Commonwealth Care, Health Safety Net, MassHealth, Affordability

What "outreach & enrollment" actually looks like...

Blog - July 7, 2008 - 12:48pm - Brian Eno - Healthy Connections - Orange

"Outreach & enrollment" means much more than putting up posters and helping people fill out MassHealth applications. Recently, over the course of a two hour appointment, my supervisor and I counseled one household on eleven different public health insurance, subsidy and care programs. We helped them file four separate applications to five different insurance programs, putting together a patchwork of care options to cover the hole left by the loss of employer-sponsored insurance.

Redetermining the Safety Net and other changes...

Blog - May 19, 2008 - 3:32pm - Meg Kroeplin - Community Partners - Amherst

Starting this week, your clients who use the Health Safety Net should look for redetermination letters. Also, verification requests (VC-1s) for people you NEWLY enroll in MassHealth now go to the Central Processing Unit. ...I'm interested to hear how the redeterminations go for people who use the Health Safety Net.

New Federal Poverty Level guidelines are out

News - Submitted by Laura at CP on February 28, 2008 - 9:00am.

Charts describe new guidelines for MassHealth, Commonwealth Care, HSN, and other programs.

Health Care Reform

An overview of major parts of the Massachusetts Health Care Reform Law.