Are you ready for October1? Session 2

1. Are you ready for October1?Session 2 Cherise Fowler, Outreach and Enrollment Coordinator Alaska Primary Care Association cherisef@alaskapa.org 907-929-8109

2. Latest Updates on O/E • Significant choice and lower than expected premiums available in the new Health Insurance Marketplace. Click here • The Affordable Care Act- What it Means for Rural America. Click Here • Health Center Outreach and Enrollment (O/E) Training FAQs. Click Here

3. Q&A • In Alaska we have a large population of Alaska Native individuals who are eligible to be exempted from the individual mandate. • Do they have to go thru healthcare.gov to be determined eligible for exemption? • Answer: Yes • While going thru healthcare.gov will they be simultaneously screened for Medicaid? • Answer: Yes

4. Q&A continued • Are current staff now dedicated to outreach and enrollment able to be paid out of O/E grant funds? • Answer: Yes. • 3. Must health center O/E assistance workers who are not newly hired with O/E supplemental funds complete CAC training? Yes. Regardless of whether a health center O/E assistance worker is directly supported by O/E supplemental funds, FFM and SPM health center staff, volunteers, or contracted individuals performing outreach and enrollment activities must, at a minimum, be trained as a CAC. Likewise, if your organization did not receive O/E assistance funding (e.g., you are a look-alike or did not apply for O/E supplemental funds) and you want to provide enrollment assistance, all health center O/E assistance workers must, at a minimum, be trained as a CAC. If you are unsure about if or what 2 additional training is required in your state, contact your primary care association. Contact information for the PCA in your state can be located at http://bphc.hrsa.gov/technicalassistance/partnerlinks/associations.html.

5. SHOP • Inform employees what resources are available to small community health centers. • Employer Application form • Employee Application form • Shop Brochure

6. Print Materials for Marketplace • Please visit: • http://marketplace.cms.gov/getofficialresources/get-official-resources.html • Available on the website are brochures, fact sheets, public service announcement, and talking points. Print materials to hand out to patients, enrollees, and public at events.

7. Upcoming Training for O/E • Health Center Outreach and Enrollment Technical Assistance Call: Friday, September 27 • Save the date for a call to provide further updates and guidance for all health centers who received the BPHC Outreach and Enrollment supplemental funding. During this call, we will provide: • Further details on the training requirements, • Information on promoting your health center, • An update on the quarterly progress reporting process, • An update on the CAC application process for grantees in Federally-Facilitated Marketplace states, and • A review of resources that will soon be available.   • Friday, September 27, 2013 • 3:00-4:00 ET • Conference Call Line: 1-877-917-8930, passcode 3888385.

8. Resources: www.alaskapca.org Click Outreach and Enrollment Tab. Information is being updated frequently. www.healthcare.gov www.marketplace.cms.gov Fraud:http://www.cms.gov/Newsroom/MediaReleaseDatabase/Fact-Sheets/2013-Fact-Sheets-Items/2013-09-18.html IRS: http://www.irs.gov/uac/Questions-and-Answers-on-the-Individual-Shared-Responsibility-Provision Navigators: Alaska Native Tribal Health Consortium: Charlene Walker United Way of Alaska: Joan Fisher, email: jfisher@ak.org.

9. QUESTIONS?