Medicaid Expansions

This State Health Access Program (SHAP) brief, funded by the Health Resources and Service Administration, describes the promising approaches that five states (Colorado, Kansas, Minnesota, New York and Oregon) shared with regards to activities related to outreach and streamlining application and enrollment processes, and consider the implications of these practices for implementing the ACA.

Rhode Island has released an RFP to procure one or more vendors to design, implement, and operate a technology platform to support both new and existing health insurance initiatives under the Affordable Care Act (ACA), support existing human services programs, provide hosting services for the state’s health benefits exchange and integrated eligibility system (HIX/IES), and potentially provide contracted operations of key business functions of the HIX/IES.

This SHADAC presentation discusses the numbers and characteristics of those who will be newly eligible for Medicaid under the Affordable Care Act and how this varies across states. 

This brief by CHCS, outlines Affordable Care Act (ACA) provisions that affect AI/AN populations and provides strategies to help states and other key stakeholders fully realize the potential of reform to improve the health and health care of these people.

This brief reviews current research on current Medicaid participation rates and participation rates after reform implementation.