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NC Get Covered

Mission

NC Get Covered is a statewide, non-partisan initiative that convenes and educates diverse organizations interested in connecting North Carolinians to health coverage. Our coalition partners include community-based organizations, enrollment assisters, health insurance carriers, agents and brokers, health care providers, hospitals, faith organizations, community health centers and more.

If you wish to join us in this important effort to help North Carolinians get covered and stay covered, click here.

Staff

Megan Bolejack, NC Get Covered Coordinator
Email: mbolejack@caresharehealth.org
Phone: 919-861-8360

Advisory Board

NC Get Covered’s Advisory Board meets on a monthly basis and is charged with:

  • Ensuring NC Get Covered fulfills its purpose to convene and educate diverse organizations interested in connecting North Carolinians to health coverage.
  • Ensuring NC Get Covered is responsive to the needs of coalition member organizations, thus helping to ensure the successful implementation of the Federal Health Insurance Marketplace.
  • Ensuring the process by which the above activities occur is participatory, transparent, inclusive and consensus-oriented.

Current Advisory Board members include:

  • Lara Antonenko, Market Manager, Individual and Family Plans, Cigna
  • Jeff Bontekoe, Regional Sales Director, Bright Health
  • Sherie Bryan, Insurance Agent/Broker, Health Plans Raleigh
  • Jeremy Gillespie, Supervisor, Navigator Support, Centene’s Ambetter
  • Jennifer Grady, Health Policy Office, Blue Cross and Blue Shield of NC
  • Sherry Hay, Director of Community Health Initiatives, UNC Department of Family Medicine
  • Jason McKito, NC Broker Manager, Bright Health
  • April Morgan, Outreach and Enrollment Coordinator, NC Community Health Center Association
  • Alex Noriega, Outreach and Enrollment Coordinator, High Country Community Health Center
  • Jan Plummer, Health Care Navigator Coordinator, Mountain Projects, Inc.
  • Nicholas Riggs, Navigator Project Assistant Director, Legal Aid of NC
  • Tammie Solomon, Senior Consumer Analyst, Health Insurance Smart NC, NC Department of Insurance
  • Neissly Tapia, ACA Outreach Worker, NC Farmworkers Project
  • Julieanne Taylor, Attorney/Health Insurance Navigator, Charlotte Center for Legal Advocacy
  • Mark Van Arnam, Navigator Project Director, Legal Aid of NC
  • Trish Vandersea, Director of Population Health Initiatives, NC Healthcare Association
  • Walker Wilson, Chief Policy Officer, NC DHHS Secretary’s Office

Background

In February 2013, a group of 40 organizations met to discuss North Carolina’s participation in the Federal Health Insurance Marketplace, as our state opted not to create its own health benefit exchange under the Affordable Care Act.

Within six months, this group of 40 organizations grew to nearly 100 and became known as the “Big Tent.” Big Tent meetings were held on a biweekly basis and provided a forum for concerned organizations and advocates to interact with each other and discuss the implementation of ACA policies, regulations and programs in North Carolina.

In April 2013, federal funding became available to community groups that wanted to engage in ACA work. Select members of the Big Tent coalesced to become the North Carolina Navigator Consortium and received $1.9 million to assist uninsured North Carolinians with enrolling in the Federal Health Insurance Marketplace. This award was the fourth highest in the country.

In 2014, with generous support from the Kate B. Reynolds Charitable Trust, the Big Tent was able to create a more formal infrastructure, called NC Get Covered, and hire full-time staff. Care Share Health Alliance, a non-profit organization that works with state and local partners to improve underserved populations’ access to care and overall health, serves as NC Get Covered’s administrative home. To learn more about Care Share, click here.

Upcoming Meetings

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Past Meetings

Recent News Items

For more information about the Affordable Care Act – including ACA outreach, education and enrollment resources as well as support for consumers and in-person assisters – please visit the websites below.

Enrollment & Consumer Resources

In-Person Assister Resources

To view a list of training resources for outreach and enrollment assisters, please click here.

Safety Net Resources

In-person assisters play a vital role in North Carolina’s efforts to educate consumers about their health insurance options under the Affordable Care Act; enroll them into coverage on the Federal Health Insurance Marketplace; and teach them how to use their insurance, including helping consumers understand confusing health insurance terminology, like co-pays and deductibles. For those consumers who do not qualify for coverage under the ACA, in-person assisters can help them locate other low-cost resources in their local community, like community health centers and free clinics.

