Community Engagement Infrastructure
Keeping Medicaid members covered through H.R. 1.
Calena Network builds real volunteer and engagement capacity for Medicaid members, the opportunities they need to meet the community engagement requirement, designed to support HR1 reporting so eligible people don't lose coverage to paperwork.
View the working demo →Demo uses sample data. Production runs on partner MCO data under BAA.
5 million Americans could lose Medicaid coverage to paperwork.
Starting January 2027, Medicaid expansion adults in 40 states must document 80 hours per month of qualifying activity (work, volunteering, education, or job training) to maintain their coverage.
In Arkansas's 2018 work-requirement rollout, the majority of coverage losses were eligible people who couldn't navigate the documentation, not people who were ineligible. H.R. 1 will apply this requirement across roughly 300 Medicaid managed care contracts in 40 states.
Coverage infrastructure, not compliance enforcement.
Real engagement capacity
The hard part isn't tracking hours, it's finding enough places for members to engage. We build and coordinate a network of volunteer and work opportunities, including remote and skill-based options, so capacity actually exists.
Matched opportunities
Members are paired with specific opportunities that fit their location, schedule, and Medicaid income limits, so they can meet the requirement without earning their way off coverage.
Built for HR1 reporting
Partner organizations confirm participation, and the system is designed to support the documentation MCOs need for HR1 reporting. The state remains the determining authority.
Built alongside the plans solving this.
Calena Network is being built with Medicaid managed care plans as design partners, starting in Hawai'i. We're not a vendor pitching pre-built software. We're shaping the platform around the operational realities plans face under H.R. 1, starting with the hardest part: building enough real engagement capacity to meet the demand.