CMS FINALIZES NBPP FOR 2020 At the end of last week, the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) issued the final Notice of Benefit and Payment Parameters (NBPP) for the 2020 plan year. The NBPP is the regulatory framework which CMS uses to operate the federally facilitated marketplace (healthcare.gov). For links to the final […] Read More »
Archives for April 2019
CMS Finalizes NBPP for 2020
Yesterday, the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) issued the final Notice of Benefit and Payment Parameters (NBPP) for the 2020 plan year. The NBPP is the regulatory framework which CMS uses to operate the federally facilitated marketplace (healthcare.gov). To learn the specifics, you can download the final rules or check out the CMS press release or CMS’s summary […] Read More »
April 19, 2019
APRIL IS MEDICAID AWARENESS MONTH April is Medicaid Awareness Month and the Protect Our Care Coalition has set up a website to highlight the importance that Medicaid plays for millions of Americans. It can be found at https://www.medicaidawareness.com/. If you missed it earlier this month, we’ve updated our Medicaid Social Media Toolkit. The toolkit provides […] Read More »
Families USA Report Looks at Medicaid Churn
A new report from Families USA addresses the issue of “churning” in the Medicaid program. Churning is when circumstances occur which cause an individual’s eligibility in the Medicaid program to change, such as an individual’s income fluctuating, causing them to go between Medicaid eligibility and eligibility for coverage through the Marketplace. The report from Families […] Read More »
State Fact Sheets Emphasize Effect Medicaid Expansion Could Have
The Kaiser Family Foundation has released a series of fact sheets which highlight the effect that Medicaid expansion could in 13 states that have yet to expand. The state fact sheets can be found below: Alabama Florida Georgia Kansas Mississippi Missouri North Carolina Oklahoma South Carolina South Dakota Tennessee Texas Wyoming Read More »
April 12, 2019
NEW INTERACTIVE TOOLS FROM KAISER Are you interested in learning more about all the health care proposals which have been introduced in the new Congress? Kaiser has a new interactive tool which allows you to compare many of the various proposals which been introduced and see how each one addresses various issues such as eligibility, […] Read More »
New Resources on Medicaid Expansion
Within the last several months, there have been many new developments in the area of Medicaid expansion. A new tool from the Kaiser Family Foundation looks at the status of states’ decisions on Medicaid expansion. This tool provides the most recent status on what states are doing around Medicaid expansion, especially those which have recently […] Read More »
April 5, 2019
UPDATED MEDICAID SOCIAL MEDIA TOOLKIT AVAILABLE! The American Association on Health & Disability is pleased to announce that we recently updated our Medicaid Social Media Toolkit. As was the case with the prior toolkit, it provides sample social media posts and now divides them into areas highlighting Medicaid facts, impacted populations and benefits. Along with […] Read More »
Updated Medicaid Social Media Toolkit Available
The American Association on Health & Disability is pleased to announce that we recently updated our Medicaid Social Media Toolkit. As was the case with the prior toolkit, it provides sample social media posts and now divides them into areas highlighting Medicaid facts, impacted populations and benefits. Along with the sample posts are graphics and […] Read More »
Kaiser Report Highlights Findings from 50 State Medicaid Survey
The Kaiser Family Foundation released a new report at the end of last month which highlights their findings from a survey they conducted of all 50 states on their Medicaid programs. The report is entitled “Medicaid and CHIP Eligibility, Enrollment, and Cost Sharing Policies as of January 2019: Findings from a 50-State Survey”. Read More »