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Multi-State Plans Under The Affordable Care Act, Trish Riley, Jane H. Thorpe
Multi-State Plans Under The Affordable Care Act, Trish Riley, Jane H. Thorpe
Health Policy and Management Faculty Publications
New state health insurance exchanges that are developing under The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA) will offer consumers a choice of private health plans known as qualified health plans (QHPs). Under the law, in every state, two of those must be multi-state plans or MSPs. These plans will be administered by the federal Office of Personnel Management (OPM). The MSPs must meet the same requirements as other QHPs. As with other QHPs, people enrolled in the plans will be eligible for premium tax credits and cost sharing assistance if their income is less than 400 percent of poverty …
Medicaid And Community Health Centers: The Relationship Between Coverage For Adults And Primary Care Capacity In Medically Underserved Communities, Peter Shin, Sara J. Rosenbaum, Brian K. Bruen, Alice (Xiao-Xiao) Lu, Rachel Arguello, Jennifer Tolbert
Medicaid And Community Health Centers: The Relationship Between Coverage For Adults And Primary Care Capacity In Medically Underserved Communities, Peter Shin, Sara J. Rosenbaum, Brian K. Bruen, Alice (Xiao-Xiao) Lu, Rachel Arguello, Jennifer Tolbert
Health Policy and Management Faculty Publications
Community health centers play an important role in providing care to uninsured and low-income individuals living in medically underserved communities. They rely on many different revenue sources and, over time, Medicaid has become a central source of funding for most health centers. To better understand how Medicaid influences health center practice, this paper compares the strength of health centers in states that have expanded Medicaid coverage for adults to health centers in states with more limited Medicaid coverage for adults. Differences between the two groups of health centers help shed light on the implications of broader Medicaid coverage for low-income …
Community Health Centers: The Challenge Of Growing To Meet The Need For Primary Care In Medically Underserved Communities, Tishra Beeson, Sara J. Rosenbaum, Jessica Sharac, Peter Shin, Julia Paradise
Community Health Centers: The Challenge Of Growing To Meet The Need For Primary Care In Medically Underserved Communities, Tishra Beeson, Sara J. Rosenbaum, Jessica Sharac, Peter Shin, Julia Paradise
Health Policy and Management Faculty Publications
This policy brief profiles health centers and the patients they serve, discusses how health centers are funded, and traces the history of health center growth. It closely examines the recent reduction in both federal appropriations and state grants for health centers, state cutbacks in benefits for adult Medicaid beneficiaries, and the anticipated impact of President Obama's FY 2013 request for federal funding for health centers. Finally, it looks ahead to both the challenges and opportunities health centers face as the nation prepares for 2014, when the ACA will be fully implemented.
Building A Relationship Between Medicaid, The Exchange And The Individual Insurance Market, Sara J. Rosenbaum, Trish Riley
Building A Relationship Between Medicaid, The Exchange And The Individual Insurance Market, Sara J. Rosenbaum, Trish Riley
Health Policy and Management Faculty Publications
The alignment of Medicaid and State Health Insurance Exchange (Exchange) policy and practice is a basic tenet of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA). Through both legislative provisions and implementing regulations, the ACA addresses this relationship. At the same time, the federal framework provides states with considerable discretion to flesh out the fuller dimensions of system interaction.