Transcript Slides: ACA & Tobacco

Implementation of the Affordable
Care Act: Next Steps for
Tobacco Control
American Lung Association
Updated March 2013
Agenda
1. Health Insurance – today and the future
2. Affordable Care Act
1. Employer-sponsored Insurance
2. Medicaid
3. State Insurance Marketplaces
4. Prevention & Public Health Fund
3. What you can do
Comprehensive Benefit
• 7 medications
– 5 NRTs
– Bupropion
– Varenicline
• 3 types of counseling
– Individual (face-to-face)
– Group
– Phone
• Easy to access/no limits
Acronyms
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ACA = Affordable Care Act (healthcare reform)
HHS = U.S. Dept. of Health & Human Services
EHB = Essential Health Benefits
CMS = Centers for Medicare and Medicaid
Services
• USPSTF = United States Preventive Services
Task Force
• ABP = Alternative Benefit Plan
Federal Poverty Line = FPL
Persons in
family/household
FPL
200% of FPL
300% of FPL
400% of FPL
1
$11,170
22,340
33,510
44,680
2
15,130
30,260
45,390
60,520
3
19,090
38,180
57,270
76,360
4
23,050
46,100
69,150
92,200
Health Insurance Coverage in the U.S., 2011
Uninsured,
16%
Medicaid/Other
Public, 18%
Medicare,
13%
EmployerSponsored
Insurance,
49%
Total = 307.9 million
SOURCE: KCMU/Urban Institute analysis of the 2012 ASEC supplement to the CPS.
Private NonGroup, 5%
Health Insurance Coverage of the Nonelderly by
Poverty Level, 2010
Employer/Other Private
34%
29%
Medicaid/Other Public
15%
Uninsured
5%
4%
11%
30%
91%
46%
74%
41%
20%
<100% FPL
100-199% FPL
200-399% FPL
FPL= Federal Poverty Level. The FPL was $22,050 for a family of four in 2010.
Data may not total 100% due to rounding.
SOURCE: KCMU/Urban Institute analysis of 2011 ASEC Supplement to the CPS.
400%+ FPL
Affordable Care Act
• Already accomplished:
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Closing of Medicare “donut hole”
More options for people with pre-existing conditions
Extended coverage for young adults
Required all private health plans to cover preventive
care at no cost
– Tobacco cessation coverage for pregnant women on
Medicaid
– Prevention and Public Health Fund
2012 Developments
• June 2012: Supreme Court
Decision
– Upheld individual mandate
– Upheld Medicaid expansion
– Struck down enforcing mechanism for
Medicaid expansion
• November 2012: Obama reelected
– Means ACA is not likely to be
repealed
– Republicans will still try to dismantle
pieces
2013 Developments
• HHS has begun implementing 2014 changes by
releasing several proposed and final rules.
– Essential Health Benefit in state insurance
marketplaces
– Essential Health Benefit in Medicaid expansion
– Insurance ratings (including ratings based on tobacco
use)
– Wellness programs
State Insurance Marketplaces
Now
Medicaid/
CHIP
Employer
Sponsored
Insurance
Uninsured
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Income
State Insurance Marketplaces
2014
Medicaid/
CHIP
Marketplaces
Employer
Sponsored
Insurance
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Income
Employer-Sponsored Insurance
• Grandfathered vs. Nongrandfathered
• Preventive Services
– Required to cover
USPSTF ‘A’ and ‘B’-rated
services
– Required to cover with no
copay
– Recommendation re:
tobacco cessation is
vague
Employer-Sponsored Insurance
Study released in November 2012 showed that
private plans were not covering tobacco cessation
treatments in a uniform way.
• 4 out of 39 plans analyzed covered even close
to a comprehensive benefit
• Some plans included cost-sharing, which is
prohibited by ACA
What Can You Do?
