Today the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) released the Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA) for navigators in both the federally facilitated marketplace as well as the state partnership marketplaces. The deadline for applications is July 10, 2014. To read CMS’s press release on the FOA, click here. To go to the FOA on grants.gov, click […] Read More »

Yesterday, the Urban Institute’s Health Policy Center released a report which breaks down the statistics on the individuals who are now newly insured either through the Marketplace or through Medicaid and CHIP. To read the report, click here. Read More »

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) Office of Communications is hosting a special webinar tomorrow on health insurance literacy. It is designed to provide the information navigators and enrollment specialists need to educate consumers who have limited knowledge on what health insurance terms mean and how it works. The information from CMS for the webinar […] Read More »

On Friday, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) issued final rules for the marketplace for 2015. The rules address areas like standardizing notices to consumers, procedures for consumers to get prescription drugs when not covered by the consumer’s plan, quality standards for QHPs and clarification on what state regulations conflict with the federal navigator […] Read More »

Today, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) issued guidance on special enrollment periods (SEP) when a consumer has coverage under COBRA. Specifically, CMS addressed the issue of what constitutes a “hardship” for purposes of receiving a SEP. Additionally, for consumers who are presently enrolled in a plan through COBRA, CMS has granted a SEP […] Read More »