Coverage

The gateway to health for individuals and the health of our community.

Goal:

Secure and retain adequate and affordable health insurance and strengthen the impact of government programs and services.

Strategies:

• Insurance outreach and enrollment
  • Increase and maintain enrollment in Medicaid, Marketplace and other health insurance options via the Milwaukee Enrollment Network with a focus on Medicaid eligibility redetermination
  • Improve health insurance literacy to reduce uncovered and uncompensated care
• Health care policy/program design and implementation
  • Inform state and local health care policies, programs and payment reforms and improvements
  • Support communication and implementation of state and local policy and regulatory changes impacting vulnerable populations

Adequate and affordable health care coverage is the gateway to health for individuals and the health of our community. For low-income families, the lack of insurance coverage is a significant barrier to access to primary, specialty and preventive services.

With nearly half of Milwaukee County residents living at 200% or below the federal poverty level, and about 5-10% of the population uninsured at any time (5.5% in 2022), a significant number continue to face economic, behavioral health, literacy, language and cultural barriers to sustaining coverage in Medicaid or the Marketplace.

Milwaukee Enrollment Network (MKEN)

The MHCP co-convenes the Milwaukee Enrollment Network (MKEN) with Covering Wisconsin, the regions’ federally designated enrollment Navigator organization. MKEN has nearly 500 participants representing 100 organizations working together to facilitate enrollment for Milwaukee County residents.  Each quarter, the MKEN publishes a Milwaukee Coverage Report.

View the latest Milwaukee Coverage Report – August 2022.

Partnership leaders continue to inform public policy, the Department of Health Services, and other regulatory bodies to ensure access to coverage and improved enrollment outcomes.  Key collaborators include the Wisconsin Hospital Association, the Wisconsin Primary Health Care Association and other advocacy groups.

Medicaid Policy and Program Reform

MHCP leaders continue to inform public policy, the Department of Health Services, and other regulatory bodies to ensure access to coverage and improved enrollment outcomes.  Key collaborators include the Wisconsin Hospital Association, the Wisconsin Primary Health Care Association and other advocacy groups.