MassHealth Third Party Liability and Premium Assistance Contact Center Service Alert 12/ 7– MassHealth’s Third Party Liability (TPL) and Premium Assistance (PA) call centers are experiencing technical issues impacting agents’ ability to answer calls at this time. The call center lines that are impacted include TPL (888-628-7526) and PA (800-862-4840). Our team is working urgently […]
As of 11/1 MassHealth will be providing additional benefits to immigrants with medical need. To ensure continued equitable access to health coverage regardless of a members’ immigration status, effective November 1, 2021, MassHealth will expand coverage of skilled nursing facility stays and community-based services for individuals on Family Assistance when the member meets a Nursing […]
Newly arriving Afghan immigrants are likely to have different statuses and documents than assisters are used to. The Afghan parole is a new kind of benefit eligibility category that was just created 9/30/2021, existing paper MassHealth/Health Connector application forms and the online application menus do not yet show Afghan parole. We are waiting for guidance […]
MassHealth Estate Recovery On July 22nd MLRI, Margolis & Bloom and HCFA held a webinar on MassHealth Estate Recovery. You can watch the recording here or see the slide deck here. In May 2021, MassHealth amended its Medicaid estate recovery regulations to create additional grounds for waiving estate recovery on the basis of undue hardship […]
Hi Loopers, Families USA has created a fact sheet that explains the subsidies for COBRA through the American Rescue Plan. As a reminder, these subsidies go through the end of September. Families USA COBRA Subsidies Fact Sheet -Hannah
4/9/21 — The American Rescue Plan Act of 2021 suspends the requirement that taxpayers increase their tax liability by all or a portion of their excess advance payments of the Premium Tax Credit (excess APTC) for tax year 2020. A taxpayer’s excess APTC is the amount by which the taxpayer’s advance payments of the Premium Tax Credit […]
Hi Loopers, Today MassHealth sent an update about vaccine distribution including requesting that assisters help clients with setting up vaccines appointments. We want to hear from you about if this is something your site will be doing and how that works with your workflow. Share any feedback or thoughts to this thread. Thanks, Hannah
IRS has extended the deadline again for non-filers who have not yet gotten their Economic Impact Payment for 2020 to do so using non-filer tool –until Nov 21. https://www.irs.gov/newsroom/irs-extends-economic-impact-payment-deadline-to-nov-21-to-help-non-filers
Hello Loopers, You may have heard that the final public charge inadmissibility rule is out, although the language is out it is not yet posted. Here is the language: https://s3.amazonaws.com/public-inspection.federalregister.gov/2019-17142.pdf. The official version is not on the federal register yet, but is expected to be on the 14th. Here are some takeaways before our FAQ is […]
Hello Loopers! We want to hear from you about what resources would help you with your day-to-day enrollment work. Do you have ideas about materials that would be helpful? Is there a topic that you would like a deep dive into? Let us know! You can respond to this post, or email theloop@massloop.org. Hannah