Connecticut’s health insurance exchange, Access Health CT, has been awarded a $2.1 million grant from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services to fund the state’s In Person Assistance program (IPA).
The IPA program will seek to educate and enroll Connecticut residents in Access Health CT beginning later this year when private health coverage becomes available through the exchange.
Access Health CT will partner with the state Office of the Healthcare Advocate to administer the IPA program, which represents one component of the state’s outreach efforts to consumers as required by the Affordable Care Act.
Access Health CT CEO Kevin Counihan said the exchange would look to recruit “the best community leaders as In-Person Assisters” through a competitive request for proposal process.
“IPAs will play an important role helping to inform and sign up the uninsured of our state in the communities they live in, and we take that responsibility very seriously,” Counihan said in a Feb. 21 statement.
