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HB 366 Children's Medical Security Insurance Plan (CMSIP); outreach.

Introduced by: Robert H. Brink | all patrons    ...    notes | add to my profiles

SUMMARY AS INTRODUCED:

Virginia Children's Medical Security Insurance Plan (CMSIP); outreach. Requires certain outreach activities, including: (i) Virginia's Title XXI Plan to provide for coordinated implementation of publicity, enrollment, and service delivery with existing local programs throughout the Commonwealth that provide medical services, educational services, and case management services to children and (ii) the Board of Medical Assistance Services' regulations to include a comprehensive, statewide community-based outreach plan to enroll eligible children in CMSIP. The outreach plan must be developed and implemented in cooperation with the Department of Social Services and local social services agencies and other private and public outreach programs. The outreach plan must include, but need not be limited to, (i) a requirement that each regional social services agency hire an outreach coordinator; (ii) a blueprint, developed with the Department of Education and the local school division superintendents, for conducting outreach through the public schools of the Commonwealth which takes into consideration all requirements for delivery of health services by local school divisions; (iii) a procedure for directly contacting families who have received Temporary Assistance to Needy Families (TANF) at any time since June 1997, whose children are not enrolled in Medicaid or CMSIP, to provide such families with information and applications for CMSIP; (iv) a requirement that, in any locality in which 1,000 or more children are estimated to be eligible for CMSIP and enrollment is less than the statewide average enrollment, at least one caseworker shall be identified as the Children's Health Insurance Eligibility Specialist; and (v) such other strategies for informing the parents of eligible children as may be appropriate, such as educational activities, public service announcements, targeted mailings, and local community activities. This provision also requires the establishment, by the Department of Medical Assistance Services, of an Outreach Oversight Committee composed of representatives from community-based organizations engaged in outreach activities, social services eligibility workers, the provider community, and consumers. Quarterly meetings will be for the purpose of discussing strategies to improve outreach activities and to make recommendations regarding outreach, coordination, and procedures for streamlining and simplifying the application process, brochures, other printed materials, forms, and applicant correspondence.


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