New Hampshire Health Insurance Premium Program (HIPP)

“The Health Insurance Premium Payment (HIPP) Program is a program to help individuals and families afford employer insurance when at least one person in the family is enrolled in New Hampshire Medicaid.

NH Medicaid members who are employed or have a family member who is employed may be eligible for health insurance premium assistance through NH Medicaid.

To qualify, your employer-sponsored health insurance plan must be cost effective. This means that it is less costly for the NH Medicaid program to pay your portion of your employer-sponsored health insurance premium then to directly pay for medical services. DHHS will do the cost effective calculation based on the information in your application. The costs that are used for the cost effective measurement are the average total annual Medicaid cost of the applicant (which equates to the monthly Medicaid managed care rate, premium and average deductible amounts, as well as administrative costs).”