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Policies
Feb 16, 2011
Early Innovator Grant

On February 16, 2011, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) announced that New York was chosen as one of seven "Early Innovator" states. The State received a grant award of $27.4 million over two years to design and implement the information technology (IT) infrastructure needed to operate the Exchange, including eligibility and enrollment systems. As an early innovator, the State will share components it develops with other states to use as they develop their Exchanges.

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Grant Awards
Jan 1, 2011
Building the Infrastructure for a New York Health Benefit Exchange: Key Decisions for State Policymakers
American Health Benefit Exchanges are the centerpiece of health insurance reforms in the Affordable Care Act (ACA). Under tight timeframes, all states are required to establish these entities, or cede that authority to the federal Department of Health and Human Services (HHS). Modeled on Massachusetts’s Connector, the Exchange will straddle public and private health insurance markets, and is charged with a broad range of duties. Some obligations — determining eligibility for tax subsidies to make coverage more affordable, facilitating enrollment in public coverage, and
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Reports & Research
Jan 1, 2011
"Revisioning" Medicaid as Part of New York's Coverage Continuum
Medicaid provides health insurance coverage for 4.8 million New Yorkers, more than 25 percent of people residing in the state.1 With the implementation of federal reform in 2014, perhaps as many as 1 million additional New Yorkers will secure coverage through Medicaid. By any measure, Medicaid is an important building block of health insurance coverage in New York State. Now, with the Affordable Care Act of 2010 (ACA), a new vision for health insurance coverage in the United States is being advanced, bolstered by significant funding to implement that vision. National
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Reports & Research
Jan 1, 2011
Coordinating Medicaid and the Exchange in New York
The Affordable Care Act (ACA) envisions access to affordable care for all Americans, a streamlined eligibility and enrollment process to obtain coverage, and seamless integration between Medicaid and the Exchange to ensure smooth transitions between sources of coverage as a person’s circumstances change over time. This paper explores the issues associated with these coordination challenges and identifies options for New York as it considers how to best approach the integration of coverage options along the continuum from fully subsidized public
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Reports & Research
Jan 1, 2011
Two into One: Merging Markets and Exchanges under the Affordable Care Act

This report, the third in a series of exchange-related works undertaken this year with the support of the New York State Health Foundation, focuses on two such areas of state discretion involving “mergers”: merging the individual and small business exchanges, and merging the individual and small group markets.

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Reports & Research

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