Integrating Dual Eligible Special Needs Plan (D-SNP) Materials

When D-SNPs operate with exclusively aligned enrollment, states can require those D-SNPs to provide information about the Medicare and Medicaid benefits covered by the D-SNP (and the D-SNP's affiliated Medicaid managed care plan, when applicable) in single, integrated materials to make those materials simpler and easier for D-SNP enrollees to understand.  The resources provided on this page share more information about how states can work with d-SNPs to integrate D-SNP materials for current and prospective enrollees.

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• Integrating Medicare and Medicaid Information in Dual Eligible Special Needs Plan Materials to Promote Enrollee Understanding of Benefits and Access to Care 

  This ICRC tip sheet will summarize the types of materials that states can require D-SNPs to integrate, as well as key considerations and steps for states working with D-SNPs on integrated materials.

• Tips to Improve Medicare-Medicaid Integration Using D-SNPs: Designing an Integrated Summary of Benefits Document

  This tip sheet describes how states can start to improve member materials by using contractual requirements to ensure that Medicare and Medicaid benefit information for aligned plans is incorporated into a single, streamlined Summary of Benefits document. (ICRC, June 2018)