Templates & Toolkits | Feb 28, 2014

Series: Consumer Assistance Resource Guides

Manatt Health Solutions and the Center for Health Care Strategies 

Early evidence from across the nation suggests that consumer assisters are playing a vital role in helping people enroll in the new coverage options made possible by the Affordable Care Act. The State Health Reform Assistance Network has engaged with a number of states to develop easy to understand materials to educate consumer assisters about various issues that may confuse consumers and the assisters trying to help them during the eligibility determination and enrollment process. The following resource guides, prepared by Manatt Health Solutions and the Center for Health Care Strategies, were developed to help consumer assisters answer some of the most common eligibility and enrollment questions:

– Minimum Essential Coverage

– Household Composition Eligibility Rules

– MAGI Household Income Eligibility Rules

– Immigrant Eligibility

– American Indians and Alaska Natives

 

 

Expert Perspectives

October 4, 2023

How Medicaid Agencies Can Leverage Multi-Payer Aligned Measure Sets

This expert perspective reviews how Medicaid programs in Connecticut, Massachusetts and Rhode Island have engaged with commercial payers, providers, patients, advocates and other parties to create and adhere to multi-payer aligned measure sets. It describes the benefits to Medicaid agencies of participating in aligned measure set efforts, as well as tips and resources for Medicaid agencies intersted in measure alignment.

September 26, 2023

CMS Finalizes Medicaid Rule to Streamline Enrollment into Medicare Savings Programs

This expert perspective provides a high-level overview of key provisions included in the “Streamlining Medicaid; Medicare Savings Program Eligibility Determination and Enrollment” final rule that will facilitate enrollment and retention of Medicare Savings Program (MSP) coverage. MSPs are state-run programs that help low-income Medicare enrollees pay their Medicare premiums and/or cost-sharing. While the final rule’s effective date is November 17, 2023, CMS delayed compliance dates for most provisions until April 1, 2026, to reflect states’ competing priorities in light of the “unwinding” of the Medicaid continuous coverage requirement.