Transcript Advance Premium Tax Credit (APTC)

Affordable Care Act (ACA)
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What is the Affordable Care Act?
Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act
(PPACA), a.k.a. ACA
– Federal health care reform law
– March 23, 2010 signed into law by President
Obama
– Goals:
• Expand coverage
• Control health care costs
• Improve health care delivery system
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What does it do?
• Requires coverage regardless of pre-existing
conditions or gender
• Intended to increase rate of individuals covered
by insurance through:
– Creation of insurance exchanges and
expansion of Medicaid eligibility
– Mandates on employers and individuals
– Premium subsidies
– Tax credits
• Intended to decrease number of uninsured
individuals
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What does it establish?
• Facilitates provision of qualified health
coverage
• Mandates health benefit exchanges (also
known as Marketplaces) by January 2014
in every state
• Regulatory overhaul of the U.S. healthcare
system
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State Requirements – Insurance Exchanges
• Choose an Insurance Exchange Option by December 14, 2012
• 3 options:
State Based
State Partnership
Federally Based
State Based Exchange (SBE)
Partnership Exchange
Federally Facilitated
Marketplace (FFM)
Built and maintained by each
state
Hybrid Model; state assumes
certain responsibilities
Built by Federal government,
each state establishes an
interface with the FFE
State Example: Washington
State Example: Delaware
State Example: Pennsylvania
35% of states
14% of states
51% of states
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What role will be played by the FFM?
• The federally facilitated exchange is also
referred to as the FFE or federally facilitated
marketplace (FFM).
• Individuals may apply for insurance through the
Exchange.
• The Exchange will determine eligibility for:
– Advanced Premium Tax Credit (APTC)
– Cost Sharing Reductions (CSR)
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What are APTC and CSR?
Advance Premium Tax Credit (APTC): A new
tax credit to help individuals and families afford
health coverage purchased through the
Exchange.
Cost Sharing Reduction (CSR): A discount that
lowers the amount paid out-of-pocket for
deductibles, coinsurance, and copayments.
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How does ACA affect DPW?
What Has DPW Already Done Related to ACA?
• Extended Medicaid Drug Rebates to drugs paid by Medicaid
Managed Care Organizations.
• Implemented several new program integrity and provider enrollment
screening processes.
• Began paying increased payments to Medicaid primary care
providers.
• Implemented a recovery audit contract to identify payment issues
and recoup overpayments.
• Implemented payment policies for hospitals that prohibited payment
for a Health-Care Acquired Condition, such as infections acquired at
the hospital.
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How does ACA affect DPW?
One goal of ACA is to provide a seamless and simplified enrollment
process for all Insurance Affordability programs. Pennsylvania will
accomplish this requirement for simplified enrollment by providing
multiple ways to apply, including:
• Exchange
– Electronic Application
– Paper Application
• New Pennsylvania paper application form called the PA 600HC
• COMPASS – Updated to comply with ACA
• Phone Applications
There is ‘no wrong door’ when
applying for Medical Assistance
and other Health Care Plans!
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How does ACA affect DPW?
• The Modified Adjusted Gross Income (MAGI)
standard will now be used for Medicaid
eligibility.
– MAGI will apply to adults, children, pregnant
women, parents, caretaker relatives, and individuals
eligible for family planning services.
– MAGI does NOT apply to SSI recipients; children in
foster care; individuals eligible based on being
aged, blind, or disabled; working disabled; or
individuals in a facility/eligible for home and
community based care.
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What is Early MAGI?
• PA applied for an Early MAGI waiver to start
MAGI October 1, 2013 rather than January 1,
2014.
• Early MAGI will increase efficiency and reduce
duplicative processes in the County Assistance
Offices.
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How does ACA affect DPW?
• Medicaid Eligibility Changes:
– Children ages 6-18 - Income up to 133% of
Federal Poverty Level (FPL)
– Former foster care children up to age 26
• ACA will NOT change eligibility or benefits for
our waiver programs for individuals with
physical and intellectual disabilities.
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System Updates and Enhancements
• COMPASS
– System design, screening, eligibility questions and
routing
– Ability to link to Federal Exchange
– Ability to obtain information from data matches in
“real time”
• CIS/eCIS/PROMISe
– Medicaid eligibility rules under ACA
– System design and screen changes
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Consumer Service Center (CSC)
• The Commonwealth has taken steps to
ensure that the needs of its citizens are met
under the new Federal ACA mandate.
• CMS mandates the availability of a call
center to take applications on the phone for
ACA.
• The CSC opened on October 1, 2013 to
answer questions about ACA and take
COMPASS applications for health care only.
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Critical Milestones
• October 2013
• Enrollment applications under the new Modified
Adjusted Gross Income (MAGI) eligibility rules begin
to be accepted
• January 2014
• Exchange coverage begins for Pennsylvania
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Questions and Comments
More information on Pennsylvania’s
implementation of the Affordable Care Act is
available at www.dpw.state.pa.us.
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