Arizona Small Group Subsidy Program

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Arizona Small Group Subsidy Program

• Chuck Bassett
• V.P. Government Relations
• Blue Cross Blue Shield of Arizona

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Arizona Small Group Subsidy Program

• Development of program
• Focus on uninsured
• Desire to advance tax credit

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Arizona Small Group Subsidy Program

• State-funded health insurance premium subsidy for
  uninsured small companies
• Temporary Eligibility limited to three years
• Small Only 5 million
• Successful The program is sold out. Wait list.

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Arizona Small Group Subsidy Program

• Administered by Arizona Department of Revenue
• Process applications and verify eligibility
• Issue subsidy eligibility certificates
• Monitor subsidy eligibility certificates to
  ensure they do not exceed the cap
• Participants present their subsidy eligibility
  certificate to insurance company

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Arizona Small Group Subsidy Program

• Eligibility for small businesses
• In existence at least one year
• No health insurance for at least six months
• 2 to 25 employees in the past year

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Arizona Small Group Subsidy Program

• Amount of subsidy for small businesses, the
  lesser of
• 50 of the premium, or
• 1,000 per employee with single coverage and
  3,000 per employee with family coverage

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Arizona Small Group Subsidy Program

• Number of participants
• 1,416 individual coverage
• 3,324 family coverage (assumes family
  size of four)
• 5 dependent coverage
• 4,745 people with coverage through
  program

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Arizona Small Group Subsidy Program

• The future
• Increase size
• Other states interested