DOA:......Lessner, BB0412 - Health Insurance Navigator Funding
For 2025-2027 Budget -- Not Ready For Introduction
An Act ...; relating to: the budget.
Analysis by the Legislative Reference Bureau
INSURANCE
Funding for health insurance navigators
This bill directs the commissioner of insurance to award $500,000 in fiscal year 2025-26 and $500,000 in fiscal year 2026-27 to a licensed navigator to prioritize services for the direct care workforce population. Navigators are individuals or entities that perform certain duties including conducting public education activities to raise awareness of the availability of qualified health plans, distributing fair and impartial information concerning enrollment in qualified health plans, facilitating enrollment in qualified health plans, and providing referrals for any enrollee with a grievance, complaint, or question regarding their health plan, coverage, or a determination under such plan or coverage.
For further information see the state fiscal estimate, which will be printed as an appendix to this bill.
The people of the state of Wisconsin, represented in senate and assembly, do enact as follows:
Section 9123. Nonstatutory provisions; Insurance.
(1) Funding for health insurance navigators.
(a) In this subsection:
1. “Commissioner” means the commissioner of insurance.
2. “Navigator” means an individual navigator licensed under s. 628.92 (1) or a navigator entity licensed under s. 628.92 (2).
(b) From the appropriation under s. 20.145 (1) (g), the commissioner shall award $500,000 in fiscal year 2025-26 and shall award $500,000 in fiscal year 2026-27 to a navigator to prioritize services for the direct care workforce population.
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