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This blog discusses states' approaches to support coverage through the unwinding period.
This blog uses data from the U.S. Census Bureau’s Household Pulse Survey to track trends in adult health insurance coverage rates as states “unwind” the Medicaid continuous coverage requirement.
This blog highlights national and state-level changes that took place between 2021 and 2022 in the broadest categories of insurance.
This blog shares a new report that offers policy recommendations to ensure new mothers are able to access coverage and high-quality care during the postpartum period.
In this blog and infographic, SHADAC researchers use recently released data from the Medical Expenditure Panel Survey-Insurance Component (MEPS-IC) to analyze private-sector ESI and provide an initial snapshot of estimates for 2022 on a national level and within the states.
This blog discusses available options states can adopt to improve ex parte rates.
This report shares findings with policy implications for how counts of the uninsured should be interpreted while highlighting the importance of policies that promote Medicaid enrollment and retention.
This blog shares data on how states are monitoring the impacts of the resumption of eligibility redeterminations and disenrollments.
This blog tracks trends in adult health insurance coverage rates as states “unwind” the Medicaid continuous coverage requirement.
This toolkit identifies opportunities and explores strategies to improve call center functionality.
This blog shares individual-level surveys of people who were enrolled in Medicaid during the continuous coverage requirement to help answer whether people are gaining employer-sponsored insurance (ESI) upon leaving Medicaid coverage and why some successfully renewed while others could not.
This publication explores how Medicaid enrollees searching for new health plans on the private market are facing aggressive and misleading marketing of limited benefit products that often fail to protect consumers from the steep cost of healthcare.
This blog reviews state processes that are underway to ensure eligible children who are losing Medicaid coverage are transitioning to CHIP.
This blog examines states' use of data dashboards to monitor progress on coverage transitions during the unwinding.
This blog examines trends in adult health insurance coverage rates as states “unwind” the Medicaid continuous coverage requirement and restart standard redetermination procedures.
This blog discusses how data dashboards allow states to make proactive decisions about what data to release and on what schedule.
This blog examines two case studies that highlight how the profile can support the enrollment efforts of local organizations and departments.
This blog discusses how data dashboards can be useful for states to make proactive decisions about what data to release and on what schedule and then organize that data in an easy-to-digest visual format that facilitates the interpretation of key coverage trends.
This blog discusses how states are approaching helping their residents secure coverage.
This blog examines and maps states that are using publicly available dashboards to share key data points as they monitor enrollment transitions throughout the unwinding.
This blog examines states' plans to publish a data dashboard to monitor progress.
This report analyzes healthcare coverage and eligibility of nonelderly noncitizens compared with the entire nonelderly population of the US.
This blog reviews selected policies tied to the PHE and evaluates how their expiration will impact consumers’ access to services.
This report examines how states coordinate across Medicaid and the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program.
This blog focuses on provisions of the final rule most of interest to State-Based Marketplaces and state insurance regulators.
This blog discusses how new CMS approvals in Oregon and Washington will protect health coverage for children and families during this Medicaid unwinding, minimizing coverage disruptions and easing transitions to new sources of health coverage.
This blog discusses that, while there are many factors that may affect the scale of coverage losses from procedural disenrollments, one of the significant concern is notices.
This blog focuses on market reforms and consumer assistance within the 2024 Notice of Benefit & Payment Parameters.
This blog discusses key themes underlying many of the 2024 rules including the administration's commitments to advancing health equity, improving the costumer experience, and expanding marketplace enrollment.
This blog discusses how states have initiated plans to publish a data dashboard to monitor unwinding progress.
This blog discusses opportunities and considerations to utilize strategies to minimize coverage loss as states reinstate Medicaid redeterminations.
This blog discusses actions government officials have been taking to promote continuity of coverage to minimize the number of people who become uninsured or face a gap in coverage.
This blog discusses how some states have initiated plans to publish a data dashboard to monitor progress given the intense focus on coverage transitions during the unwinding.
This blog examines three key strategies Benefits Data Trust believes will help streamline the transition for government staff and Medicaid recipients.
This blog provides a checklist of actions state-based Marketplaces and state departments of insurance can take to reduce gaps in coverage and minimize disruptions in care.
This blog highlights updates to the Center On Health Insurance Reforms' Navigator Resource Guide to help consumers and enrollment assisters during the unwinding.
This blog highlights the benefits of using federal matching funds to help states hire more people, raise wages, and temporarily bring back retired workers, and pay overtime.
As states prepare to unwind the COVID-19 pandemic-related Medicaid continuous coverage requirement and resume terminations of coverage as soon as April 1, this blog examines how they could streamline eligibility determinations for older adults and people with disabilities, who face unique challenges with the Medicaid enrollment and renewal process.
This publication presents a checklist that provides an overview of the minimum redetermination requirements states must follow, and identifies some common red flags that may indicate failures by the Medicaid agency to meet those requirements.
This blog reviews a new report that explores the high stakes for children when the continuous coverage protection expires.
This blog outlines the relevant reporting requirements that were included in the CAA and the corresponding reporting guidance provided by CMS.
This blog covers key considerations to account for as the unwinding begins, including a newly announced special enrollment period (SEP).
This blog examines how the Consolidated Appropriations Act of 2023 will strengthen the CHW workforce and improve patient care.
This blog discusses that, though the law intended to cover ALL FFY and the provision seems straightforward, the way the law was constructed has many barriers and administrative burdens.
This blog highlights state strategies to maximize continuity of coverage for consumers coming off Medicaid and needing to transition to the marketplace.
This Q&A style blog discusses ex parte redeterminations in which Medicaid officials attempt to make a redetermination of an individual’s eligibility based on available data, without requiring additional information from the individual.