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Computer glitches and human error still causing insurance headaches for Californians

Healthcare It News

Since California expanded health coverage under the Affordable Care Act, a large number of people have been mistakenly bounced between Covered California, the state’s marketplace for those who buy their own insurance, and Medi-Cal, the state’s Medicaid program for low-income residents. “This shouldn’t be happening.

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CMS Begins Option to Extend Medicaid Postpartum Coverage

Healthcare Law Blog

On April 1, 2022 , the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (“CMS”) announced states may seek to extend Medicaid postpartum coverage from 60 days to one year through a new state plan option offered by the American Rescue Plan Act (“ARPA”). In states that have not expanded Medicaid, however, many postpartum women lose coverage.

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Fifth Circuit Upholds ACA Risk Adjustment Program

Healthcare Law Blog

Various smaller health insurance issuers have challenged the risk-adjustment program under the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA), alleging, among other things, that its underlying methodology favors larger insurers. United States Dep’t of Health & Hum. 20-50963, 2022 WL 807554, at *1 (5th Cir. The Risk-Adjustment Program.

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Administrative Simplification and ICD-10: Streamlining Health Care Operations

CMS.gov

By: Christine Stahlecker, Director, Administrative Simplification Group, Office of E-Health Standards and Services, Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services. And be sure to check out the ACA website and sign up for Administrative Simplification Updates. And please stop by our booth (#2868) in the exhibit hall.

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New State Relief and Empowerment Waiver Guidance Gives States Tools to Help Fix Broken Health Insurance Markets

CMS.gov

Administrator, Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services. After the Affordable Care Act’s (ACA) regulations took effect, we have witnessed a serious deterioration of the individual market across the country because of skyrocketing costs and the withdrawal of insurance plans. keya.joy-bush@…. Mon, 10/22/2018 - 16:57. Seema Verma.

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CMS BLOG: Medicare for All? Just another name for a government-run, single payer system

CMS.gov

Seema Verma, Administrator, Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services . Ask yourself why proponents of ‘Medicare for All’ are advocating such a radical reform of health care just five years after the full implementation of the Affordable Care Act (ACA), often referred to as Obamacare. It is certainly not because the ACA has worked.

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Majority Rules? The Right to Affordable Health Care is A Right for All Americans

Health Populi

This is the sixth survey conducted by the Fund to track Americans’ views of the Affordable Care Act; the first survey was fielded in mid-to-fall 2013. The same holds for insurance status, whether commercially insured by an employer or enrolled in Medicaid, Medicare, through a health insurance marketplace, or uninsured.

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