White Papers

01.16.14

Integrating Physical and Behavioral Health: Strategies for Overcoming Legal Barriers to Health Infor

Manatt authored an issue brief, "Integrating Physical and Behavioral Health: Strategies for Overcoming Legal Barriers to Health Information Exchange," that explores the strategies states use to address legal barriers that impede data-sharing efforts among providers to integrate physical ...


12.11.13

Report from the States: Early Observations about Five State Marketplaces

Manatt prepared an issue brief for the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation's State Health Reform Assistance Network that focuses on five state health insurance marketplaces to assess lessons that might help to explain trends in the initial months of open enrollment. Based on interviews with state ...


11.20.13

Fast Track to Coverage: Facilitating Enrollment of Eligible People into the Medicaid Expansion

Beginning January 1, 2014, millions of low-income parents and other adults will become newly eligible for coverage in states implementing the Affordable Care Act's (ACA's) expansion of Medicaid to adults with incomes at or below 138% of the federal poverty level. To help states launch the ...


04.18.13

Coverage Alternatives for Low and Modest Income Consumers

To ensure a seamless system of coverage, the Affordable Care Act (ACA) requires a single streamlined application for all Insurance Affordability Programs (IAPs) and a coordinated process for IAP eligibility and enrollment. States looking beyond the eligibility and enrollment process can utilize a ...


04.15.13

Simplified, Real-Time Verification Issue Brief

The Affordable Care Act (ACA) requires a coordinated and streamlined eligibility and enrollment process for all Insurance Affordability Programs (IAPs), including Medicaid, the Children's Health Insurance Plan (CHIP), and advance premium tax credits/cost sharing reductions to purchase ...


02.28.13

Medicaid Managed Care for Children in Foster Care

In recent years New York State has gradually moved high-need populations out of fee-for-service arrangements and into managed care to improve quality and lower costs. The transition of children in foster care to Medicaid managed care is scheduled to take place in April 2013 for the nearly 6,000 ...


02.01.13

Estimated Financial Effects of Expanding Oregon's Medicaid Program under the Affordable Care Act (20

The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA) calls for states to expand Medicaid to low income adults and provides federal funds to cover 100 percent of the costs of these "newly eligibles" from 2014 through 2016. The federal matching rate will then decrease over the next four ...


01.01.13

Privacy, Please: Health Consent Laws for Minors in the Information Age

In many states, minors can get abortions, treatment for sexually transmitted diseases, or mental health services without their parents' knowledge or consent. In the era of electronic health information exchange (HIE), however, maintaining this confidentiality is a vexing challenge. Information ...


01.01.13

Premium Collection in State Based Exchanges

Health Insurance Exchanges organized pursuant to the Affordable Care Act (ACA) have certain requirements and several options with respect to providing premium collection services for small businesses and individual consumers purchasing qualified health plans (QHPs) in 2014. While collection ...


12.01.12

Are We Wired Yet? Measuring the Progress of HITECH in California

Three years after the passage of the Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health (HITECH) Act, marked progress among California's providers has been made, although there is room for progress toward widespread use of electronic health information to improve the quality and ...