Cover Montana
The Cover Montana program works to connect Montanans who have questions about enrolling in health insurance options with a local enrollment enrollment assister who can walk them through the process. Enrollment assisters are located at Health Centers, Urban Indian Organizations, hospitals, Indian Health Service, Tribal Health, and other organizations. In the fall of 2021, MPCA was awarded a CMS Navigator grant to provide statewide outreach and enrollment assistance. Visit the Cover Montana website – covermt.org, to learn more about coverage options and to find free, confidential local enrollment assistance.
MPCA also provides training and technical assistance to the broader outreach and enrollment stakeholder community. Trainings are done via monthly webinars, monthly office hours, and MPCA’s annual Cover Montana Summit. Stay in the loop, sign up for the Cover Montana email list. Information about all Cover Montana and MPCA webinars is also available on the calendar.
NEW – Cover Montana launches Get Covered Again
In April 2024, Cover Montana launched Get Covered Again, a statewide re-enrollment campaign targeting the 1 in 10 Montanans who have lost health insurance coverage over the past year. Looking for resources for Get Covered Again, check out the Get Covered Again Page.
Upcoming webinars and trainings:
Cover Montana Monthly Webinars – Thursdays at 11am – Register here.
Webinars provide updates about Medicaid and the Marketplace and any emerging challenges, issues, and work arounds. Webinars often include breakout where participants can connect in smaller groups.
Cover Montana Monthly Office Hours – Thursdays at 11am – Register here.
Office Hours is a place to bring your enrollment assistance case questions. There isn’t a set agenda, just a discussion about enrollment assister questions and case issues.
SAVE – THE – DATE: Cover Montana Virtual Summit, October 9th and 10th, 2024. Registration open early September.
Recorded Cover Montana Webinars and Trainings
- May 2024 – MAGI Medicaid Basics – recording – slides
- April 2024 Cover Montana webinar – Focus on the Medicare Savings Program: recording – slides
- March 2024 Cover Montana webinar – Making Sense of Pregnancy Related Presumptive Eligibility: recording – slides
- Check out this new two-pager about enrolling in Medicaid during pregnancy, perinatal, and adding newborns.
- Links shared during the webinar: Montana DPHHS Policies on Presumptive Eligibility (PE), DPHHS Manual for Qualified Entities, Digital Copy of PE Application, Income Chart for PE Programs, Immigration documentation and qualified non-citizen information, Public charge updates for Medicaid benefits for non US Citizens
- February 2024 Cover Montana webinar: recording
- September 28, 2023 – Deep Dive: Crow/Northern Cheyenne Hospital Approach to Medicaid Unwinding: recording
- July 27, 2023 – Medicaid Unwinding Update and Overview of Medicaid Appeals Process – recording
- June 22, 2023 – Medicaid Unwinding Update – recording – slides
- May 28, 2023 – Medicaid Unwinding Update – recording – slides
- April 27, 2023 – All things Medicaid Unwinding – recording of the presentation – recording of the Q & A – slides
- March 23, 2023 – Medicaid unwinding overview and focus on SEPs – recording of the webinar – slides– Key links from webinar: NEW DPHHS Medicaid updates website
- February 23, 2023 – Medicaid unwinding overview with DPHHS – recording of the overview – recording of the Q & A – slides
2023 Cover Montana Virtual Summit Resources:
Wednesday Summit Sessions:
- State of the State & 2023 Legislative Rundown – recording – slides
- Resources: Summit Jamboard
- Keynote: Kristen Bitsuie – recording – slides
- Breakout 1: Deep Dive into MAGI Medicaid and apply.mt.gov – this session had a recording error and Cover Montana will provide a stand-alone webinar on this topic soon – slides
- Resources: Cover Montana resource on how to use apply.mt.gov to complete a renewal
- Breakout 2: Marketplace updates and walk through – recording – slides
- Fort Peck Tribally Sponsored Health Insurance Program (TSHIP) – recording
- TSHIP toolkit from Self-Governance Communication and Education Tribal Consortium
Thursday Summit Sessions:
- State of Maternal Health & Coverage options in the pre and perinatal – State of Maternal Health slides – Coverage Options slides – full session recording
- Breakout 3: Coverage to Quality – recording – slides
- Breakout 4: New Enrollment Assister Meet Up – recording
- Putting it back together: strategies to re-engage and re-enroll folks in Medicaid – recording
- 2024 Plans and Prices on the Montana Marketplace – recording – MHC slides – MHC plan comparison – BCBS slides – PS slides
