Deborah Fornier, Medicaid director for the state of New Hampshire, told lawmakers on the Idaho Legislature’s working group on health coverage this morning that in her state, Medicaid was expanded in 2014 to cover all eligible adults, along with a requirement that the state apply for a federal waiver effective in 2016. It did so, and now New Hampshire has shifted the entire Medicaid expansion population from its standard Medicaid managed-care program to a program in which the state pays the premiums for those individuals to purchase commercial insurance through the federal insurance exchange that operates in their state.
That meant 48,000 people were shifted over. “We in essence doubled the number of people in the federal marketplace in New Hampshire,” Fournier said. The state’s Legislature has now extended the program for two more years, through 2018. New Hampshire had expected to see 60,000 people be covered by its Medicaid expansion, but numbers …
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