict of interest and privacy standards. With any luck, release of the proposed standards should pave the way for the federal navigator grant solicitation.…

March 13, 2013

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Tricia Brooks
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Florida Medicaid Expansion – Not Dead Yet

Yesterday, the Florida Senate Select Committee on PPACA voted against a Florida Medicaid expansion on a straight party line vote – a surprise to some since a few Republicans on the committee, including Chairman Negron, had indicated that they were interested in moving forward. Many media sources are reporting that the Medicaid expansion is all…

March 12, 2013

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Joan Alker
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National League of Cities Receives Funding from Atlantic Philanthropies to Help Cities Improve Outreach and Enrollment

By Wesley Prater The National League of Cities (NLC) recently received a grant by Atlantic Philanthropies to conduct a three-year project, focused primarily on helping cities expand access to Medicaid and CHIP. The project will provide technical assistance and grants to help cities develop outreach and enrollment campaigns. Request for Proposals (RFPs) will be released…

March 11, 2013
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Assister Types Abound: But Where Oh Where Have All the In-Person Assisters Gone?

Last summer in a refresh of the exchange establishment grants, CMS quietly offered federal funding for a new category of assisters, called “in-person assisters” (IPAs). In November, I summarized what we did and didn’t know about IPAs in this blog post. In a nutshell, IPAs are intended to help exchanges meet their requirement to…

March 11, 2013

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Tricia Brooks
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Know Your Audience: Lessons for Online Paths to Coverage

Read the latest Mathematica evaluation of California’s web-based application system. Gene Lewit, David and Lucile Packard Foundation Enrolling almost 30 million Americans in health coverage starting January 1, 2014, is the sort of thing that can keep people up at night. It’s a daunting task, which the Affordable Care Act (ACA) sought to make easier…

February 27, 2013

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Most Important Issues for Children in the New Proposed Rule on Medicaid, CHIP and Exchanges

By Jocelyn Guyer After an intensive few weeks spent lugging around binders filled with the latest proposed rule on Medicaid and CHIP, we’ve finally done it! Here is our very best shot at a concise(ish) list of the top issues of concern for kids in the proposed rule. Comments are due this Thursday and, if…

February 20, 2013
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Assister Types Abound: Seven Steps to Strengthen Certified Application Counselor Programs

If you read the first blog in this series, you know we’re excited about the new Certified Application Counselor program because it builds on the existing and immensely effective infrastructure of community-based application assistance in many states. Here are seven ways to strengthen the proposed CAC program rules to better protect and meet the needs…

February 20, 2013

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Tricia Brooks
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Assister Types Abound: Introducing the Certified Application Counselor

Using community-based organizations, including community health centers and hospitals, to assist with Medicaid and CHIP enrollment has been a core element of successful state strategies in maximizing children’s health coverage over the years. Based on the latest 50-state survey on Medicaid and CHIP eligibility and enrollment, 23 states provided funding to these key community partners…

February 19, 2013

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Tricia Brooks
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Pre-existing Condition Insurance Plans (PCIPs) Closing

By Sabrina Corlette, Center on Health Insurance Reforms When we last checked in on the high risk pools created under the Affordable Care Act (called the Pre-existing Condition Insurance Plans, or PCIPs), it was to relate the stories of Randy Morales and Kathleen Watson, individuals whose access to insurance coverage through the PCIPs likely saved…

February 19, 2013

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Florida’s Failure to Accept Federal Funding to Expand Medicaid Would Create Coverage Gap

CCF’s Co-Executive Director Joan Alker was in Florida today testifying on the Florida Medicaid expansion before the Senate Select Committee on the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act. Joan has spent ten years researching Florida’s Medicaid program and released a report in November assessing Florida’s Medicaid choice so the committee wanted to hear from her.…

February 11, 2013

By
Cathy Hope
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Is There a New Premium Assistance Option in the Air?

So as I mentioned in my last blog on the Secretary’s Q and A in December, which most notably said waivers to do a partial Medicaid expansion are not on offer, an extremely obscure premium assistance option has been dusted off and featured in the Secretary’s letter – drum roll please — Section 1905a of…

February 8, 2013

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Joan Alker
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Clogging State Legislative Agendas with Misguided Navigator Restrictions

(Editor’s Note: As was reported in today’s Washington Post by Nurith Aizenman, signing up an estimated 30 million uninsured Americans for coverage will be a daunting task and some state legislatures are making it more difficult. Tricia Brooks, CCF’s expert on navigators and in-person assisters, finds that some state legislative proposals that restrict consumers access…

February 5, 2013

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Tricia Brooks
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Ohio’s Republican Governor Says Yes to Medicaid

“Better health. Better care. Better, more efficient use of taxpayer dollars. All are reasons why Medicaid expansion is right for Ohio,” read the tweet from Ohio’s Office of Medical Assistance as Ohio Governor John Kasich became the 5th Republican Governor to say “yes” to Medicaid option – a decision that may have ripple effects in…

February 4, 2013

By
Joan Alker
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SUPER BLOG-OFF: Go Ravens!

Editor’s Note: To vote for the Ravens, click on the Facebook or Twitter icons on the bottom and like, tweet or do both. If you aren’t into social media, send it to your friends by email.) By Suzanne Schlattman, Maryland Health Care for All Coalition I’m not a big fan of football, but I’m…

February 1, 2013

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Guest
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HHS Launches Exchange Outreach Efforts & Opens the ‘Health Insurance Marketplace’

Sarah Dash, Georgetown University Center on Health Insurance Reforms This week, the Department of Health and Human Services began a major push to educate the public about the new health insurance options available to them under the Affordable Care Act, including the newly-named Health Insurance Marketplace (formerly known as the “Federally Facilitated Exchange.”) With just under nine months to…

January 17, 2013

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Guest
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New Round of Connecting Kids to Coverage Grants Announced

The fact that we can all be proud of achieving historically high rates of health coverage for children (90%) has been the result of a number of successful strategies: savvy advocacy capitalizing on the high value Americans place on children’s health to expand coverage; removal of the red-tape paperwork burden on families and eligibility offices…

January 14, 2013

By
Tricia Brooks

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