HIT Consultant

JANUARY 25, 2023

What You Should Know: – Angle Health, a digital first health insurance carrier raises $58M in Series A funding, making health insurance more convenient, approachable, and affordable for employers and members.

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Center for Health Insurance Reform

MARCH 23, 2023

Continue reading → The post Happy 13th Birthday, ACA! appeared first on Center on Health Insurance Reforms. To celebrate this milestone, CHIR takes a look at the law's big accomplishments and its impact on American families.

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Kaiser Health News

APRIL 16, 2024

In turn, sales agents used the information to either enroll them in ACA plans or switch their existing policies without their consent. Such private sector platforms, which must be approved by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, streamline enrollment by integrating with the federal ACA marketplace, called healthcare.gov.

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Center for Health Insurance Reform

DECEMBER 15, 2023

As 2023 comes to a close, it’s time to think about health insurance for 2024. Consumers searching for a 2024 plan online may come across products that do not have to comply with the Affordable Care Act's (ACA) consumer protections.

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Center for Health Insurance Reform

AUGUST 14, 2023

CHIR’s summer reading list includes the latest health policy literature. In July, we read about the disparities in medical debt burdens, policy interventions to reduce choice errors in the Affordable Care Act (ACA) Marketplace, and the affordability of Marketplace health insurance under subsidy expansion.

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Center for Health Insurance Reform

MARCH 24, 2022

Continue reading → The post Preparing for the Biggest Coverage Event Since the ACA: The Role of States as Medicaid Continuous Coverage Comes to an End appeared first on Center on Health Insurance Reforms.

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Health Populi

MARCH 8, 2023

Many health citizens in the U.S. would likely skip receiving preventive health care services if the Affordable Care Act’s (ACA) coverage for them goes away, a Morning Consult survey found. One of the key benefits embedded in the ACA was “free” without co-pay shares for preventive care.

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Kaiser Health News

APRIL 21, 2022

He reflects on how the ACA has changed the nation’s health system, what could result if Congress fails to renew expanded premium subsidies that have helped boost coverage, and what should happen next with the health law and the millions of Americans who still lack health insurance coverage.

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Center for Health Insurance Reform

APRIL 6, 2022

In addition to filling out our March Madness brackets, the CHIR team reviewed studies on health insurance rates during the pandemic, how the Affordable Care Act (ACA) impacted women’s health coverage, and consumer access to high-quality marketplace plans.

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Center for Health Insurance Reform

DECEMBER 19, 2022

As consumers look for an affordable health plan, it can be tempting to search for plans online, which may lead people to products sold outside of the Affordable Care Act’s (ACA) marketplace.

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Jane Sarashon

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

NABIP, whose members represent professionals in the health insurance benefits industry, drafted and adopted a new American Healthcare Consumer Bill of Rights launched at the meeting. The Affordable Care Act (ACA) of 2010 had embedded within the law a Patient’s Bill of Rights.

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Center for Health Insurance Reform

MAY 16, 2022

The implementation of the Affordable Care Act (ACA) led to historic reductions in racial and ethnic disparities related to health insurance coverage. However, equal access to health coverage is not enough to ensure health equity.

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Center for Health Insurance Reform

MARCH 11, 2022

In honor of Black History Month, for the February edition of CHIR’s monthly research roundup we reviewed new health policy research centering the experiences of Black people in the U.S. Continue reading → The post February Research Roundup: What We’re Reading appeared first on Center on Health Insurance Reforms.

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Center for Health Insurance Reform

AUGUST 1, 2022

The ACA requires that most insurers and employers cover a set of preventive health services at no cost to enrollees. A case pending in federal court threatens to cut off consumers' access by allowing insurers to impose cost-sharing on these services or, in some cases, cease covering them altogether.

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Center for Health Insurance Reform

JANUARY 27, 2023

A federal judge is poised to gut one of the most popular provisions of the Affordable Care Act’s (ACA) preventive services requirement, potentially cutting off millions of peoples’ access to crucial care such as flu shots and cancer screenings. appeared first on Center on Health Insurance Reforms.

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Center for Health Insurance Reform

NOVEMBER 9, 2022

At the end of the COVID-19 public health emergency, millions of people will lose Medicaid as states resume eligibility determinations. Continue reading → The post Bridging the Gap: Oregon’s Proposal to Ease Coverage Transitions at the End of Public Health Emergency appeared first on Center on Health Insurance Reforms.

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Health Populi

JUNE 18, 2021

with employer-sponsored health insurance worry that a major health event in their household could lead to bankruptcy, according to research gathered by West Health and Gallup in Business Speaks: The Future of Employer-Sponsored Insurance. Health Populi’s Hot Points: U.S. One-half of U.S.

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Center for Health Insurance Reform

MARCH 31, 2022

In the proposed Notice of Benefit and Payment Parameters for 2023, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services asked for feedback on how to promote health equity through ACA marketplace operations and plan certification standards.

