Presentation by Sharon Long, "Maintaining Their Mission in Difficult Times:  Key Strategies of Safety Net Hospitals," at the AcademyHealth Annual Research Meeting, June 13, 2011 in Seattle, WA.

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Presentation by Michel Boudreaux, "Potential Gaps in the Availability of Primary Care Physicians under Health Reform:  Identifying Communities at Risk," at the AcademyHealth Annual Research Meeting, June 12 in Seattle, WA.

Presentation by Jessie Kemmick-Pintor, "Left Out Under PPACA: Undocumented Immigrants Adults Excluded from Medicaid Expansions" at the NRSA Trainees Research Conference, held in conjunction with the AcademyHealth Annual Research Meeting, June 11, 2011 in Seattle, WA.

Presentation by Lynn Blewett, "Immigrants’ access to care under the Affordable Care Act: The role of states in addressing coverage gaps," at the University of Minnesota School of Public Health's symposium, Accelerating the Future: the Changing Face of Health in America, held April 19, 2011 in Minneapolis, MN.

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The Affordable Care Act (ACA) expands Medicaid eligibility to millions of previously-ineligible people, changes the income definition used to determine eligibility, and provides an enhanced federal medical assistance percentage (FMAP) to newly-eligible enrollees. 

In this webinar, Dr. John Czajka, a senior fellow at Mathematica Policy Research, discusses the eligibility challenges that states face under the ACA’s Medicaid provisions and suggests several ways that states might choose to move forward.  Joining Dr. Czajka is Karen Gibson, Director of Health Care Eligibility and Access at the Minnesota Department of Human Services.  Ms. Gibson speaks about the experience of Minnesota, which has adopted an early Medicaid expansion for adults permitted under the ACA.