Medicaid Expansions

This New York State Health Foundation brief details the implications of offering a basic health plan in New York, using a variety of data sources to estimate the amount of federal funding that would be available; the take-up rate by various eligible population groups; the cost of offering a comprehensive public look-alike product; the types of plan options the State could potentially offer; and the impact on the rates of the uninsured.

This guidance letter from the U.S. Departments of Health and Human Services and Agriculture clarifies guidance issued in 2010 on cost-allocation procedures for information technology that can be used to develop health insurance exchanges that are called for under the health care reform law.

The Department of Health and Human Services has released updated federal poverty guidelines for 2012, setting the poverty rate at $11,170 in annual income for an individual and at $23,050 in annual income for a family of four.

This report is the Kaiser Family Foundation's annual 50-state survey of Medicaid and CHIP eligibility rules; enrollment and renewal procedures; and cost-sharing practices.

This report by the Tribal Affairs Group of the Centers of Medicare and Medicaid Services looks at the impact of the Affordable Care Act has on American Indian and Alaska Native people, and examines variations among 20 states on unisurance rates, the Medicaid population, and projected newly-eligible for Medicaid and subsidies.