By Joe Touschner The family glitch is well known to many Say Ahhh! readers: Children and spouses of workers are barred from subsidies to purchase health insurance if employer coverage for the worker is deemed affordable and is offered—at any price—to the family. CCF, along with other organizations, encouraged the Treasury Department back in 2011 […]
CMS released April enrollment numbers for Medicaid and CHIP, showing a net increase in enrollment of over 6 million people. The majority of new enrollees (84%) got coverage in the 26 states and D.C that have embraced the Affordable Care Act’s expansion of Medicaid. Even though Medicaid is open 24/7 year-round, the impact of outreach […]
By Martha Heberlein CMS released new MAGI-based eligibility thresholds effective April 1, and plans to release updated eligibility thresholds once a quarter. The idea is to confirm with the states that the FFM is using the correct threshold for assessing/determining eligibility in the states. So each quarter, they’re surveying the states as to what they […]
By Kristen Golden Testa, The Children’s Partnership, and Mike Odeh, Children Now Our previous post, Making Coverage More Meaningful (Part I): Identifying Challenges in Measuring Access to Care in California described why we have more work to do to make sure that people enrolled in Medi-Cal and Covered California can actually access timely, quality care. In this […]
By Kristen Golden Testa, The Children’s Partnership, and Mike Odeh, Children Now As a result of expedited enrollment strategies and incredible outreach during the open enrollment period, millions more Californians have enrolled in affordable health insurance – 1.4 million, including 80,000 children, have enrolled in the Covered California marketplace, and 1.9 million have newly enrolled […]
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 […]
