Slides from a webinar on January 26, 2016. What does the future hold for Affordable Care Act outreach and enrollment? Learn the most important takeaways from OE3, updates from Enroll America staff about the on-the-ground, online, and coalition-driven strategies that have been proven to increase enrollment, and insights from data on how to reach consumers as effectively as possible.
Financial Help: PerryUndem found that cost was the main reason uninsured individuals had not signed up (61%), and 59% of those individuals who “can’t afford” insurance do not understand or have not heard of the tax credit. Furthermore, 6 in 10 are confused or have not heard about tax credits. There remains an incredible opportunity to continue to engage the remaining uninsured about the availability of financial help and to help consumers understand how tax credits can help reduce the cost of coverage.
Enroll America has created these five messages informed by:
Polling of the uninsured and newly-insured
Focus groups
Previous messaging studies
Our own on-the-ground experience
What does it mean?
These are five key messages every consumer needs to hear about the Affordable Care Act
By integrating these messages into your outreach and press, you can speak to the issues that people most care about
It’s particularly exciting to see the continued growth of new enrollees through HealthCare.gov.
More Enrolled.
From 11.7 in OE2 to 12.7 in OE3.
More New People Enrolled.
4 million new people enrolled in HC.gov states in OE3.
More Actively Renewing.
Of the 5.6 million OE3 reenrollees through HC.gov, 70% actively shopped for a new plan.
Acted earlier.
A larger proportion of new enrollees through HC.gov got covered before the December deadline (63 percent in OE3 vs. 40 percent in OE2).
Since OE2 (March 2015), we identified over 42,000 uninsured individuals. On average, that’s 124 per day!
Nationally, we have acquired 1.7 million consumer e-mail addresses. 33% of them are from field outreach efforts.
Sources:
CMS Weekly Marketplace Enrollment Snapshot
ASPE January Marketplace Enrollment Report, 1/9/16
ASPE, Health Insurance Marketplace 2016: Average Premium After Advance Premium Tax Credits In The 38 States Using The Healthcare.Gov Eligibility And Enrollment Platform, January 2016, https://aspe.hhs.gov/pdf-document/health-insurance-marketplaces-2016-average-premiums-after-advance-premium-tax-credits-38-states-using-healthcaregov-eligibility-and-enrollment-platform
Across the country, we scheduled over 95,000 Connector appointments. At least 33,500 ended in enrollment (35%).
Toplines OE3 numbers
Appointments in 38 states + DC
966,000 appointments offered
97,000 appointments scheduled
62,000 appointments completed
37,000 recorded enrollment/renewals
Appointment purpose
In OE3, assisters reported the outcomes of about 57,000 completed appointments. Almost two-thirds (64 percent) of these appointments led to enrollment or renewal.
Seven in ten of all enrollments/renewals were for marketplace coverage. Three in 10 were for Medicaid/CHIP.
Renewals represented 14 percent of all enrollment/renewals, including 16 percent of marketplace enrollment/renewals and 10 percent of Medicaid enrollment/renewals.
Popular times
Weekday appointments between 8am and 4pm made up three-quarters of all appointments offered, while weekday evenings (4-8pm) and weekend (any time) appointments were offered far less often.
Consumers made the most number of appointments on weekday mornings;
Mornings (except Sundays) and weekend afternoons have the highest scheduling rates among appointments offered and Saturday mornings far outpacing all other times— 19 percent of Saturday morning appointments scheduled compared with the average uptake of 10 percent.
Distance to appointments
Average distance consumers traveled to an appointment was 4.6 miles, which is almost the same as last year’s 4.4 miles
An easy way to partner with Enroll America is to embed our tools that are free to partners, so if you’re thinking how can my organization work with EA – this is a great way. And these tools are great resources to provide your patients with to help them find the plan that best fits their needs and budget.
1. The Get Covered Calculator, available in English and Spanish, is a tool that consumers can enter some basic info into and see how much financial help they could qualify for. Affordability is often the number one question consumers have about their coverage options, and we have found that in OE3 nearly 1 in 4 consumers who used the Calculator immediately went on to start the enrollment process.
2. The Get Covered Connector, available in English and Spanish, is a tool that connects consumers to free local in-person application assistance. Recent research shows that seven in 10 uninsured individuals want one-on-one help understanding their insurance options. This year, the Connector will feature over one million available appointments for free, expert help.
3. The Get Covered Plan Explorer is a digital decision support tool that provides personalized information to help consumers estimate total health-care costs for the year under each plan available in their area, so they can make sure they are getting the best possible deal for their health care needs.
- These tests will be able to inform work being planned for OE4 and considerations for our work.
For many of our channels we seek to learn things in two different ways:
1st is though observational learning where we look at the data collected and see what trends we can learn from it.
-For the connector we can learn about outcomes – the number of appointments that ended in successful enrollment – and the kinds of enrollment (pie chart on last slide).
-We can also learn other facts from the data such as the basic distance a consumer traveled to their appointment, in this case about 4.6 miles.
2nd – we also seek to do experiment leaning where we start with one or more questions and try to find answers
-We saw during OE 2 that some about 1 in 5 consumers failed to show for their appointments and that lead to a question.
-HOW can we increase attendance?
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For the 2016 cohort, we are excited to offer two tracks: a fundamental track for partners who are new to the program and a leadership track for partners who would benefit from more advanced training to further their outreach and enrollment programs.
The leadership track training agenda include:
Workshopping the OE4 plan, Constituency-specific outreach, Using the Connector, Refining your earned media program, Engaging Agents and Brokers, Running an E-mail program
The fundamental track training agenda topics include:
The Enrollment Landscape, Identifying the Uninsured, Plan writing, Creating a data-driven program, Building capacity through partnership, Connector Deep Dives