The Center on Budget and Policy Priorities (CBPP) has two new explanatory videos on immigrant subsidy eligibility and the auto-renewal process. These videos are available on CBPP’s Health YouTube channel: Special Subsidy Eligibility: Assisting Lawfully Present Individuals Who Don’t Qualify for Medicaid Based on Immigration Status Healthcare.gov Auto-Renewal Process for 2018 The slides for this […] Read More »

Last week, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) released the Eligibility Determinations and Enrollment Report from September 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 »

Earlier this year, HHS changed the rules for how marketplace insurers could respond to consumers who had fallen behind on their health insurance premiums. The Center on Budget and Policy Priorities (CBPP) has released a new fact sheet as part of its Health Reform: Beyond the Basics series. The fact sheet is entitled “Key Facts You […] Read More »

The Kaiser Family Foundation has released a new issue brief which examines how many consumers would be able to purchase plans through the marketplace for premiums that would be lower than the tax penalty they would have to pay. The issue brief entitled “How Many of the Uninsured Can Purchase a Marketplace Plan for Less […] Read More »

The Center on Budget and Policy Priorities has two new reference guides to help assisters with income and immigration. The guide “Yearly Guidelines and Thresholds” has helpful information including the federal poverty level for 2018, what the threshold is for affordability in employer-sponsored coverage and what the out-of-pocket maximums are for 2018. “Reference Guide to […] Read More »