Rhode Island Affordable Insurance Exchange Grants Awards List
Rhode Island has received four grant awards to build its Affordable Insurance Exchange. This includes a Planning Grant, an Early Innovator Grant, a Level One Establishment Grant and a Level Two Establishment Grant.
Summaries of Rhode Island’s applications for each grant are provided below:
Establishment Grant Level Two Application Summary
Administrator: Rhode Island Department of Business Regulation
Award Amount: $58,515,871
Award Date: November 29, 2011
Application Due Date: September 30, 2011
Level of Funding: Level Two
Summary: Rhode Island will use Level Two funding to continue work already underway through its Level One grant, which includes: operations, information technology (IT) infrastructure design and development; establishment of an integrated consumer support structure; reporting and evaluation; establishment of governance structures and staffing. Under the Level Two grant, Rhode Island will begin building its capacity in the following critical areas: health plan certification and qualification; financial sustainability; and oversight and financial integrity.
The State plans to implement these project areas as a single, integrated initiative, led jointly by Medicaid and Exchange leadership. The State will continue to work closely with the New England States Collaborative Insurance Exchange Systems collaborative and leverage IT systems knowledge and design where appropriate and feasible. Its total federal request is intended to fund the seven major projects listed below, plus implementation of technology components, which will be reviewed and refined through IT reviews conducted by CCIIO. Funding will be provided through December 31, 2014.
Establishment Grant Level One Application Summary
Administrator: Rhode Island Department of Business Regulation
Award Amount: $5,240,668
Award Date: May 23, 2011
Application Due Date: March 30, 2011
Level of Funding: Level One
Summary: Rhode Island will use resources from the Affordable Care Act to strengthen health information technology systems, develop an integrated consumer support program to provide support to individuals and small businesses, and strengthen its business operations
Early Innovator Grant
Grantee: University of Massachusetts Medical School
Award Amount: $35,591,333
This is a multi-State consortia proposal led by the University of Massachusetts Medical School and will benefit individuals and small businesses in Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, and Vermont. These consumers will be able to shop for, select, and purchase affordable and high-quality health plans. The proposed project approach will be to create and build a flexible Exchange information technology framework in Massachusetts and share those products with other New England states. The proposal hopes to learn from the Massachusetts Exchange implementation and gain efficiencies so it can accelerate Exchange development for participating New England states.
State Planning Grant
Awarded September 30, 2010
Administrator: Office of the Health Insurance Commissioner
Amount Awarded: $1,000,000
- Create an Interagency Task Force to assure activities supported by grant are appropriately coordinated.
- Compare cost and benefit of State run Exchange versus federally run Exchange
- Create an operations plan which provides staffing plan.
- Coordinate eligibility and enrollment with Medicaid.
- Develop a product design and contracting plan.
- Create a data and evaluation plan.
- Put in place information system requirements support.