By Enroll America

• Comments on the Interim Final Exchange Establishment Regulations

  Enroll America, May 2012

  Enroll America submitted these comments on the interim final exchange establishment regulations. They address issues related to the role of agents and brokers in exchange eligibility and enrollment, coordination between exchanges and agencies administering Medicaid and CHIP, and timeliness standards for exchange eligibility determinations.

• Comments on the Interim Final Medicaid Eligibility Regulations

  Enroll America, May 2012

  Enroll America submitted these comments on the interim final Medicaid eligibility regulations. They address privacy and security standards for data exchange, timeliness standards for Medicaid and CHIP eligibility determinations, and coordination of eligibility and enrollment processes between Medicaid, CHIP, and Exchanges.

• Design that Enhances Readability

  Enroll America, April 2012

  This piece is the third in our health literacy series authored by our partners at the MAXIMUS Center for Health Literacy. It focuses on how to use white space, alignment, and font choices to make enrollment materials easier to read and understand.
• An Enrollment Checklist for 2012

  Enroll America, March 2012

  This issue brief describes seven essential things that stakeholders can do to keep enrollment efforts on track in 2012: take advantage of opportunities for federal funding, develop an effective outreach plan, automate enrollment, minimize documentation requirements, promote data-driven, integrated eligibility systems, ensure a comprehensive approach to consumer assistance, and create materials that are easy to read and understand.

  Also see the companion two-page fact sheet.
• The Ideal Application Process for Health Coverage

  Enroll America, February 2012

  The Affordable Care Act requires states to use a single, streamlined application for all health coverage programs beginning in 2013. This issue brief explains the key steps in a streamlined application process and why they promote robust enrollment.

• Communicating with Plain Language

  Enroll America, February 2012

  This piece is the second in our health literacy series authored by our partners at the MAXIMUS Center for Health Literacy. It offers ten easy tips for writing clear, concise, user-friendly materials.

• An Introduction to Health Literacy and Enrollment

  Enroll America, December 2011

  This piece is the first in a series of issue briefs authored for Enroll America by experts at the MAXIMUS Center for Health Literacy on best practices for writing and designing materials--like websites, applications, instructions, and marketing materials--that are clear, easy to read and understand, and that make it easier for people to enroll in health coverage. The piece provides an introduction to why health literacy is important, particularly when it comes to communicating effectively with the uninsured.

• Comments on the State Exchange Certification Application

  Enroll America, January 2012

  Enroll America submitted these comments on the proposed Application for Approval of an American Health Benefit Exchange.

• Comments on the Proposed Exchange Establishment Regulation

  Enroll America, October 2011

  Enroll America submitted these comments on the proposed exchange establishment regulations. This regulation addresses topics of importance to Enroll America’s mission including the timing of the initial and annual open enrollment periods for exchange coverage, consumer assistance tools and programs available through exchanges, Navigator programs, and the single, streamlined application.

• Comments on the Proposed Exchange Eligibility Regulation

  Enroll America, October 2011

  Enroll America submitted these comments on the proposed exchange eligibility regulations. These proposed regulations address policies essential to achieving Enroll America's goal of simple, streamlined, seamless eligibility and enrollment, including applications, the eligibility and renewal process for exchange coverage and premium tax credits, coordination between exchanges and other agencies administering health coverage programs, and ensuring exchanges can offer appropriate assistance to people when they apply for and renew coverage. 

• Comments on the Proposed Medicaid Eligibility Regulation

  Enroll America, October 2011

  Enroll America submitted these comments on the proposed Medicaid eligibility regulations. The proposed regulations address topics central to Enroll America’s work, including applications, the eligibility and renewal process, coordination between agencies and the No Wrong Door approach to enrollment, and ensuring appropriate assistance is available when people apply for and renew coverage.

• Using Electronic Data to Make Enrollment Easier: A Closer Look at Utah’s eFind System

  Enroll America, August 2011

  Building systems that make optimal use of information technology to simplify enrollment is paramount to getting millions of Americans enrolled in coverage. Utah's eFind system provides one example of how to tap into existing databases to streamline the eligibility process. This piece provides an in-depth look at eFind and how it gathers readily-available electronic data from federal, state, and local databases to better determine applicant eligibility for a variety of public assistance programs.

• Ten Ways to Make Health Coverage Enrollment and Renewal Easy

  Enroll America, August 2011

  Enrolling tens of millions more Americans in health coverage beginning in 2014 will require a significant departure from the traditional thinking about enrollment processes. This piece outlines key elements of this new vision for enrollment that will position states to maximize the number of people who are quickly and easily enrolled in coverage.