Health Reform

New Medicaid enrollment system remains on track

0 | May. 13, 2013 | Health Reform, Medicaid-CHIP

The building of a new Kansas Medicaid eligibility and enrollment system intended to be interoperable with the new federal health insurance marketplace remains on budget, according to the state's project overseer. But the system's planned connection to the federal insurance exchange could slip behind schedule, if federal officials don't pick up the pace on their end.

Knowledge gap: The ACA marketplace is coming but who knows?

0 | May. 13, 2013 | Health Reform, Insurance

Enrollment for health insurance coverage through the Affordable Care Act’s new online marketplaces is scheduled to start Oct. 1 in Kansas and across the nation. But it is clear that many, if not most, of the millions of people expected to benefit from the so-called “insurance exchanges,” still know little or nothing about how the marketplaces are supposed to work or the law behind them.

Kansas to get new ACA jobs despite snub of health care law

0 | May. 10, 2013 | Workforce, Health Reform, Insurance

Four states that have snubbed the federal health law by defaulting to the federal government to build new online insurance marketplaces and not agreeing to expand Medicaid are getting new jobs at call centers that will help consumers understand their new coverage options this fall. Kansas is one of them.

Safety-net clinics eligible for $1.7 million in federal marketplace grants

0 | May. 09, 2013 | Community Health, Health Reform, Insurance

Federal official today announced that 16 safety-net clinics in Kansas are eligible for more than $1.7 million in grants to help the state’s uninsured and underinsured residents find affordable health insurance through the new online insurance marketplace that is scheduled to be operational by Oct. 1.

Colorado launches $2M ad campaign for coming insurance exchange

0 | May. 09, 2013 | Health Reform, Insurance

This week, Colorado became the first state to launch a public awareness campaign with television, print, radio and billboard ads that will cost $2 million and run two months. The TV ad shows a woman at her kitchen table scrolling through health plan information on the Connect for Health Colorado website. The voice over says the website lets people shop and buy a health plan online.