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3. “Continuous eligibility” or “CE” means a period of eligibility during which a member cannot be disenrolled due to changes in circumstances with certain exceptions. Exceptions include a request for disenrollment by the beneficiary, the beneficiary is no longer a resident of the state, the agency determines that eligiblity was erroneously granted at the most recent determination, redetermination, or renewal due to agency error or fraud, abuse, or perjury attributed to the beneficiary, or the beneficiary is deceased. 4. “Enrollee” means a Medicaid member or beneficiary who is enrolled in a Medicaid managed care plan. 5. “Integrated Health and Human Services Eligibility System" or "IES” means the State's eligibility system that enables applicants, through a single application, to be considered for several human service programs simultaneously, including affordable health coverage and human services. 6. “Medicaid Affordable Care Coverage Group” or “MACC” means a classification of persons eligible to receive Medicaid based on similar characteristics who are subject to the MAGI standard for determining income eligibility as set forth in Part 1 of this Subchapter. 7. “MAGI standard” means the method for evaluating Medicaid income eligibility using the modified adjusted gross income (MAGI) standard established under the ACA. The MAGI is the standard for determining income eligibility for all MACC groups. 8. “Modified passive renewal” means a method for determining continuing eligibility using electronic data sources and information provided by beneficiaries. This method is only used when the eligibility factors subject to change cannot be evaluated fully by the available electronic data sources or information in the beneficiary’s account. This process may also be used when there is insufficient information to determine whether a beneficiary who is losing coverage due to a change in an eligibility factor is eligible in another coverage group, such as when a MACC adult is about to turn sixty-five (65) and must be evaluated using the SSI methodology specified in Chapter 40 of this Title. 9. “Navigator” means a person working for a State-contracted organization with certified assisters who have expertise in Medicaid eligibility and enrollment. 10. “Non-MAGI coverage group” means a Medicaid coverage group that is not subject to the modified adjusted gross income eligibility determination. For the purposes of this Part, the term refers to the children and youth who are eligible for Medicaid based on their participation in another publicly funded program and/or by Federal law, including infants born to Medicaid eligible