Last month was the start of a COVID Special Enrollment Period (SEP). The SEP is going on now and will last for three months, ending on May 15, 2021. Yesterday, CMS gave the first indication of how well the COVID SEP is going as they reported that over 200,000 individuals had selected new plans. You […] Read More »

Today, February 15, 2021 marks the beginning of the COVID Special Enrollment Period (SEP). This SEP will last for three months and end on May 15, 2021. Last month’s announcement of the Biden administration’s executive order led to the COVID SEP for the federally facilitated marketplace. The COVID SEP only affects people who live in […] Read More »

A new report from the Urban Institute indicates that many people that do not have insurance have not even tried to enroll in coverage through the ACA marketplace or in Medicaid. The report finds that over half of the nearly 29 million people who do not have coverage know very little or nothing about the […] Read More »

Today, the Biden administration announced that it would be opening up the health insurance marketplace (healthcare.gov) for a Special Enrollment Period (SEP) stating that the SEP “will give Americans that need health care coverage during this global pandemic the opportunity to sign up.” The SEP will run from February 15 – May 15, 2021. You can […] Read More »

PARTICIPANTS NEEDED 2021 National Survey on Health and Disability Share how access to health care, insurance and the COVID-19 pandemic affects your life The NIDILRR-funded Collaborative on Health Reform and Independent Living (CHRIL) at the University of Kansas is looking for adults with disabilities to complete an online survey about health insurance, health care access […] Read More »

One of the final acts of the Trump administration was the release of part of the final Notice of Benefit and Payment Parameters (NBPP). At the end of November, we had a news item on the proposed NBPP and in a prior newsletter, we highlighted a comment letter which AAHD joined expressing concerns about some […] Read More »

With the completion of Open Enrollment Year 8 (OE8) for the federally facilitated marketplace, CMS has issued its final enrollment snapshot for the 2021 plan year. This snapshot indicates that over 8.2 million people receive coverage through the federally facilitated marketplaces. This is approximately the same amount that received coverage for 2020, although the 2020 […] Read More »

Previously, we did a blog post which outlined which state-based marketplaces (SBMs) have extended open enrollment periods. While AAHD’s home state of Maryland does have a SBM, it did not have an extended open enrollment period. However, the Maryland SBM has recently announced that they are allowing additional enrollments through a Coronavirus Special Enrollment Period […] Read More »

A new report from the Kaiser Family Foundation looks at how the COVID-19 pandemic has affected health insurance coverage. The report entitled “How Has the Pandemic Affected Health Coverage in the U.S.?” shows that employer-based coverage did drop as a result of the pandemic, but this may have been offset by increases in coverage through […] Read More »