Earlier this week, the Biden Administration issued proposed rules for the Affordable Care Act (ACA) marketplaces. These proposed rules do expand the roles for navigators which is not surprising based on the increased funding that the new administration is putting into the navigator program. Another big change will be expanding the open enrollment period for […] Read More »
Archives for June 2021
June 25, 2021
ACA IS STILL THE LAW OF THE LAND! Throughout the summer, we will be publishing the NDNRC Update on a biweekly basis. Last week, the Supreme Court threw out a challenge from Texas and other states who were trying to invalidate the Affordable Care Act (ACA) by questioning the constitutionality of the ACA’s individual mandate. […] Read More »
Supreme Court upholds ACA – Again
The Supreme Court today threw out the challenge from Texas and other states who were trying to invalidate the Affordable Care Act (ACA) by questioning the constitutionality of the ACA’s individual mandate. In 2012, the Supreme Court had ruled that the individual mandate was a constitutional exercise of Congress’s taxing authority, but the tax penalty […] Read More »
CMS Highlights Benefits of ACA and COVID SEP
Yesterday, CMS issued two reports which demonstrate the effectiveness of the COVID Special Enrollment Period (SEP) and the Affordable Care Act (ACA) following the enhancements provided by the American Rescue Plan Act (ARPA). The 2021 Marketplace Special Enrollment Period Report showed that since the end of May over 1.2 million people have enrolled in coverage […] Read More »
June 11, 2021
CMS SEEKING NAVIGATOR APPLICATIONS After this week and throughout the summer, we will be publishing the NDNRC Update on a biweekly basis. If you’re interested in serving as a navigator organization and helping consumers enroll in the Affordable Care Act marketplace, CMS is accepting applications from organizations to serve as navigators in states which utilize […] Read More »
New Report Shows Record Enrollment under the ACA
A new report from HHS indicates that over 31 million people have been enrolled in coverage through the ACA. This represents an all-time high of enrollees through the ACA marketplace. Below are links to the report and press release. ASPE: Health Coverage under the Affordable Care Act: Enrollment Trends and State Estimates CMS Press Release Read More »
CMS Announces Funding Opportunity for Navigators
Previously, we had reported that the Biden administration was going to be increasing the funding for the navigator program for the 2022 plan year. Today, CMS released the Notice of Funding Opportunity which will provide $80 million to organizations to act as navigators in states in the federally facilitated marketplaces. To learn more, you can […] Read More »
June 4, 2021
TO EXPAND OR NOT TO EXPAND? Our partners at Community Catalyst recently posted two blog posts which highlight the benefits of Medicaid expansion under the Affordable Care Act (ACA). This week, we highlighted some of these findings in our new blog post. One of the provisions in the American Rescue Plan Act (ARPA) made it […] Read More »
Benefits of Medicaid Expansion
Medicaid Expansion has quantifiable benefits and Community Catalyst recently set out some of these benefits in two recent blog posts. These benefits include better access to care for people with disabilities, broadened health care in rural areas and decreased racial inequities in coverage rates. Another benefit is that cancer gets diagnosed earlier, which lowers the […] Read More »