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Stakeholder Perspectives on CMS’s 2025 Notice of Benefit and Payment Parameters: State Insurance Departments and Marketplaces

Center for Health Insurance Reform

In November, the Biden administration released the proposed Notice of Benefits and Payment Parameters for plan year 2025, an annual rule setting standards for the Affordable Care Act (ACA) Marketplaces and health insurers.

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Dental Coverage under the ACA: Marketplace Rule Would Give States the Opportunity to Expand Coverage

Center for Health Insurance Reform

Dental care is an important element of comprehensive health care. The Affordable Care Act (ACA) requires coverage of pediatric dental services in many commercial plans, but the law has had less of an impact on adult dental coverage.

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Proposed 2025 Payment Rule: Marketplace Standards And Insurance Reforms

Center for Health Insurance Reform

Last month, the Biden administration proposed changes to Affordable Care Act (ACA) Marketplace policies and procedures. In a post for Health Affairs Forefront, Sabrina Corlette and Jason Levitis take a look at the proposals related to market reforms, Marketplace standards, and premium tax credits.

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Biden Wants States to Ensure Obamacare Plans Cover Enough Doctors and Hospitals

Kaiser Health News

It’s likely one of the last major ACA policy efforts of President Joe Biden’s first term — and, if he loses reelection, could represent his final touches on the landmark health program created when he was vice president. In part because of those subsidies, enrollment has increased steadily and hit records under his watch.

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Start Shopping: Enrollment Begins Nov. 1 for Most Obamacare Insurance Plans

Kaiser Health News

For millions of Americans who buy their own health insurance through the Affordable Care Act marketplace, the end of the year brings a day of reckoning: It’s time to compare benefits and prices and change to a new plan or enroll for the first time. 1 for the ACA’s federal and state exchanges.

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Everything Old Is New Again? The Latest Round of Health Policy Proposals Reprises Existing Ideas

Kaiser Health News

House Republicans have advanced a package of bills that could reduce health insurance costs for certain businesses and consumers, partly by rolling back some consumer protections. Health policy experts aren’t surprised. So, what is on the table in Washington? First, a caveat: Little is likely to happen in an election year.

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Biden Administration Issues Final Rule to End the “Family Glitch”

Compliance Now

The Biden Administration issued a final regulation and a new IRS notice on October 11, 2022, which eliminate the Affordable Care Act’s (ACA) “family glitch” beginning on January 1, 2023. The preamble to the final rule also explicitly states that the policy change will not impact ACA reporting for either ALEs or health insurance issuers.

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