Medicaid Expansions

The California Department of Managed Health Care has announced the launch of a partnership with the Health Consumer Alliance to assist Californians struggling to gain access to health coverage. In addition to direct assistance, the Health Consumer Alliance will also provide consumers with information on changes to the health care system as a result of the ACA.

Maine's Governor, Paul LePage, has signed into law a compromise supplemental budget (L.D. 1816) that freezes new Medicaid enrollment for childless adults and phases in cutbacks on low-income parents.

Rhode Island has conducted an initial assessment of the BHP option and it is considering building it off of an existing and successful program called RIte Share, a premium assistance program for people who have access to employer-sponsored coverage, but cannot afford to pay the premiums.

The Secretary of New Mexico’s Human Services Department has released the state's Medicaid modernization plan aimed at trying to reduce the rising costs of the program across the state.

Progress update from New York's Medicaid redesign team.