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With two weeks left, Medicaid transition reaches 26 percent

  • Health
  • by Kyle Constable
  • July 15, 2016
  • View as "Clean Read" "Exit Clean Read"
A sign outside the women's center in Danbury directs Access Health CT customers to the transition enrollment fair Wednesday afternoon.

Kyle Constable :: CTMirror.org

A sign outside the women’s center in Danbury directs Access Health CT customers to the first transition enrollment fair.

Over the last two weeks, Connecticut’s health insurance exchange has helped another 1,400 low-income individuals transition from their state-sponsored Medicaid plans as they prepare to lose them after July 31.

State lawmakers approved legislation last year that would make eligibility levels more stringent for parents and caregivers on HUSKY A, which is the state-sponsored Medicaid program for low-income children, parents and caregivers. The change in the eligibility level will cause about 14,000 parents and caregivers to lose coverage at the end of July.

The state’s health insurance exchange, Access Health CT, says 3,544 parents set to lose their coverage – almost 26 percent of those affected – have now enrolled in new plans on the exchange. This total amounts to about two-thirds of all individuals who enrolled in new plans in June, indicating a faster pace in July.

“Every person who signs up for a new plan we consider a success, and we continue to see more (affected) individuals enroll every day,” Access Health CEO Jim Wadleigh said. “This means our outreach is working.”

About two-thirds of those who have found new coverage through the state exchange have enrolled in different HUSKY plans, while the remainder have enrolled in new plans from private carriers on the exchange.

Last week, the exchange said 52 individuals who were already enrolled in new plans learned they would have to search for an alternative. Those individuals had selected coverage from HealthyCT, the state’s health insurance co-op. The state Insurance Department deemed the co-op “financially hazardous” on July 5 and is blocking it from issuing any new plans to consumers.

Access Health has pushed aggressively to enroll as many individuals losing coverage as possible.

Notices and postcards were mailed to all 13,811 parents and caregivers affected. Emanuela Cebert, the exchange’s outreach director, said Thursday the mailings have resulted in about 6,600 calls. In addition, the exchange has placed about 9,000 phone calls to those still not enrolled.

To accommodate higher call volume, Access Health announced last Friday it would keep its call centers open on Saturdays from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. through the end of July.

The exchange also organized seven transition enrollment fairs across the state, though the early fairs were sparsely attended.

Officials announced Thursday that a second fair in Norwich would take place on Saturday. They also said two more fairs would be added on July 30 in Hartford and Bridgeport. Unlike the previous fairs, these three will take place on a Saturday. Earlier fairs were scheduled on weekdays.

Correction: An earlier version of this story erroneously said those enrolling in new HUSKY plans would have to pay premiums. Only a small number of those on HUSKY C have premiums while the rest of the HUSKY plans do not.

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Kyle Constable Kyle was a general assignment reporter at the Connecticut Mirror. A former State Capitol beat writer for The Daily Campus, he graduated from UConn with a bachelor's degree in journalism in 2017. He previously worked for the Mirror as a freelance reporter and, before that, was the Mirror's 2016 summer reporting fellow and an intern during the 2016 legislative session.

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