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HIPSM

Overlapping Eligibility and Enrollment: Human Services and Health Programs Under the Affordable Care Act. Hipsm

Our results are based on HIPSM’s simulation of the ACA as if it were fully implemented, including an expansion of Medicaid eligibility to 138 percent FPL. HIPSM augments the underlying Current Population Survey (CPS) data with imputations of health care costs, premiums, Employer Sponsored Insurance (ESI) offers, immigration status, and detailed
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Appendix III. Microsimulation Methodology

Overlapping Eligibility and Enrollment: Human Services and Health Programs Under the Affordable Care Act. Appendix III. Microsimulation Methodology

This appendix describes the microsimulation methodology used to estimate health and human services eligibility and receipt.
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Appendix II. Overview of Programs

Overlapping Eligibility and Enrollment: Human Services and Health Programs Under the Affordable Care Act. Appendix II. Overview of Programs

This appendix provides an overview of the various government programs discussed in the body of the paper. The following tables describe the eligibility rules and methods of each program, including rules on income limits, asset limits, reporting requirements, immigration and citizenship status, documentation requirements, enrollment priorities, and
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Appendix I. Analytic Framework

Overlapping Eligibility and Enrollment: Human Services and Health Programs Under the Affordable Care Act. Appendix I. Analytic Framework

This appendix describes a systematic approach to developing and categorizing specific data usage strategies that involve pairing a health program with a human services program for integration or coordination of eligibility determination, enrollment, or retention. Here, our goal is to identify analytic strategies (including a typology of approaches
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Conclusion

Overlapping Eligibility and Enrollment: Human Services and Health Programs Under the Affordable Care Act. Conclusion

Human services programs serve many of the same people who will qualify for health programs under the Affordable Care Act. The resulting overlap, along with new federal resources for IT development, may create promising opportunities to use one program’s data to qualify low-income consumers for other programs. This offers the possibility of impro
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Many consumers who will newly qualify for health

Overlapping Eligibility and Enrollment: Human Services and Health Programs Under the Affordable Care Act. Many consumers who will newly qualify for health coverage under the Affordable Care Act already participate in human services programs

A core objective of the Affordable Care Act’s health programs is maximizing enrollment of the eligible uninsured. To achieve this goal, the most important groups to reach are likely to be newly eligible consumers—Medicaid-eligible childless adults, Medicaid-eligible parents with incomes above their state’s pre-ACA thresholds, and people who
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Participation in human services programs could

Overlapping Eligibility and Enrollment: Human Services and Health Programs Under the Affordable Care Act. Participation in human services programs could help establish eligibility for Medicaid

As noted earlier, a Medicaid applicant’s attestation of financial eligibility can be verified by data that are reasonably compatible with those attestations, including data showing the receipt of human services benefits. 13 Moreover, when a Medicaid beneficiary’s coverage period is coming to an end, if reliable data demonstrate continuing eli
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Overlaps with human services programs that could

Overlapping Eligibility and Enrollment: Human Services and Health Programs Under the Affordable Care Act. Overlaps with human services programs that could help health programs function more effectively

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Many eligible nonparticipants in uncapped human

Overlapping Eligibility and Enrollment: Human Services and Health Programs Under the Affordable Care Act. Many eligible nonparticipants in uncapped human services programs will qualify for health coverage

Health programs offer the potential to provide additional help to uncapped human services programs—that is, programs that serve all who qualify, without funding caps—by enabling them to reach eligible nonparticipants.
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Data from health programs could help establish

Overlapping Eligibility and Enrollment: Human Services and Health Programs Under the Affordable Care Act. Data from health programs could help establish eligibility for human services programs

Most human services programs are capped. This means that serving new people may require displacing current clients. The expansion in health coverage contemplated by the Affordable Care Act can nevertheless help these programs more effectively and efficiently determine eligibility. Several years after the ACA has been implemented, numerous human se
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Overlaps with health programs that could help

Overlapping Eligibility and Enrollment: Human Services and Health Programs Under the Affordable Care Act. Overlaps with health programs that could help human services programs function more effectively

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Introduction

Overlapping Eligibility and Enrollment: Human Services and Health Programs Under the Affordable Care Act. Introduction

The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (Affordable Care Act or ACA) extends health coverage to millions of uninsured Americans, primarily through newly created Health Insurance Marketplaces and expanded Medicaid eligibility. It also sets the stage for major changes to eligibility determination for both health and human services programs.
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Financial Condition and Health Care Burdens of

Financial Condition and Health Care Burdens of People in Deep Poverty

Americans living at the bottom of the income distribution often struggle to meet their basic needs on very limited incomes, even with the added assistance of government programs. The following analyses describe the characteristics of the poor population; available income for those at the deepest levels of poverty; and average medical care needs am
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Appendix C: Estimated Costs of Drug

Appendix C: Estimated Costs of Drug Testing Proposals

From: Drug Testing Welfare Recipients: Recent Proposals and Continuing Controversies
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Appendix A: 2010 and 2011 Federal

Appendix A: 2010 and 2011 Federal and State Legislative Proposals on TANF Drug Testing

From: Drug Testing Welfare Recipients: Recent Proposals and Continuing Controversies
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Empirical Studies of Asset Building over

Empirical Studies of Asset Building over the Life Course

From: Asset Building over the Life Course
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Number of Continuous Months that Families

Number of Continuous Months that Families Received Child Care Subsidies before Leaving the Subsidy Program or Experiencing at Least One Month of Non-Receipt (Percentages of All Families Entering the Programs in FY 2007)

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Exhibit 1. Empirical Studies of Assets

Exhibit 1. Empirical Studies of Assets and Liabilities of Low-Income Households

Exhibit ES-1: Percentage of Workers in Low-Wage

Progress toward Self-Sufficiency for Low-Wage Workers

Contents Analytic Approach Key Findings Profile of Low-Wage Workers Low-Wage Workers Wage Progression Low-Wage Workers Progress toward Self-Sufficiency Low-Wage Workers Work Supports and Self-sufficiency
Median Total Asset Holdings by Income Quintile,

Balance Sheets of Low-Income Households: What We Know about Their Assets and Liabilities

Contents Methods and Data Sources Portraits of Families Low-income families Low education families Single-headed families Nonwhite or Hispanic families Renter families The low net worth family Suggestions for Future Research

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