HIGHLIGHT
Nebraska’s Expanded Medicaid (Heritage Health Adult) Enrollment is Finally Here!
Help spread the word to the over 94,000 newly eligible Nebraskans with Enroll Nebraska Medicaid Expansion Outreach Toolkit. We’ve got newsletter blurbs, postcards, tweets, posts, images – you name it, we’ve got it! We’ve also updated our website to acknowledge Enroll Nebraska enrollment assisters can help with expanded medicaid too.
If you have questions about the new expanded Medicaid program in Nebraska, email DHHS.MedicaidExpansionQuestions@Nebraska.gov.
UPCOMING EVENTS
If you know about health care-related and/or outreach and enrollment events happening in your area, visit our events page and enter your event into our Submit An Event form.
EVENTS
Find recordings and slides from HCAN/DHHS Medicaid Expansion training webinars in the “Resources” section below.
Nebraska Legislative Session Conclusion – July 20- August 13, 2020
First Day of Medicaid Expansion Enrollment – August 1, 2020
First Day of Medicaid Expansion Coverage – October 1, 2020
Health Insurance Marketplace Open Enrollment 8 – November 1 – December 15, 2020
NEWS AND UPDATES
If you’d like more health-related news, we recommend Kaiser Health News to sign up for periodic email updates.
NTV ABC: Amid coverage losses, ‘Obamacare’ enrollments are up
Close to half a million people who lost their health insurance amid the economic shutdown to slow the spread of COVID-19 have gotten coverage through HealthCare.gov, the government reported Thursday.
1011Now: Nebraska Medicaid expansion enrollment starts online Aug. 1
Nebraska is preparing for Medicaid expansion, set to go into effect Oct. 1, with an online application process starting Aug. 1.
RESOURCES
On Nebraska Medicaid Expansion:
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- HCAN/DHHS Medicaid Expansion Training Webinar Resources
- Medicaid 101 Training for Enrollment Assisters, presented July 8, 2020
- DHHS Expanded Medicaid Program Overview for Enrollment Assisters, presented on July 15, 2020
- Nebraska Managed Care Organization Expanded Medicaid Plan Presentation, presented on July 17, 2020
- HCAN/DHHS Medicaid Expansion Training Webinar Resources
- Enroll Nebraska Resources
Coronavirus:
- CBPP: Special Enrollment Period Reference Chart
- CBPP: COVID-19 FAQ to reflect the recent policy changes around SEPs.
- CMS has released a Virtual Toolkit to help you stay up-to-date on CMS materials available on COVID-19.
- The Asian and Pacific Islander American Health Forum is continually updating its COVID-19 resource bank with Asian American, Native Hawaiian, and Pacific Islander in-language information.
Trump Administration Rule 1557 regulation that removes Obama-era protections for the transgender community
- Nebraska Appleseed blog post: The administration releases extremely harmful rule eliminating anti-discrimination protections in health care
- Messaging guidance from the National Women’s Law Center
- Social media toolkit from National Center for Transgender Equality