Tuesday, March 3, 2015

Connect for Health Colorado Updates - Joint Individual Experience and Outreach and Communications Advisory Group Meeting

"Connect for Health Colorado's Individual Experience and Outreach and Communications Advisory Groups will be hosting a meeting  on Thursday, March 12th, 10:00am-11:30am to elicit important feedback from each of you. The meeting will take place at Connect for Health Colorado, 3773 Cherry Creek N Drive, Ste 1025, Denver, CO 80209. Webinar access for remote participants will also be available.

Areas of discussion will be focused on getting your ideas and recommendations for the future structure of the Marketplace. Discussion will also include reflection on this past Open Enrollment and recommendations about future enhancements. Click here to RSVP!

Other Updates:
  • The possibility of a special Open Enrollment period to give tax filers who discover they are subject to a tax penalty for going without health insurance another chance to sign up is still under discussion. We have been talking with stakeholders, including the state Division of Insurance, and expect a decision soon.
  • Our second Open Enrollment period had closed only five days earlier when the federal department of Health and Human Services last Friday issued the rule which includes the dates for the 2016 Open Enrollment. It will run from Nov. 1, 2015, through Jan. 31, 2016.  You can find more details here.
  • The state House Health, Insurance and Environment Committee on Thursday voted down a bill that would have increased legislative oversight of Connect for Health Colorado.  Senate Bill 52 would have given the Legislative Health Benefit Exchange Implementation Review Committee oversight over salaries, raises and bonuses for employees. Read more.
  • Gallup Healthways released another poll showing the drop in the uninsured rate. The report reflects polling for all of 2014, which found a 5.8 percentage point drop in Colorado and a 3.5 percentage point decline nationwide. Another way to look at it, 12.3 million fewer adults were uninsured in the last three months of 2014, when compared with the third quarter of 2013, when open enrollment in state health insurance marketplaces began. Read more." [Source: Connect for Health Colorado]

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