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State Advocate To-Do List for 2013 outlines issues that advocates may want to address in 2013 in anticipation of the changing health care environment. 10 pp. (January 2013)
Help Wanted: Preparing Navigators and Other Assisters to Meet New Consumer Needs explains the requirements for navigator programs and answers seven key questions that states will face as they seek to establish effective navigator programs. It is available as an online tool kit and as a PDF. 29 pp. (Updated January 2013)
Filling in Gaps in Consumer Assistance: How Exchanges Can Use Assisters explains the key differences between navigator and assister programs and how in-person assistance can function in the different types of exchanges. It also recommends actions advocates can take. 9 pp. (Updated January 2013)
The 2013 New Year's Budget Deal and Medicaid: The Next Cliff explains how the deal that averted the fiscal cliff affects Medicaid. It also discusses additional upcoming threats to Medicaid and what advocates can do to protect the program. 2 pp. (January 2013)
Consumer-Friendly Standards for Qualified Health Plans in Exchanges: Examples from the States outlines the minimum standards for qualified health plans as set out in the Affordable Care Act. It then provides examples from eight state-based exchanges and one partnership exchange state on how to implement those standards in consumer-friendly ways. 20 pp. (January 2013)
Budget Timeline is a chart showing important dates in the federal budget process and the outcome of the fiscal cliff. 1 p. (January 2013)
Designing Consumer-Friendly Health Homes discusses six key decisions that states need to make when they set up Health Homes. It also explains the challenges that state advocates should address to ensure that Health Homes improve care for Medicaid beneficiaries. 22 pp. (January 2013)
At Risk in the Budget Battle: Health Care for Communities of Color illustrates the disproportionate impact deficit reduction could have on communities of color. This fact sheet demonstrates how protecting Medicare, Medicaid, and the Affordable Care Act are important for advancing health equity. 4 pp. (December 2012)
Health Homes in Medicaid: Challenges and Opportunities for Advocates defines Health Homes and discusses their potential to improve care for vulnerable patients, the role that advocates can play, and challenges that states and advocates will face. It includes a chart that summarizes key details of Health Homes in IA, MO, NC, NY, OH, OR, and RI. 19 pp. (November 2012)
Talking Points: Medicaid and the Federal Deficit 4 pp. (November 2012)
Deficit Reduction: Tell Your Legislators to Protect Medicaid outlines points for evaluating deficit reduction proposals and how to talk to members of Congress about these proposals. 4 pp. (November 2012)
What's Wrong with Per Capita Caps in Medicaid? explains this kind of cap, how it's different from what we have today, how such caps would be set, and the many problems with a system that uses per capita caps. 4 pp. (November 2012)
Will Congress Throw Medicaid Off the Fiscal Cliff? answers two basic questions: How did we get here?, and Where are we now? 2 pp. (November 2012)
The Medicaid Upgrade: Required and Optional Medicaid Eligibility Changes for 2014 is a chart that outlines changes that states are required to make and changes that they have the option to pursue in order to make the eligibility process more streamlined and consumer-friendly. 4 pp. (November 2012)
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