NC Get Covered appreciates the compassion, dedication and skill that North Carolina assisters bring to your work every day. Below is a list of training resources to help ensure your continued success as we all strive to reach the remaining uninsured in our state.

OE6 Resources for Enrollment Assisters

2019 Qualified Health Plans Webinar Training – October 2018 (Dropbox link) 

Please click on the Dropbox link above to view materials from webinars held with Ambetter, Blue Cross and Blue Shield of NC, and Cigna regarding their 2019 Qualified Health Plans. To listen to the recordings, please click on the links below and use the password “outreach.”

2018 Qualified Health Plans Regional Trainings with BCBSNC (Dropbox link)

To view materials from Blue Cross and Blue Shield of NC’s 2018 Qualified Health Plans training (held in different parts of the state), please click on the Dropbox link above. 

2017 Qualified Health Plans Webinar Training – November 3, 2016 (Dropbox link)

Please click on the Dropbox link above to view materials from NC Get Covered’s statewide webinar on the 2017 Qualified Health Plans offered by Blue Cross and Blue Shield of NC and Cigna. 

2016 Qualified Health Plans Webinar Training – November 4, 2015 (Dropbox link)

On November 4, 2015, NC Get Covered hosted a webinar training for nearly 300 enrollment assisters across the state concerning North Carolina’s 2016 Qualified Health Plans. Please click on the Dropbox link above to view materials from the statewide training.

Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services

The official Marketplace information source for assisters and outreach partners. On this site, you will find information about assister programs and tools to help existing and new Health Insurance Marketplace consumers.

Georgetown University’s Navigator Resource Guide

This guide is focused solely on the private insurance reforms of the Affordable Care Act, including the health insurance marketplaces, rating, benefit and cost structures, and premium tax credits. It is intended to supplement the Navigator training available from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. It is not intended to be a comprehensive, stand-alone resource for all the reforms of the Affordable Care Act.

Health Reform Beyond the Basics

A project of the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities designed to provide training and resources that explain health coverage available through Medicaid, CHIP, and the Marketplace. It is aimed at navigators, advocates, state and local officials and others who help consumers get and keep their health coverage.

In the Loop

An online community where people who are engaged in helping individuals enroll in health insurance can interact with others doing similar work. As a member of the In the Loop community, you will be able to engage with other enrollment specialists across the country to share best practices, successes and lessons learned. You’ll be able to troubleshoot your problems and hear how other enrollment specialists have overcome similar challenges.

IPA Conference in Greensboro, NC – October 22, 2018 (Dropbox link) 

The 2018 Educate, Empower, Enroll Conference for NC In-Person Assisters provided an opportunity for more than 100 outreach and enrollment staff from across the state to network and get excited about Open Enrollment Period 6. To view materials from the conference, please click on the Dropbox link above.

IPA Conference in Greensboro, NC – October 4-5, 2016 (Dropbox link)

Two hundred enrollment assisters from across the state met in Greensboro on October 4-5, 2016 to network, share best practices, and get excited about Open Enrollment Period 4. Click on the Dropbox link above to view resources from the statewide conference.

IPA Conference in Greensboro, NC – October 13, 2015 (Dropbox link)

The 2015 Educate, Empower, Enroll Conference for NC In-Person Assisters provided an opportunity for outreach and enrollment staff from across the state to network, share best practices, and get excited about Open Enrollment Three. Click on the Dropbox link above to view resources from the conference.

Kaiser FAQs

Provided by the Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation, in-person assisters can find answers to important questions about the Affordable Care Act, including marketplace eligibility, minimum essential coverage, cost-sharing reductions and more!

NCCHCA Outreach & Enrollment Partners Newsletter (Dropbox link)

Written by staff at the NC Community Health Center Association, these newsletters provide outreach and enrollment partners with news and updates related to the Marketplace, new resources, tips and workarounds, and upcoming dates to remember.

NC Rural Health Leadership Alliance (Dropbox link)

Resources from the NC Rural Health Leadership Alliance’s Health Insurance and Safety Net Resources Work Group, including Medicaid Expansion talking points and a report titled, “The Impact of the Affordable Care Act on Rural North Carolina”.  

 

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