• Encourage private insurance companies to
interpret the USPSTF requirement
comprehensively
• Integrate quitline and other cessation services
with health plans
• Submit comments to HHS if the opportunity
arises
Medicaid
• Supreme Court
– HHS Secretary cannot threaten to take away all
federal Medicaid funds if a state does not expand
Medicaid up to 138% FPL
• HHS
– Emphasizing flexibility so that as many states as
possible will implement the expansion
• State implementation
– ?? Decisions are ongoing
Medicaid
• Joint federal & state program
• Four types of coverage
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mandatory
states allowed to exclude
prohibited
not covered in the law
Medicaid
• Comprehensive Tobacco Cessation Benefit for
pregnant women
– October 1, 2010
– June 2011 letter to State Medicaid Directors
• Rest of people on Medicaid
– Still up to the states
Medicaid
Future changes:
• 2013: Incentive to cover preventive services
• 2014: Essential Health Benefit for new enrollees
• 2014: Tobacco cessation medications are no
longer excludable
• Ongoing: transition to managed care
EHB in Medicaid Expansion
• HHS released a proposed rule in January 2013
• Alternative Benefit Plans (ABPs) = Plans
covering Medicaid expansion population
• ABPs must cover tobacco cessation as a
preventive service
– States are allowed to charge cost-sharing
• Must cover tobacco cessation medications, but
have wide latitude in “utilization management
techniques”
Tobacco Cessation Medications
• States will no longer be able to
exclude coverage of tobacco
cessation medications in 2014
• Will this mean the drugs are truly
accessible?
– Add to preferred drug lists
– Remove barriers (utilization
management techniques)
What Can You Do?
• Find out details of your state’s Medicaid coverage
(utilization)
• Connect Health Department with Medicaid Department
• Advocate for better coverage
• Share successes
• Crunch numbers
• Keep track of your state’s progress toward 2014
Medicaid expansion
• Advocate for the expansion (if necessary)
• Advocate for an ABP that covers a comprehensive
cessation benefit
State Insurance Marketplaces
• To be implemented Jan. 1, 2014
• States must decide:
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Who has authority?
Governing structure?
Clearing house or active purchaser?
Consumer pieces
• Website
• Patient navigators
– Integration with Medicaid, CHIP, etc.
– Essential Health Benefit benchmark plan
State Insurance Marketplaces
• Three kinds of states:
– Implementing a full
marketplace on Jan. 1,
2014
– Implementing part of a
marketplace in partnership
with HHS until a full
marketplace can be
implemented
– Federally facilitated
exchange (no state
involvement)
Essential Health Benefit in
Marketplaces
• ACA: directs HHS Secretary to establish an
Essential Health Benefit – a minimum federal
standard
– Must include 10 categories of coverage
– Applies to all plans in state marketplaces
– Applies to coverage offered to newly eligible Medicaid
enrollees
Essential Health Benefit in
Marketplaces
• Each state has picked its own benchmark plan
(or defaulted to a plan)
• Benchmark plan’s coverage serves as the
Essential Health Benefit (a minimum state
standard)
• Must supplement if benchmark does not cover
all 10 categories of care
Essential Health Benefits
Bad news: A LOT of flexibility is allowed for
individual plans.
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“Substantially equal”
Specific services covered
Quantitative limits
Substitutions within categories
Medications – plan must cover as many drugs in a
category as the benchmark does
Good news: USPSTF A’s and B’s must be covered
Timeline
• Benchmark plan confirmed December 26, 2012
• 2013: determine which plans are in the
marketplace, set up technical & consumer
aspects
• Jan. 1, 2014: start date
• 2016: re-evaluation
2012
2013
2014
2015
2016
Source: http://healthreform.kff.org/en/the-states.aspx
What Can You Do?
• Find out what your state’s benchmark plan
covers for tobacco cessation
• Make contacts in Insurance Commissioner’s
office – how flexible will they be with potential
plans? Will they allow substitutions?
• Outreach to potential state marketplace plans
• Outreach to patient navigator program
Prevention and Public Health Fund
• Started at $500 million in 2010. Increases
incrementally to $2 billion in 2015.
• Purpose: provide vital funds for public health
and wellness programs
• In constant danger of being raided
• Cut by $6.25 billion in the Middle Class Tax
Relief and Job Creation Act in 2012.
Prevention and Public Health Fund
• Quitline funding
• Tips from Former Smokers Campaign (Parts 1 &
2)
• Community Transformation Grants
– support intensive approaches to reduce risk factors
responsible for the leading causes of death and
disability
– prevent and control chronic diseases
– Tobacco is a major focus
– Also focused on health disparities, including SES
Prevention and Public Health Fund
Community Transformation
Grants
– Smokefree multi-unit housing
– Smokefree community
colleges
– Smokefree workplaces
– Reducing access to tobacco
products
What Can You Do?
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Find out quitline numbers
Promote success stories
Share “Tips” ads & materials
Reach out to the media
Find CTG projects in your state
Crunch numbers
Find out how your Members of Congress voted
Advocate for protecting the Prevention Fund
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