Maryland

The Maryland Health Benefit Exchange Board met on May 8, 2012 to consider a number of topics including recommendations on Risk Mitigation Implementation.

Maryland's Department of Health and Mental Hygiene has created a high level timeline to prepare the state's Level II exchange funding grant application.

The Maryland Health Benefit Exchange Act of 2012 (HB 443) which is based on the recommendations developed by the Exchange board and advisory committees in 2011, addresses a wide array of Exchange implementation, operation, and evaluation issues.

The Maryland Health Benefit Exchange recently released an RFI for SHOP technology enablement.

Maryland Health Benefit Exchange Board has gathered some useful materials from its latest meeting including: MOU’s with an outside research group for Level II application assistance and a take-up study; a chart outlining the handoff of exchange administration functions from the department to the public corporation; and a presentation on SHOP exchange technology enablement options.

Wakely Consulting Group has created an overview of the business functions that must be established, the type of work that must be undertaken, and a relative timeline and chronological order for establishing Maryland's Health Benefit Exchange.

This policy analysis on the essential health benefits by the National Institute for Health Care Reform, found that states’ financial liability for mandates that exceed a minimum package of covered services,  is likely to be relatively small.

The first three state-specific reports, in a series of ten, from the Urban Institute to track and monitor the implementation process and effects of the ACA. These reports look at the progress underway in Maryland, Oregon, and Rhode Island.

This paper gives an analysis of the Basic Health Program (BHP), an optional provision under the ACA, to help guide Maryland’s decision making process on whether or not to implement a BHP.

The Board of the Maryland Health Benefit Exchange submitted to Governor O’Malley and the General Assembly a series of policy recommendations to support the successful operation of the Exchange in 2014.