Delaware Affordable Insurance Exchange Grants Awards List
Delaware has received two grant awards to build its Affordable Insurance Exchange. This includes a Planning Grant and a Level One Establishment Grant.
Summaries of Delaware’s applications for each grant are provided below:
Establishment Grant Level One Application Summary
Administrator: Delaware Department of Health and Social Services
Award Amount: $3,400,096
Award Date: November 29, 2011
Application Due Date: September 30, 2011
Level of Funding: Level One
Summary: The Delaware Department of Health and Social Services (DHSS) will use Level One funding for the following key activities: developing a rules-based eligibility engine that will serve as the single, streamlined eligibility process for all medical assistance programs, including Medicaid, Delaware Healthy Children (the State’s Children Health Insurance Program) and the Exchange; preparing business and IT systems requirements for non-eligibility-related functions of the Exchange, and developing an operational plan; creating a financial management and sustainability model; enhancing Delaware’s consumer health assistance; engaging stakeholders; preparing statutory and regulatory changes for commercial health insurance, as required by the Affordable Care Act; assessing the impact to the commercial health insurance market from regulatory changes, the essential health benefits package, and the introduction of an Exchange as a purchasing platform in the individual and small group markets; and, reviewing existing programs to identify opportunities to leverage services, functions and resources that may be applicable to the Exchange, as well as opportunities to modify existing programs in light of the coverage expansions that will take effect in 2014.
With approximately 100,000 Delawareans currently uninsured– the expansion of Medicaid and the availability of subsidized commercial health insurance through the Exchange should provide many of those who are currently uninsured with access to affordable health coverage.
State Planning Grant
Awarded September 30, 2010
Administrator: Delaware Department of Health and Social Services
Amount Awarded: $1,000,000
- Conduct a planning process involving key stakeholders that will enable the State to make an informed decision concerning the implementation of a Health Benefit Exchange.
- Identify the advantages and disadvantages of implementing a State-run Exchange, a regional Exchange, or an Exchange administered by the federal government.
- Utilize State resources, consultant support, and stakeholder participation to inform decision-making related to the establishment of an Exchange in the State of Delaware.
- Solicit the widest-possible involvement from public and private stakeholders through the development of targeted working groups as appropriate.
- Convene public meetings which will provide a vehicle for both dissemination of information and citizen feedback.