Getting into gear for 2014: findings from a 50-state survey of eligibility, enrollment, renewal, and cost-sharing policies in Medicaid and CHIP, 2012-2013

Getting into gear for 2014: findings from a 50-state survey of eligibility, enrollment, renewal, and cost-sharing policies in Medicaid and CHIP, 2012-2013

Collection:
Health Policy and Services Research
Author(s):
Heberlein, Martha, author
Brooks, Tricia, author
Alker, Joan, author
Artiga, Samantha, author
Stephens, Jessica, author
Contributor(s):
Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation, issuing body.
Kaiser Commission on Medicaid and the Uninsured, issuing body.
Publication:
Washington, D.C. : Kaiser Commission on Medicaid and the Uninsured, January 2013
Language(s):
English
Format:
Text
Subject(s):
Child Health Services -- legislation & jurisprudence
Child Health Services -- trends
Cost Sharing -- legislation & jurisprudence
Cost Sharing -- trends
Eligibility Determination -- legislation & jurisprudence
Eligibility Determination -- trends
Health Care Reform -- legislation & jurisprudence
Health Care Reform -- trends
Health Policy -- legislation & jurisprudence
Health Policy -- trends
Medicaid -- legislation & jurisprudence
Medicaid -- trends
United States
United States.
Genre(s):
Technical Report
Abstract:
As 2013 begins, implementation of the major provisions of the Affordable Care Act (ACA), including its coverage expansions, is less than a year away. Following the Supreme Court ruling to uphold the ACA and the 2012 elections, efforts to prepare for 2014 are moving into high gear in many states. During the past year, a number of states shifted focus to wide-ranging improvements in Medicaid enrollment processes and systems and a number continued to make more targeted eligibility or procedural improvements. Similar to recent years, Medicaid and the Children's Health Insurance Program (CHIP) continued to be bedrock sources of coverage for children and, to a lesser degree, their parents, as the ACA requirement for states to maintain eligibility levels and enrollment and renewal procedures remained in place. Modest improvement in the economy curbed Medicaid enrollment growth and its impact on state budgets. Yet, continuing fiscal constraints prompted a number of states to increase cost-sharing and a handful eliminated coverage for adults under limited exceptions to the requirement for states to maintain eligibility. At this pivotal time, this twelfth annual report provides a snapshot of current Medicaid eligibility and enrollment policies and procedures and highlights changes states will need to make in the coming year to implement the Medicaid provisions of the ACA. Conducted by the Kaiser Commission on Medicaid and the Uninsured and the Georgetown University Center for Children and Families, it provides results from a 50-state survey of eligibility, enrollment, renewal, and cost-sharing policies in Medicaid and CHIP, documenting changes made during 2012 and policies in place as of January 1, 2013.
Copyright:
Reproduced with permission of the copyright holder. Further use of the material is subject to CC BY license. (More information)
Extent:
1 online resource (1 PDF file (79 pages))
Illustrations:
Illustrations
NLM Unique ID:
101605117 (See catalog record)
Permanent Link:
http://resource.nlm.nih.gov/101605117