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Center for Health Insurance Reform

APRIL 29, 2022

As many as 16 million people are expected to lose Medicaid once the COVID-19 public health emergency ends. One-third of these could be eligible for ACA marketplace plans.

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Center for Health Insurance Reform

OCTOBER 19, 2023

The annual open enrollment period for Affordable Care Act (ACA) Marketplace coverage kicks off November 1 in most states.

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Bill of Health

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

has some of the world’s leading medical facilities and research institutions, and the ability to deliver the highest available quality of care, it ranks last among rich nations in providing equitable, accessible, affordable, and high-quality health care. America is the only wealthy nation to lack universal health coverage.

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Health Populi

SEPTEMBER 17, 2020

Census Bureau found that the level of health insurance enrollment fell by 1 million people in 2019 , with about 30 million Americans not covered by health insurance. The coronavirus pandemic has only exacerbated the erosion of the health insured population. lacked health insurance.

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Center for Health Insurance Reform

OCTOBER 13, 2023

As we fall into autumn weather, CHIR continues to keep up with the latest health policy research. In September, we read about trends in individual market enrollment, mental health care networks available through the Affordable Care Act’s (ACA) Marketplace, and employers’ ability to negotiate lower prices for health care services.

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Bill of Health

JANUARY 26, 2022

In other words, both convicted individuals and those still presumed innocent are stripped of their access to the federal health insurance program for low-income individuals. Gamble (1976), affirmed that incarcerated individuals have the constitutional right to health care. The Humane Correctional Health Care Act (H.R.3514)

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Center for Health Insurance Reform

APRIL 17, 2023

Department of Justice has requested that a Texas district court suspend its decision to strike down the ACA's preventive services benefits while it pursues an appeal. In her latest Health Affairs Forefront article, CHIR's Sabrina Corlette explores what could happen if a stay is not granted in the case.

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Compliancy Group

MARCH 19, 2024

Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) enforces laws relevant to patient care, healthcare delivery and billing, and workplace safety in the U.S. HIPAA The Health Insurance Portability and Privacy Act (HIPAA) applies to anyone who interacts with patients or handles PHI.

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Center for Health Insurance Reform

MAY 19, 2023

That court's decision would have blocked federal enforcement of the ACA's requirements that insurers cover and waive cost-sharing for preventive services. On May 15, 2023, the 5th Circuit Court of Appeals temporarily paused the Braidwood v. Becerra ruling by a federal district court.

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Center for Health Insurance Reform

APRIL 17, 2023

At the end of March, a federal judge in Texas partially invalidated one of the ACA’s most popular provisions—the requirement to cover a set of preventive services without cost sharing. In a recent post for the Commonwealth Fund’s To the Point blog, CHIR experts break down the recent decision and how it will impact access to care.

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Health Populi

AUGUST 2, 2021

Health Populi’s Hot Points: While having health insurance is better than being uninsured, people in the U.S. A recent Gallup/West Health poll, published in June, found that 1 in 2 people with workplace health insurance were worried about that health event leading to bankruptcy, shown in the bar chart from the study.

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Health Populi

MAY 15, 2019

With lower expectations of and satisfaction with health care, Millennials in America seek three things: available, accessible, and affordable services, research from the Transamerica Center for Health Studies has found. This generation has greater engagement with employers that offer health benefits.

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Center for Health Insurance Reform

JUNE 12, 2023

Last month, we read about the impact of ending pandemic-related coverage policies, consumer awareness of the resumption of Medicaid renewals, and approaches to tackling rising health care costs in commercial health insurance markets.

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Compliance Now

DECEMBER 20, 2022

The good faith transition relief that formerly shielded employers from penalties for incorrect and/or incomplete ACA filings is no longer available. Employers must successfully e-File complete, accurate ACA filings by this deadline or risk exposure to information return penalties and employer mandate penalties.

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Compliance Now

DECEMBER 20, 2022

The good faith transition relief that formerly shielded employers from penalties for incorrect and/or incomplete ACA filings is no longer available. Employers must successfully e-File complete, accurate ACA filings by this deadline or risk exposure to information return penalties and employer mandate penalties.

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Kaiser Health News

JANUARY 19, 2022

” The changes are part of a 400-page proposed rule governing the federal health insurance marketplace and a few states that use the federal platform for their own exchanges. Under the ACA, sliding-scale subsidies are available to help low- and moderate-income people buy coverage.

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Center for Health Insurance Reform

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

In preparation for Health Policy Halloween, CHIR read up on the latest health policy research.

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Center for Health Insurance Reform

FEBRUARY 10, 2022

Continue reading → The post January Research Roundup: What We’re Reading appeared first on Center on Health Insurance Reforms.

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Bill of Health

JANUARY 8, 2024

An important aspect of this “ Economic Stabilization ” order was allowing businesses to use health insurance as a way to compete for employees. Employers increasingly used health insurance as a recruitment tool, and legislatures nationwide established injury coverage as a bare minimum requirement for employers.

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