Yesterday, CMS issued two reports which demonstrate the effectiveness of the COVID Special Enrollment Period (SEP) and the Affordable Care Act (ACA) following the enhancements provided by the American Rescue Plan Act (ARPA). The 2021 Marketplace Special Enrollment Period Report showed that since the end of May over 1.2 million people have enrolled in coverage […] Read More »
Archives for 2021
June 11, 2021
CMS SEEKING NAVIGATOR APPLICATIONS After this week and throughout the summer, we will be publishing the NDNRC Update on a biweekly basis. If you’re interested in serving as a navigator organization and helping consumers enroll in the Affordable Care Act marketplace, CMS is accepting applications from organizations to serve as navigators in states which utilize […] Read More »
New Report Shows Record Enrollment under the ACA
A new report from HHS indicates that over 31 million people have been enrolled in coverage through the ACA. This represents an all-time high of enrollees through the ACA marketplace. Below are links to the report and press release. ASPE: Health Coverage under the Affordable Care Act: Enrollment Trends and State Estimates CMS Press Release Read More »
CMS Announces Funding Opportunity for Navigators
Previously, we had reported that the Biden administration was going to be increasing the funding for the navigator program for the 2022 plan year. Today, CMS released the Notice of Funding Opportunity which will provide $80 million to organizations to act as navigators in states in the federally facilitated marketplaces. To learn more, you can […] Read More »
June 4, 2021
TO EXPAND OR NOT TO EXPAND? Our partners at Community Catalyst recently posted two blog posts which highlight the benefits of Medicaid expansion under the Affordable Care Act (ACA). This week, we highlighted some of these findings in our new blog post. One of the provisions in the American Rescue Plan Act (ARPA) made it […] Read More »
Benefits of Medicaid Expansion
Medicaid Expansion has quantifiable benefits and Community Catalyst recently set out some of these benefits in two recent blog posts. These benefits include better access to care for people with disabilities, broadened health care in rural areas and decreased racial inequities in coverage rates. Another benefit is that cancer gets diagnosed earlier, which lowers the […] Read More »
May 21, 2021
CBPP REPORT ON CONTINUOUS COVERAGE THROUGH MEDICAID With the Memorial Day holiday next week, we will not be publishing a NDNRC Update next week. Our partners at the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities (CBPP) have released a new study which demonstrates that determining health care coverage in Medicaid on a yearly basis rather than […] Read More »
Addressing Continuous Coverage through Medicaid
According to a recent study by the Center of Budget and Policy Priorities (CBPP), determining health care coverage in Medicaid on a yearly basis would reduce health care costs as opposed to coverage based on monthly income. By basing eligibility on a monthly basis, people with fluctuating income levels month to month can qualify one […] Read More »
May 14, 2021
COVID SEP ENROLLMENT HITS 1 MILLION This week, HHS Secretary Becerra acknowledged a milestone achievement – over 1 million people signed up for coverage on healthcare.gov since the start of the COVID Special Enrollment Period (SEP). To learn more and for links to Secretary Becerra’s statement and the most recent marketplace SEP report, check out […] Read More »
COVID SEP Enrollment Hits 1 Million
Yesterday, HHS Secretary Becerra acknowledged a milestone achievement – over 1 million people signed up for coverage on healthcare.gov since the start of the COVID Special Enrollment Period (SEP). This comes after the recent marketplace enrollment report which showed that nearly 940,000 people had been enrolled as of the end of April. To read more […] Read More »
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