BROWARD REGIONAL HEALTH PLANNING COUNCIL INC

The Health Insurance Continuation Program provides financial assistance, to clients who meet the eligibility criteria and are enrolled in a Marketplace plan, identified by the Ryan White Program. Financial assistance is provided to eligible individuals living with HIV to maintain or obtain medical benefits through the health insurance continuation program. HICP assist with Copay, deductibles, and coinsurance.

Copay Assistance: For upcoming medical appointments please contact HICP at least 48 hours prior to the date of appointment. Please provide the name of the location for the office visit, office phone number and appointment date & time. Appointment information can be forwarded to HICP via email, text to cell phone number or by calling HICP. The provider must be in network with your ACA insurance and provider must be able to take phone payments.

Prescription copayments: HICP provides copay assistance on non-HIV medications and medications that are covered by insurance. Please contact HICP once your medication(s) are ready for pick-up and provide the pharmacy name and phone number via phone, email or text.

Broward Regional Health Planning Council, Inc. has recently been awarded funding to implement the Nurse-Family Partnership model in Broward County through partnership with Broward Health and Memorial Healthcare system, and collaboration with Healthy Start Coalition.

Funding is through the federal Maternal Infant and Early Childhood Home Visiting (MIECHV) program. The grant is a three year $1.5 million, renewable grant that provides exciting opportunities for the communities of Broward County and expands the available services for pregnant women and infants.

NFP is an evidence-based community health program. Developed over 35 years ago and rigorously studied since its inception, NFP has a high degree of evidence that it works across a variety of health, social, and economic outcomes.

The NFP Program focuses on low-income, first-time moms. Each mother is partnered with a registered nurse early in pregnancy. The mother then receives ongoing visits that continue through her child’s 2nd birthday. The nurse is trained in the exacting standards of NFP to ensure they focus on 3 goals:

• Improve pregnancy outcomes

• Improve the child’s health and development

• Improve families’ economic self-sufficiency

Eligibility criteria:

• No previous live births

• Low income

• Less than 28 weeks

• Reside in a target zip code: 33064, 33069, 33060, 33319, 33313, 33311, 33024, 33025, 33023

For additional information about Nurse Family Partnership. Please visit our national website at www.nursefamilypartnership.org

The Housing Opportunities for Persons with AIDS (HOPWA) program offers housing assistance through its four programs for vulnerable individuals and families who are at-risk for homelessness or who are already homeless.
• Short Term Mortgage Rent Utilities-provides financial assistance to pay for past due mortgage, rent or utilities.
• Permanent Housing Placement-provides financial assistance in the form of first and last month’s rent and/or utility deposits to move into a new housing unit that meets HUD’s habitable standards.
• Housing Case Management-provides clients a single point of contact with housing, health and social services systems in the community. Housing Case managers mobilize needed resources and advocate on behalf of clients to ensure housing stability.
• Tenant Based Rental Voucher-provides rental assistance for eligible families with a long-term goal of assisting the family to work toward self-sufficiency. Families are able to rent a unit of their choice form landlords

Get Covered Broward is an on-call health insurance enrollment assistance program. This initiative provides free education and application assistance to uninsured and vulnerable individuals. By calling 1-800-794-2208, a representative will provide one-on-one assistance to check for Affordable Care Act eligibility, help to find the best plan for the whole family, and will walk the caller through the enrollment process.

The Advocate Program, Inc. administers this program in partnership with the Broward Regional Health Planning Council (BRHPC) to provide case management to the Supportive Services for Veterans and Families Program (SSVF). This SSVF program has a primary goal of rapid re-housing for Veterans and their families and to assist veterans in re-acclimating to civilian life. In addition, the SSVF case managers assist SSVF participants in transitioning from homelessness to permanent, stable housing arrangements or supported housing arrangements.

BRHPC SSVF case managers are the primary point of contact in coordinating participant services. They are responsible for the referral to and follow-up with local community service providers and fellow SSVF partner agencies working in concert to assist with the successful housing outcomes for the SSVF Program Participants.

The Insurance Benefits Management System provides health insurance premium payments for qualified Ryan White Part B participants residing in the state of Florida. As an essential component of the AIDS Drug Assistance Program (ADAP), this core service allows uninsured, underinsured and insured clients access to critically necessary health care and life saving medications for Persons With HIV (PWH) through the Federally Facilitated Marketplace, Employer Sponsored Insurance or COBRA coverage. Eligible insured clients have coverage that includes prescription drug coverage equivalent to the ADAP formulary drugs.