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Issue #3 | December 4, 2018
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بالغوں کے لیے نیا ہیلتھ کور یج
For those of you who do not speak Urdu, Bengali, or Vietnamese, that means New Health Coverage for Adults. Advocates asked us for information they could share in the many languages spoken by their friends and neighbors in diverse communities across the Commonwealth. You can now find a brand new flyer on coverva.org that is available in 18 languages, including Kurdish, Russian, and Nepali.
You’ll find them all on the Medicaid expansion page. Don’t forget that we also have flyers in multiple languages on coverva.org about our FAMIS program for children’s health insurance as well. They are all available for print or order on our materials page.
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December 19: Medicaid cards mailed to new members
- December 26: Letters sent assigning new members to health plans, giving them 90 days from January 1 to decide whether to keep that plan or choose a different one
- January 1, 2019: Coverage begins for newly eligible adults
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Thanksgiving Milestone
 Virginia celebrated Thanksgiving by achieving a major milestone, topping 100,000 newly enrolled members under the new eligibility rules for Medicaid expansion.
Medicaid cards will be mailed to these new members on December 19, and letters assigning them to a health plan will be mailed on December 26. Individuals have 90 days from January 1 to decide whether to keep the plan they were automatically enrolled in, or to select a plan of their choice.
Starting on January 1, 2019, these individuals will be able to receive services that include doctor visits, hospital stays and prescription drugs.
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Virginia's Top Doc
 Governor Ralph Northam was the guest of honor at the grand finale in an 11-part series of provider outreach events across the Commonwealth this fall. Check out this video from his remarks in which he discusses the importance of Medicaid expansion from his perspective as a pediatric neurologist and as the 73rd Governor of the Commonwealth of Virginia.
The event was hosted by Bon Secours St. Mary’s Hospital in Henrico County. More than 500 health care providers attended one of the outreach events. They were given brochures and provider toolkits to help them talk with their patients about the new Medicaid eligibility rules.
Providers also were encouraged to begin accepting Medicaid members or to take more members. Representatives from Virginia Medicaid’s six health plans attended to answer questions about credentialing and contracting.
The full video of the provider event at St. Mary’s will be available for viewing soon on the DMAS website’s Medicaid expansion provider page.
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Hop on the Bus!
 The next time you take the bus to work, look for new advertisements educating Richmond adults about Virginia Medicaid’s new eligibility rules. The ads are supported by a collaborative group of local funders. English interior ads will run for three months from mid-November through mid-February, and Spanish interior ads will run for two months through mid-January. The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation is also helping to get the word out through videos that are being shown at pharmacy kiosks around Virginia. You can watch the video on our website. These initiatives are helping to supplement DMAS’ advertising campaign currently underway. The campaign includes radio spots, digital ads, billboards, newspaper ads, and gas station fuel tank toppers.
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