The Children's Partnership developed a new factsheet on the CHDP Gateway, with recommendations on incorporating it as part of California’s implementation of the ACA and further strengthened to serve as an important pathway for meeting the health and enrollment goals of health care reform while maintaining its ability for children to access needed services.
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Health Reform Enrollment October 2012 Update (pdf)
As states look ahead one year and anticipate what it takes to enroll large numbers of individuals in the coverage newly made available by the Affordable Care Act (ACA), they can take some lessons from states that have had success with Express Lane Eligibility (ELE). ELE allows states to reach and enroll large numbers of children (and, with CMS approval, parents) through other means-tested programs that have collected and evaluated much of the same eligibility information.
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Health Reform Enrollment September 2012 Update
With a little more than a year to go before state health insurance Exchanges must be open for business, states are under tremendous pressure to develop an enrollment system that will meet the needs of consumers. The tremendous complexity involved in the development of an eligibility and enrollment system has required states to invest an enormous amount of resources and time to successfully complete the project. One of the ways that Oregon has found to meet this challenge has been through formal and informal collaborations, through which it has learned as much as it can from other states and available resources.
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The Children's Partnership submitted a letter to Governor Brown, urging his signature of SB 970 (de Leon). SB 970 would integrate the process of applying for health coverage with public programs such as CalFresh and CalWORKS.
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Download TCP's submitted comments on Draft Elements and Supporting Statement for Data Collection to Support Eligibility Determinations, CMS-10433, CMS-10438, CMS-10439 and CMS-10440.
Health Reform Enrollment August 2012 Update
The Children’s Partnership (TCP) spoke with leaders of Massachusetts’ effort to get that state’s eligibility and enrollment system ready for 2014. This E-Update provides readers with the heart of those conversations — about challenges, opportunities, and sharable lessons — in the attached interview with:
- Scott Devonshire - Principal Functional Lead for the New England States Collaborative for Insurance Exchange Systems (NESCIES);
Chief Information Officer (CIO) for the Commonwealth Health Insurance Connector Authority (“Health Connector”);
- Jay Himmelstein, MD, MPH - Director, New England States Collaborative for Insurance Exchange Systems (NESCIES);
Professor, Family Medicine and Community Health, University of Massachusetts Medical School ; and
- Michael Tutty, MHA, PhD - Director, Office of Health Policy and Technology (HPT);
Project Director, New England States Collaborative for Insurance Exchange Systems (NESCIES);
Instructor, Department of Family Medicine and Community Health, University of Massachusetts Medical School.
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Health Reform Enrollment July 2012 Update
As the deadline for full implementation of the Affordable Care Act (ACA) quickly approaches, many states are hard at work developing health insurance exchanges and eligibility/enrollment systems on their own. Vermont is one of a half dozen states partnering with The New England States Collaborative Insurance Exchange Systems (NESCIES) to pool their resources to develop cutting edge and cost-effective technology components, software and best practices for the implementation of an insurance exchange. What Vermont policymakers understand, and others often miss, is the value of taking a comprehensive and coordinated approach to health information technology (HIT) — both in terms of partnering with other states to develop core systems components that can be shared as well as in terms of coordinating across its own enterprise.
Download Background Document: A Closer Look at Vermont
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Download recommendations sent to California policymakers responsible for designing eligibility and enrollment under ACA
 
Kristen Golden Testa, Health Director
Health Action 2012 Families USA, Washington DC
January 19, 2012
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By Dawn Horner and Beth Morrow | January 2012
 This roadmap lays out the four design features (and practical recommendations for action within each) necessary to enroll almost 4 million Californians newly eligible for subsidized health coverage under health reform, in addition to assisting the over 8 million already receiving such coverage. While written with a specific focus on California, the information and recommendations in the report will be relevant to decisionmakers in any state.
Download the Executive Summary
Download the Full Report
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Terms:Beth Morrow, California, Consumer Engagement, Dawn Horner, Electronic Information Exchange, Family-Friendly Enrollment, Health , Health Care/Reform, Health IT, HIT, Technology
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