Having a good health insurance plan is a vital part of accessing effective HIV care and medications —and we are here to help.
Community Resource Initiative offers hands-on guidance navigating insurance, assistance with enrollment, and help paying for health insurance premiums, ensuring that people living with HIV can get—and keep—comprehensive health coverage and avoid gaps in treatment and care.
BRIDGE Team Support
Our BRIDGE Team helps clients understand the complicated insurance landscape and choose the best option for their unique circumstances. The BRIDGE Team is skilled at addressing barriers to coverage and can help clients access all the services offered by Community Resource Initiative.
About CHII
Community Resource Initiative’s Comprehensive Health Insurance Initiative (CHII) can assist with paying the cost of health insurance premiums for eligible clients in our HIV Drug Assistance Program (HDAP). CHII helps clients enroll in and maintain insurance coverage or pay for their current insurance plan. CHII is a program of the Massachusetts Department of Public Health Office of HIV/AIDS, Bureau of Infectious Disease and Laboratory Sciences and is administered by Community Resource Initiative.
How can we help?
BRIDGE Team Support
Navigating Insurance: BRIDGE to care
Our BRIDGE Team helps clients understand the complicated insurance landscape and choose the best option for their unique circumstances. The BRIDGE Team is skilled at addressing barriers to coverage and can help clients access all the services offered by Community Resource Initiative.
Learn more about BRIDGE SupportOutreach and Training
View previous trainings or schedule a training with our BRIDGE team
The BRIDGE Team provides training to case managers, healthcare providers, and clients about insurance enrollment, as well as accessing our drug assistance programs.
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Comprehensive Health Insurance Initiative (CHII)
Our Comprehensive Health Insurance Initiative (CHII) helps people living with HIV enrolled in our HDAP program access the best health insurance available to them by paying their monthly health insurance premiums.
Learn more about CHIITax Credits
Need help navigating Premium Tax Credits?
The Affordable Care Act provides tax credits to eligible individuals and families who are enrolled in health insurance through the Massachusetts Health Connector. These Advanced Premium Tax Credits (APTCs) are subsidies that lower the cost of your monthly health insurance premiums, which HDAP/CHII may have paid on your behalf.
Learn more about Premium Tax CreditsResources and FAQs
Have Questions?
Community Resource Initiative has many resources and helpful information for clients, case managers, social workers, and any other individuals who help those living with HIV access health insurance and drug payment assistance.
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Reach out to us at anytime
If you have any questions about BRIDGE, their trainings and webinars, health insurance enrollment, or other HIV-related trainings, please contact our BRIDGE team.
ContactI want to express my sincere gratitude to you and the entire organization for the assistance and support provided over the past few years to help me in securing a viable path for continued healthcare.
Community Resource Initiative client who the BRIDGE team helped stay in care
Meet the BRIDGE & CHII Teams
George-Henry Hastie, MPH
Senior Manager BRIDGE/IDDAP; Outreach, Training, and Quality Strategist
Anne Callachan
BRIDGE Team Project Manager
Juan Diaz
BRIDGE Team Health Insurance Enrollment Specialist
David Huckle
BRIDGE Team Health Insurance Enrollment Specialist and Research Associate
Erin Ford
BRIDGE Team Health Insurance Enrollment Specialist
Gerald Martinez
BRIDGE Team Health Insurance Enrollment Specialist
Daniel Starmer
CHII and Policy Senior Manager
Christine Meneely
Senior CHII Enrollment Specialist
Access To…
Drug Assistance
Medications and insurance to treat HIV and other infectious diseases
Insurance Support
Insurance enrollment training for case managers, health care providers, and individuals
