Medicaid Expansions

This brief provides the strategies and technological infrastructure required to achieve the essential design features of an eligibility, enrollment, and renewal system, as viewed through the lens of the consumer in California.

This issue brief explains the key steps in a streamlined application process and how they can promote enrollment.

Progress update from New York's Medicaid redesign team.

This brief explores the challenges for states in creating seamless health coverage for low-income populations, and provides a roadmap for states as they consider options for building seamless health systems. 

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 report by the Kaiser Family Foundation's Commission on Medicaid and the Uninsured, finds that most states are on track with their Medicaid budget and enrollment trends for fiscal year 2012 and do not anticipate the need for significant mid-year cuts.

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 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.

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.

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.