CMS last week approved Indiana's proposed plan to...

...allow members of its Healthy Indiana Plan (HIP), which serves the state's Medicaid expansion population, to spend up to $1,000 of their annual HIP benefits on commercial insurance fees if they make the transition to private coverage. The state provides HIP members with $2,500 per year in a "POWER" account, which functions similarly to a health savings account. Former HIP members can use the $1,000 balance on commercial premiums, deductibles, copayments and other forms of cost-sharing. The state's Medicaid program currently serves 398,615 expansion members, who represent about 28% of the overall Medicaid population.

From AIS’s Directory of Health Plans