Healthy Indiana Plan: Key Facts and Issues


 

Publication Date: June 2008

Publisher: Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation

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Research Area: Health

Keywords: Medicaid

Type: Fact sheet

Coverage: Indiana

Abstract:

This fact sheet provides an overview of Indiana's new Medicaid waiver program, the Healthy Indiana Plan, which is the first that allows a state to use Medicaid funds to provide a benefit package modeled after a high-deductible plan and health savings account to previously uninsured adults.  This piece examines key components of the plan and identifies key issues to consider. Â