Center for Health Insurance Reform

APRIL 29, 2022

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Healthcare Dive

OCTOBER 28, 2022

The payer has been steadily ratcheting up its presence on the Affordable Care Act exchanges after dramatically reducing its footprint in 2017.

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Fierce Healthcare

MARCH 26, 2024

The Affordable Care Act (ACA) is still a very big deal. Love it or hate it, the Affordable Care Act's enrollment numbers have exceeded 21 million as some companies double down on ICHRA.

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Healthcare Dive

NOVEMBER 10, 2022

The newest reduction for the insurtech comes less than a month after Bright announced it was leaving the Affordable Care Act exchanges and slashing its Medicare Advantage footprint to just Florida and California.

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Healthcare Dive

SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

The bioethicist and Affordable Care Act draftsman talked about the nation’s new attitude toward the pandemic and what we know about long COVID-19.

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Healthcare Dive

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

Texas Judge Reed O’Connor once again ruled against the Affordable Care Act. The health law requires employers to purchase insurance coverage that includes coverage for PrEP medication.

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Fierce Healthcare

JANUARY 24, 2024

million people will be enrolled in an Affordable Care Act during this year's open enrollment period, Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) announced today. Affordable Care Act enrollment has hit an all-time high, prompting federal officials to recognize its importance to the insurance marketplace today.

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Fierce Healthcare

OCTOBER 27, 2023

Bright Health Group and Friday Health Plans are both unable to pay their dues into the 2022 Affordable Care Act risk adjustment pool, costing their peers more than $1 billion, according to a notice | Bright Health Group and Friday Health Plans are both unable to pay their dues into the 2022 Affordable Care Act risk adjustment pool, CMS said.

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Fierce Healthcare

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

When the Affordable Care Act was passed, some feared its changes could lead many employers to drop health coverage altogether. When the Affordable Care Act was passed, some feared its changes could lead many employers to drop health coverage altogether.

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Fierce Healthcare

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

With their recent stability, the Affordable Care Act marketplaces are well-positioned for innovation—but there's still room to take what's working nationwide, according to a new report.

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Jane Sarashon

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

health care system. The aspirational document sets out the mission that “every individual deserves the right to obtain health care that is comprehensive, equitable and compassionate.” Let’s put “health” back into the U.S.

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Fierce Healthcare

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

Financial struggles at Bright Health Group and Friday Health Plans have raised concerns about how well the Affordable Care Act's (ACA's) risk adjustment program is working, especially whether it's | Financial struggles at Bright Health Group and Friday Health Plans have raised concerns about how well the Affordable Care Act's risk (..)

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American Medical Compliance

APRIL 17, 2024

The following Comprehensive Affordable Care Act (ACA) and Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) Compliance Training educates healthcare providers on the historical context of both Acts. Additionally, this course will help your staff be more knowledgeable of each act and how they apply to their patients.

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Fierce Healthcare

SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

When the Affordable Care Act (ACA) was passed in 2010, the legislation set forth requirements for insurers to cover lactation services for mothers, a stark contrast from expecting families to pay o | The Affordable Care Act says insurance companies must front the cost for lactation care.

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Bill of Health

JANUARY 26, 2022

Incarcerated individuals need health care, but punitive policies make securing access to care particularly difficult among this population, which numbers about 2.1 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

JUNE 5, 2023

House of Representatives' Education & Workforce Committee is poised to advance H.R. 2813, legislation that would expand self-funded employer plans in the small group market and preempt state insurance regulation. CHIR's Sabrina Corlette testified about the bill at an April 26, 2023 committee hearing.

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Fierce Healthcare

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

Care, which provides coverage for about 2.9 million people in Medicaid, Medicare, and Affordable Care Act plans, was ordered to shore up its data protection systems.

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Fierce Healthcare

JUNE 13, 2023

The Affordable Care Act's (ACA's) preventive care mandate remains in effect as a federal appeals court mulls a legal challenge to the requirements. | The Affordable Care Act's preventive care mandate remains in effect as a federal appeals court mulls a legal challenge to the requirements.

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Fierce Healthcare

AUGUST 25, 2023

Cigna is cutting down its Affordable Care Act exchange footprint down to 14 states, the company said Monday. Cigna is cutting down its Affordable Care Act exchange footprint down to 14 states, the company said Monday.

