; and (2) Medicaid programs and CHIP programs may use information in the National Directory of New Hires about identity, employer, quarterly wages, and unemployment compensation to determine eligibility and to implement third-party liability procedures or premium assistance programs otherwise permitted or mandated under Federal law, and use information about new hires to implement such procedures and policies, subject to notice and appeal rights for any resulting determination, including those available under title XIX or title XXI of the Social Security Act or under section 1411(f) of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act ( 42 U.S.C. 18081(f) ). (c) Use of information about eligibility for or receipt of group health coverage Notwithstanding any other provision of Federal or State law: (1) In general Subject to the requirements described in paragraph (2), for purposes of determining eligibility and, in the case of a Medicaid program, for purposes of determining the applicability of third-party liability procedures or premium assistance policies otherwise permitted or mandated under Federal law, an insurance affordability program shall have access to any source of information, maintained by or accessible to a public entity, about receipt or offers of coverage through a group health plan. Such sources shall include— (A) information maintained by or accessible to the Secretary of Health and Human Services for purposes of implementing section 1862(b) of the Social Security Act ( 42 U.S.C. 1395y(b) ); (B) information maintained by or accessible to a State Medicaid program for purposes of implementing subsections (a)(25) or (a)(60) of section 1902 of the Social Security Act ( 42 U.S.C. 1396a )