At long last, organizations can now apply for federal navigator funding in 33 states where the federal government will run the Health Insurance Marketplace or there is a State Partnership Exchange. The program will fund a total of $54 million dollars in grants (actually cooperative agreements). Grants will range from $600,000 to $8.1 million based […]
Organizations interested in applying for navigator grants and other stakeholders will want to take a close look at the proposed rules on navigator conflict of interest, training and meaningful access standards. While subject to a 30-day comment period and final rulemaking, the proposed rules add some clarity regarding expectations for federally-funded navigators and in-person assisters […]
By Christine Monahan, Georgetown University Center on Health Insurance Reforms In the midst of much analysis of the impact of the Affordable Care Act (ACA) on health insurance premiums, Vermont became the first state to release preliminary rate filings for plans to be sold in their health insurance exchange in 2014. The good news is that people generally haven’t […]
So as Tricia Brooks blogged about yesterday while I was taking the day off, CMS issued some interesting Q and A’s last Friday on how a state might consider taking a premium assistance approach to expanding their Medicaid program. The Q and A’s, to my mind, were a helpful contribution to the ongoing discussions in […]
By Christine Monahan and Katie Keith, Georgetown University Center on Health Insurance Reforms With many of the Affordable Care Act’s (ACA) most significant reforms expected to go into effect in 2014, policymakers and the media have increasingly turned their attention to the law’s price tag for consumers. Republican lawmakers, for example, sounded the alarm about […]
By Sabrina Corlette, Center on Health Insurance Reforms The District of Columbia is not technically a state, but it is one of the few that plans to run its own health insurance marketplace (called the “Exchange”) under the Affordable Care Act. Early on, however, DC planners realized that they had a very small pool from […]