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Healthcare It News

AUGUST 25, 2022

Patients can experience unexpected access and affordability barriers that physicians lack visibility into, but by searching for the early indicators of non-adherence, physicians could act to help patients stay on their treatment plans. which provides care-focused engagement throughout patient journeys and connects more than 60% of U.S.

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Center for Health Insurance Reform

SEPTEMBER 15, 2023

In August, we read about differences between Medicare Advantage and commercial plans’ negotiated hospital prices, the affordability of employer-sponsored insurance for older adults, and the expected growth of 2024 Affordable Care Act Marketplace premiums.

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Center for Health Insurance Reform

AUGUST 14, 2023

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. CHIR’s summer reading list includes the latest health policy literature.

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Fierce Healthcare

JUNE 22, 2023

Physician-owned general acute care hospitals charge less than other non-physician-owned facilities in their region for several common shoppable care services, according to a new analysis published | A new analysis of competing hospitals' published prices adds fuel to the debate over whether Congress should lift the Affordable Care Act's ban (..)

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Fierce Healthcare

DECEMBER 18, 2023

Preventative services covered under the Affordable Care Act and the Medicare drug price negotiations program are two legal questions that will play out next year. Legal experts indicated they will be paying close attention to lawsuits surrounding the Medicare drug price negotiation program and Braidwood v.

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Fierce Healthcare

OCTOBER 24, 2023

UnitedHealthcare is expanding its footprint on the Affordable Care Act (ACA) exchanges to four new states in 2024, the insurance giant

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Fierce Healthcare

OCTOBER 31, 2023

Open enrollment on the Affordable Care Act's (ACA's) exchanges is set to begin, but signing up for coverage remains confusing for many, a

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Center for Health Insurance Reform

OCTOBER 26, 2023

As another Marketplace Open Enrollment Period begins, millions of Americans will turn to insurance brokers to guide them to affordable and comprehensive health insurance.

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Center for Health Insurance Reform

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

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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Center for Health Insurance Reform

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

In October, we read studies on consumer experiences enrolling in the Affordable Care Act (ACA) Marketplace, health care affordability issues among the insured and uninsured, and the impact of Medicaid expansion on coverage in heavily redlined areas.

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Fierce Healthcare

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

The expansion of Medicaid coverage under the Affordable Care Act helped address the problem to some extent, but not all states elected to take advantage of that opportunity. Structural racism encompassing groups, not bigotry targeting individuals, drives much of the healthcare inequity in the U.S.,

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Fierce Healthcare

JANUARY 9, 2024

Enrollment in plans through the Affordable Care Act's exchanges continues to grow, and Centene CEO Sarah London said she is seeing growing bipartisan support for the individual market in tandem.

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Fierce Healthcare

MARCH 19, 2024

The Employee Retirement Income Security Act, or ERISA, is turning 50 this year and lawmakers are curious to hear about how the law could be updated to increase coverage affordability and care acces | As Congress seeks input on how the law dictating employee benefit plan requirements should be improved, large employer plan sponsors are pushing for stronger (..)

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Center for Health Insurance Reform

MAY 16, 2023

The Affordable Care Act established health insurance Marketplaces to facilitate enrollment in comprehensive and affordable health insurance. Most states rely on the federal government to run their Marketplace, but recently, several states have expressed interest in taking over Marketplace operations.

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Compliance Now

AUGUST 28, 2023

By: David Mordo, Senior Compliance Consultant, MZQ Consulting The IRS recently released Revenue Procedure 2023-29 , which declared that the Affordable Care Act (ACA) benchmark for determining the affordability of employer-sponsored health coverage will significantly decrease to 8.39% of an employee’s household income for the 2024 plan year.

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HIT Consultant

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

Jessica Gaulton, founder and CEO of FamilyWell, shares her motivation: “As a survivor of postpartum depression and a witness to countless new mothers facing limited access to mental health care, I felt compelled to act. FamilyWell aims to provide equitable, affordable, and accessible mental healthcare for new mothers.”

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MARCH 31, 2022

The House of Representatives has drafted a bill that would provide new virtual care options for American employees. The full text of the act can be read here. Among just some of the recent bills introduced in the Telehealth Extension Act , the CONNECT for Health Act and the Telehealth Modernization Act.

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Fierce Healthcare

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

million operating loss in the third quarter as it continues to wind down its Affordable Care Act (ACA) business and navigates the sale of its Medicare Advantage | Bright Health Group posted a $462.8 Bright Health Group posted a $462.8

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