CMS Approves Indiana Medicaid Expansion Plan

On January 27, 2015, the federal Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) approved Indiana’s Medicaid redesign and expansion demonstration called the Healthy Indiana Plan 2.0 (HIP 2.0). The expansion will cover an estimated 350,000 currently uninsured low-income, non-disabled adults between the ages of 19 and 64 who earn up to 133% of the federal poverty level (FPL). HIP 2.0  will also cover 60,000 members of the state's existing Healthy Indiana Plan, which is superseded by HIP 2.0, and approximately 120,000 non-disabled adult Hoosier Healthwise members who have . . .