Resources About Outreach and Enrollment
Prioritizing Health Equity & Racial Justice: Now is the Moment to Close the Coverage Gap for All
As of May 2021, 38 states have closed the coverage gap. Research on the effects of expansion in these states has demonstrated the benefits of closing the gap.
ALERT: Affordability is the Next Frontier
Check out our new affordability messaging
ALERT: The American Rescue Plan: Opportunities for Advocates!
Advocates will play an important role in promoting opportunities for expanded health coverage and ensuring robust participation and input from the community.
The American Rescue Plan Act of 2021: Opportunities for Advocates
This toolkit offers resources and strategies for advocates to make consumers aware of the ARPA investments in affordable coverage and in the community infrastructure.
Make Coverage Affordable for the Long Term
The American Rescue Plan's enhancements are critical to help individuals and families’ secure health access during the pandemic and are a needed correction to the ACA subsidy scale and must be made permanent.
ALERT: Speak up NOW on the state of health care
Tomorrow night’s state of the union marks the first time President Biden will speak to Congress. Our job is to remind the Biden administration and policymakers that health care is central to infrastructure – and the time to be bold is now.
Top Legislative Priorities: 2021-22
For the first time in over ten years, Congress has an opportunity to build on the foundation created by the Affordable Care Act (ACA). The Community Catalyst 2021-22 legislative priorities reflect this unique moment.
ALERT: NEW RESOURCES to Lift Up New Medicaid Expansion Funding
With the recent passage of the American Rescue Plan, there are new, exciting federal incentives available for the 12 remaining states to expand Medicaid.
ALERT: Celebrating 11 years of the Affordable Care Act
The endurance of the ACA for over a decade is a testament to the strength of our collective efforts in the never-ending fight for progress.
Strengthening our Response: A Series to Inform an Equitable Policy Response [ Publication ]
Lessons in Health Coverage Consumer Assistance: Best Practices and Future Challenges
This report reviews the current enrollment and assistance landscape, highlights best practice approaches to consumer assistance, and identifies remaining opportunities and challenges.
Engaging Veterans in Close the Gap Campaigns
Advocates have a unique opportunity to engage veterans in campaigns to close the Medicaid coverage gap. Fifty-four percent of uninsured veterans live in states that have chosen not to draw down federal funds to improve Medicaid coverage under the ACA.
Asking the Right Questions to avoid Churn
This tip sheet provides enrollment specialists an additional tool to use to when helping consumers apply for or re-enroll in health coverage and avoid churn.
Health Insurance Churn: The Basics
This fact sheet provides basic information of health insurance churn including common factors that cause churn and its health impacts on consumers.
Fact Sheet on Safe Harbor and Repayment Caps
This fact sheet addresses frequent questions that consumer may have when they receive more in tax credits than they were supposed to, and when they must repay some or all of these credits on their taxes.
Making Health Reform Work: State Consumer Assistance Programs
Helping Consumers Find Exemptions to Avoid the Fee
This fact sheet describes twenty coverage exemptions, available from the Marketplace or on a tax return, that advocates can help low-income consumers apply for, to prevent them from owing a fee.
ACA Enrollment: Reaching People with Substance Use Disorders
Enrolling people with substance use disorders in insurance coverage through Medicaid or the new Marketplaces may require targeted outreach. This handout describes barriers to enrollment and strategies for reaching people with substance use disorders.
Life changes that give consumers a Special Enrollment Period
A memo covering the various life changes that can trigger an SEP.
Parent Eligibility Roll-Back in Rhode Island: Causes, Effects and Lessons Learned
This issue brief provides additional detail about the state policy environment at the time of the decision, efforts to mitigate the impact of this policy change, and lessons for states facing similar situations