On February 22, 2012, Arkansas was one of ten states to receive an Exchange Establishment Grant in the fourth of six rounds of grant awards. The Arkansas Insurance Department will use the Level One $7,665,483 award to design and implement key components of the Federally-facilitated Exchange Partnership Model and also accomplish the following:

-Design and implement automation to connect Arkansas Medicaid and appropriate State-run Exchange functions with the Federally-facilitated Exchange Eligibility and Enrollment portal;
-Design, develop, and implement operations and information systems to support State-operated Federally-facilitated Exchange Consumer Assistance functions including outreach, education, and the Navigator Program; and
-Design, develop, and automate State-operated Plan Management functions of the Federally-facilitated Exchange including Qualified Health Plan certification, rating, monitoring, and evaluation to effect continuous quality improvement.

These activities will continue to be done in collaboration with state partners and informed by input from stakeholders. Arkansas also plans to design a temporary reinsurance program.

Here is the State of Arizona presentation that we put together for our March 1st and 2nd Establishment Review meeting with CCIIO. Please note that we did not present these slides in order as intended and we were not able to get through no more than about a quarter of the slides.