Archives for September 2019

AAHD is proud to announce that we will be working with the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities (CBPP) again to provide technical assistance to navigators and other health insurance enrollment assisters. As part of this work, CBPP will once again be conducting its fall “Beyond the Basics” webinar series and they have announced the schedule for […] Read More »

A new analysis from the Kaiser Family Foundation shows that health insurance companies will be providing a significant number of rebates to consumers for the 2019 year. According to the analysis, the largest share of these will go to consumers who purchased insurance through the individual markets as over 2.7 million customers in the individual […] Read More »

A new report from the Census Bureau shows that the uninsured rate increased from 2017 to 2018. In 2018, the uninsured rate rose to 8.5% which is the first increase in the uninsured rate since the passage of the Affordable Care Act in 2010. The largest loss of coverage occurred in the Medicaid program as […] Read More »

On Friday, CMS announced the recipients for the 2019 navigator awards for Open Enrollment Year 7 (OE7). For OE7, CMS is awarding $10 million to be split among 34 different organizations. In addition, the organizations receiving the navigator awards will be funded for the next two years (OE7 & OE8). The full list of awardees […] Read More »