Eager to dig into details about state benchmark plan choices so far? This chart provides key details—with direct links to evidence of coverage documents and CCIIO’s plan summaries—about the plans states have selected or defaulted into. States had until December 26, 2012 to submit comments on the proposed EHB regulations to finalize their benchmark plan decision.
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Connecticut’s Embrace of Value-Based Insurance Design: Lessons for Health Reform
Guest bloggers Mark Fendrick and Jason Buxbaum are with the University of Michigan Center for Value-Based Insurance Design. read more
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Defining Habilitative Benefits: State Approaches Emerge
In 2014, health plans offered in the individual and group insurance markets will be required to cover a comprehensive set of benefits that fall into 10 categories – the essential health benefits (EHB) package. These EHBs include habilitative services and devices, a set of benefits not traditionally covered by private health insurance. Habilitative services, like rehabilitative services, generally include occupational and physical therapy, as well as speech-language services. read more
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State Progress on Essential Health Benefits
This chart highlights state activity around selecting essential health benefits benchmark plans. The information documented in the chart is based on information and materials that states have shared on State Refor(u)m.
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States Take A First Step On The Path To Essential Health Benefits
State benchmark plan decisions—the first step on the path to essential health benefits as part of the Affordable Care Act—are rolling in. So far, 20 states and the District of Columbia have at least made a preliminary benchmark plan decision, and 15 of these states and DC have chosen a small employer plan. read more
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States Sprint Toward A Benchmark Plan Decision
This webinar provided an opportunity to hear from a panel of states on the steps they have taken to establish and define essential health benefits. In addition, the panel discussed how these experiences inform their ongoing efforts to define a Medicaid benchmark plan.
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Infographic: States Sprint Toward Benchmark Plan Decision
This infographic highlights state progress toward essential health benefits benchmark plan selection.
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Analysis of Benchmark Plan Options for the Essential Health Benefits Package in North Carolina
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State of Arizona's Essential Health Benefits Analysis Report
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Medicaid-Financed Services in Supportive Housing for High-Need Homeless Beneficiaries: The Business Case
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