Intermountain collaborates with UHPP to provide health access assisters
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Intermountain Healthcare is collaborating with the Utah Health Policy Project (UHPP) to lower the uninsured rate in Utah with health access assisters. Health access assisters find vulnerable and underserved populations to help them with health insurance coverage and understanding the complex processes, like applying for insurance, both before and after enrollment.
Slonaker said as this program grew, Intermountain started to notice UHPP’s efforts and wanted to provide monetary support to this program.
“Intermountain’s collaboration represents what I hope could be a game-changer in reducing Utah’s uninsured rate.”
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Many Utahns have lost their health insurance during the COVID-19 pandemic, but subsidized coverage is now available through the Affordable Care Act.
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You may know it as Obamacare.
But nowadays, the Affordable Care Act (ACA) has a new moniker, Bidencare, because President Joe Biden ordered the Health Insurance Marketplace reopened through May 15 to help Utahns and others who lost health insurance during the COVID-19 crisis get a subsidized plan.
The Biden administration is putting $50 million into marketing and advertising the special enrollment period to guide qualified Utahns through the process of getting covered.
Stacy Stanford, health policy analyst for the Utah Health Policy Project and the Take Care Utah Network, said health advocates have been pushing for the marketplace to reopen since the beginning of the pandemic.
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SALT LAKE CITY Citing a rising rate in the number of uninsured children 87,000 in Utah two lawmakers are hoping the state will open its wallet to fund efforts to get health care coverage for all kids.
“We are a state that deeply cares for kids,” SB158 sponsor Senate Minority Whip Luz Escamilla, D-Salt Lake City, said Tuesday during a virtual news conference with lawmakers and the nonprofit group Voices for Utah Children.
And yet “we have one of the highest rates of uninsurance when it comes to children,” she said.
| Updated: Feb. 11, 2021, 10:54 p.m.
Community leaders, families and some Utah lawmakers are speaking out in support of two bills aimed at making health insurance more accessible to all Utah children.
Utah currently has one of the highest rates of uninsured children, with about 87,000 kids who aren’t covered. Organizations like the Utah Health Policy Project have been concerned about the continuously rising uninsured rate, particularly among Hispanic children. 2018 marked the 30th year row in which Utah had the highest rate of uninsured Latino children in the nation, at 90%.
SB158, sponsored by Sen. Luz Escamilla, D-Salt Lake City, would ensure that all Utah children whose family income is at or below 200% of the federal poverty level would get access to Medicaid or the Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP), depending on their income bracket.