LESS THAN TWO WEEKS LEFT FOR OPEN ENROLLMENT – SIGN UP BY JANUARY 16
Happy new year! Start 2024 off with affordable, accessible, and continuous healthcare coverage by visiting HealthCare.gov during open enrollment. We encourage people without coverage or who want to change their plan to sign up by January 16, for coverage that starts on February 1.
Did you know that over 15 million people have already signed up for coverage through the Marketplace during this year’s open enrollment period? In the next week and a half before open enrollment ends, this number is expected to greatly increase in comparison to last year’s total of 16 million.
Join AAHD (@AAHD1) and the Young Invincibles (@YoungInvincible) for a #TodaysVoicesTue X (Twitter) chat on January 9 from 3 to 4 PM ET. This twitter chat will focus on “Young Adult Week of Action” to discuss what young people with disabilities need to know about how to get coverage before the January 16 deadline.
The Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services continues observing a “Pre-Existing Condition and Disability Week of Action” until January 6. CMS released a social media toolkit with talking points and graphics.
As of January 4, over 13.3 million Medicaid enrollees have lost coverage, according to data from the Kaiser Family Foundation. 34% of those who completed the renewal process were disenrolled and 23.9 million enrollees were able to qualify for renewed coverage. The large range of disenrollment rates in each state varies, with the highest of 62% being in Texas and the lowest of 10% in Maine. Out of all states with available data, 71% of all those disenrolled were due to procedural reasons.
Review the NDNRC’s latest factsheet on assisting consumers with communication needs, complete with an accessible PDF version. This factsheet is intended to help Navigators who work with people with disabilities who have communication-related needs in the process of applying for health insurance coverage through the Marketplace. It also covers general and population specific strategies and guidelines on how to provide effective and accessible communication to consumers.
Navigators who work with people with disabilities should have all the resources that they need as it relates to enrollment in the Affordable Care Act Marketplace during Open Enrollment. These resources consist of a Disability Guide to help in identifying issues that are central to healthcare insurance for people with disabilities along with 17 topical and 9 population specific factsheets.
Archives of our weekly updates are available on the NDNRC website.