Indiana is cutting off enrollment in the Healthy Indiana Plan after the program reached this year’s funding limit.
When the federal government reauthorized HIP, the health insurance program for low-income Hoosiers, last year, it required Indiana to lower the income eligibility ceiling from 200-percent of poverty – about $47,000 a year for a family of four – to 100-percent – roughly $23,000 dollars a year.
The state pays for the program through the tobacco tax, limiting its size to a monthly average of 45,000 people.