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Opportunity Information: Apply for HHS 2009 CMS HRP 0004

• The Centers for Medicare Medicaid Services in the health sector is offering a public funding opportunity titled "Operational Grants to States for High Risk Pools" and is now available to receive applicants.
• Interested and eligible applicants and submit their applications by referencing the CFDA number(s): 93.780 Grants to States for Operation of Qualified High Risk Pools.
• This funding opportunity was created on May 14, 2009 and posted on May 14, 2009.
• Applicants must submit their applications by Jun 30, 2009 See link to full announcement for details.. (Agency may still review applications by suitable applicants for the remaining/unused allocated funding in 2024.)
• The funding agency has allocated a total of $1,500,000.00 to eligible and selected applicants.
• Each selected applicant is eligible to receive up to $1,500,000.00 in funding.
• The number of recipients for this funding is limited to 1 candidate(s).
• Eligible applicants include: Others (see text field entitled Additional Information on Eligibility for clarification).
• This is a COMPETITIVE opportunity for State High Risk Pools that do not have an active CMS Operational Losses grant beyond March 31, 2009. A qualified high risk pool as defined in sections 2744(c)(2) and 2745(g) of the PHS Act is a risk pool that (a) provides to all eligible individuals health insurance coverage (or comparable coverage) that does not impose any preexisting condition exclusion with respect to such coverage for all eligible individuals, except that it may provide for enrollment of eligible individuals through an acceptable alternative mechanism (as defined for purposes of section 2744) that includes a high risk pool as a component, and (b) provides for premium rates and covered benefits for such coverage consistent with standards included in the NAIC Model Health Plan for Uninsurable Individuals Act that was in effect at the time of the enactment of the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (August 21, 1996). To be eligible for a grant, a state must have an established qualified high risk pool that has incurred losses and (1) restricts premium charged under the pool to no more than 200 percent of the premium for applicable standard risk rates (2) offers a choice of two or more coverage options through the pool and (3) has in effect a mechanism reasonably designed to ensure continued funding of losses incurred by the state in connection with operations of the pool after the end of the last fiscal year for which a grant is provided under this paragraph. The state must provide sufficient documentation of the losses incurred in the operations of the qualified high risk pool for the covered grant period.

Apply for HHS 2009 CMS HRP 0004

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