Transformational Community Engagement: Working With Community to Advance Health Equity
On Tuesday, February 28, State Health and Value Strategies is hosting a webinar that will explore how states can implement community engagement strategies that amplify community voices, engage program enrollees, and translate engagement into more effective and equitable health initiatives. Community engagement is a critical component in advancing health equity as it enables trust and respect, improves barriers to health, and allows for efficacy by ensuring programs utilize experiences from the communities they impact. State reactors will also highlight recent Medicaid community engagement efforts.
Helping Consumers Navigate Medicaid, the Marketplace, and Employer Coverage
Many consumers will find the relationship between Medicaid, the marketplace, and employer-sponsored insurance to be more complicated than ever in 2023 as the unwinding of the continuous coverage requirement begins. Much of the focus of Medicaid unwinding planning in states and the federal government has been on helping eligible people keep Medicaid coverage and steering the millions of people losing Medicaid eligibility toward the health insurance marketplace. Less attention has been devoted to the millions of people who are expected to be eligible for employer-sponsored insurance when their Medicaid coverage ends. This issue brief discusses how state Medicaid agencies, state-based marketplaces, labor departments, and employers can play critical roles in helping people understand and navigate their coverage options.
Unwinding the Medicaid Continuous Coverage Requirement—Transitioning to Employer-Sponsored Coverage
While much attention has been paid to how states can approach the unwinding of the continuous coverage requirement to prioritize the retention of Medicaid coverage and transitions to marketplace coverage, less attention has been paid to the role of employer-sponsored insurance. To get a sense for the size of the group that might have employer-sponsored coverage as an option, this issue brief discusses the proportion of individuals with an offer of employer-sponsored coverage by income and state, and the proportion of those offers that are considered affordable based on premium cost.
Reaching Non-Citizen Communities: Resources to Support State Outreach and Education to Drive Healthcare Enrollment
States are working in various ways to engage and enroll individuals in health coverage regardless of their immigration status. In some cases, states continue to conduct outreach to eligible but remaining uninsured individuals, such as citizen children in families with mixed immigration status. In other cases, states are in the process of expanding coverage options to make new options available for non-citizens. The resources in this toolkit were informed by research and developed for states to customize based on their unique needs, program eligibility criteria, and environments to support outreach and education efforts to drive enrollment in new or existing health coverage programs.
Open Enrollment Period 2022-23 Messaging
The open enrollment period for the plan year beginning 2023 will begin on November 1, 2022, and marketplaces will be encouraging consumers to sign up for health coverage. This open enrollment period will see a continuation of enhanced subsidies and for some states, implementation of a fix to the so-called “Family Glitch.” This document includes research-based messaging to support outreach and enrollment, addressing common barriers consumers have to getting and keeping health coverage.
Protected: Facilitated and Automatic Enrollment Strategies
Password protected resource page for members of the Facilitated and Automatic Enrollment Strategies affinity group.
SHVS Resource Page: The No Surprises Act
SHVS is tracking the latest federal guidance related to implementation and oversight of the No Surprises Act (NSA), the comprehensive federal law banning balance bills in emergency and certain non-emergency settings beginning January 1, 2022. This resource page highlights the latest SHVS resources for states on federal NSA guidance and summarizes its implications for state regulators.
Protected: Affordable Health Coverage for Immigrant Populations
Password protected resource page for members of the Affordable Health Coverage for Immigrant Populations affinity group.
Protected: Marketplace and Department of Insurance Innovations – A Small Group Convening
Slide decks that were shared at the Small Group Convening on Marketplace and Department of Insurance Innovations that was held on May 24, 2022 in Philadelphia, PA.
Consulate Outreach Template Flyers
State Health and Value Strategies has created a flyer for states to customize and place in consulate offices, to serve as a resource to enroll eligible immigrants in health coverage in their state. The flyer is designed so that states can add their own contact information and logos for their outreach purposes and has been translated into Spanish.