BROOKINGS LOOKS AT FUTURE OF ACA MARKETPLACE On Tuesday, the Brookings Institution held an event entitled “What’s Ahead for the Individual Health Insurance Market?” The event examined the effects that recent actions by the Trump Administration have had on the marketplace. To learn more about the event or for links to the presentation slides or […] Read More »
Archives for 2018
Brookings Event Looks at Future of ACA Marketplace
On Tuesday, the Brookings Institution held an event entitled “What’s Ahead for the Individual Health Insurance Market?” The event examined the effects that recent actions by the Trump Administration have had on the marketplace, including ending the cost-sharing reduction payments and proposing regulations which would allow non-ACA compliant plans through associations and short-term plans. The […] Read More »
March 2, 2018
NEW SEP GRAPHICS AVAILABLE With open enrollment concluded, the Community Catalyst outreach project which we are working on has prepared graphics to highlight Special Enrollment Periods (SEPs) for which consumers may qualify (with tools like the graphic below). To learn more about what’s available through this project, check out our newest blog post. Speaking […] Read More »
SEP Graphics Available for Enrollment Outreach Project
Previously, we reported on a project we are working on with Community Catalyst which was aimed at spreading awareness about the open enrollment period. Earlier this month, we highlighted a new initiative they had on health insurance literacy and moving from coverage to care. They have now released a series of graphics to help highlight Special […] Read More »
CMS Releases Medicaid Enrollment Data for December 2017
Today, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) released the Eligibility Determinations and Enrollment Report from December 2017. This report can also be found on our Resources & Links page under “Enrollment Statistics.” Prior Medicaid enrollment reports from CMS, are archived on our website. Read More »
Kaiser Brief Examines Medicaid’s Role for Children with Special Health Care Needs
A new issue brief from the Kaiser Family Foundation examines the role Medicaid plays in providing care for children with special health care needs. The brief is entitled “Medicaid’s Role for Children with Special Health Care Needs: A Look at Eligibility, Services, and Spending.” According to the brief, there were 14.2 million children with special health […] Read More »
February 23, 2018
NEW MEDICAID WAIVER TRACKER AVAILABLE Are you trying to keep track of all the potential Medicaid waivers that are pending or approved? The Kaiser Family Foundation has released a new interactive Medicaid Waiver Tracker. To learn more about this tracker, check out our news item. Many of these waivers look at states adding work requirements […] Read More »
New Medicaid Waiver Tracker Available
The Kaiser Family Foundation has released a new “Medicaid Waiver Tracker: Which States Have Approved and Pending Section 1115 Medicaid Waivers?” The tracker is interactive and allows you to view the status of individual state waivers and what the states are doing in the areas of Medicaid expansion, eligibility and enrollment restrictions, work requirements, benefit restrictions […] Read More »
February 16, 2018
RESOURCES ON MEDICAID WORK REQUIREMENTS Recently we’ve been reporting a lot on the Medicaid waivers approved by CMS for Kentucky and Indiana which would add work requirements to their Medicaid programs. In order to capture all the news on this topic as well as resources we have highlighted, we posted a new blog post which […] Read More »
Summary of Posts and Resources on Medicaid Work Requirements
* – Updated: October 17, 2019 (note there is an updated blog post with this information as of 1/9/2020) Medicaid work requirements have been in our news a lot recently as CMS issued new guidance on it last month and two states recently had waivers approved which would add work requirements to their Medicaid programs […] Read More »