Yesterday, CMS released the final enrollment report for the COVID Special Enrollment Period (SEP). The report indicates that 2.8 million people got coverage through the ACA marketplaces during the COVID SEP. This brings the total enrollment through the ACA marketplaces to 12.2 million people – which is the highest enrollment numbers recorded since the start […] Read More »
ASPE Releases Issue Brief on Coverage for People with Disabilities
The Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation (ASPE), which serves as the main advisor to the Secretary of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services on policy development, recently released an Issue Brief entitled, “Health Insurance Coverage Among Working-Age Adults with Disabilities: 2010 to 2018.” Among the findings were the proportion of working-age adults […] Read More »
CMS Announces New Navigator Awards
Today, CMS announced the grant awards being given to organizations to act as health insurance navigators in the ACA marketplaces. The announcement covers those states which are under the federally facilitated marketplace which utilize healthcare.gov for health insurance enrollment. There are 60 organizations which are receiving the navigator grants and these grants will run for […] Read More »
CBPP Announces 2021 Webinar Series
AAHD is proud to announce that we will be working with the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities (CBPP) again to provide technical assistance to navigators and other health insurance enrollment assisters. As part of this work, CBPP will once again be conducting its fall “Beyond the Basics” webinar series and they have announced the […] Read More »
CMS Releases Latest COVID SEP Enrollment Data
Yesterday, CMS released the latest enrollment data for the COVID Special Enrollment Period (SEP). In states on the federally facilitated marketplace, over 1.8 million Americans have signed up for coverage during the COVID SEP through the end of July. When you factor in states who utilize their own state-based marketplace, that number grows to over […] Read More »
How ARPA Is Lowering Premiums
Previously, we reported on the increase in enrollment during the COVID Special Enrollment Period (SEP). One of the things driving the enrollment numbers during the COVID SEP is the enhanced premium subsidies that are available to consumers as a result of the American Rescue Plan Act (ARPA). Yesterday, CMS released a state-by-state breakdown of how […] Read More »
CMS Releases Latest COVID SEP Enrollment Report
Last week, CMS released the latest enrollment report for the COVID Special Enrollment Period (SEP). The report shows that since the SEP began in February and through June 30, over 1.5 million people have received health insurance coverage through the ACA marketplace. Read More »
State Medicaid Expansion Fact Sheets Available
The Center on Budget and Policy Priorities (CBPP) has released a new series of state specific fact sheets which highlight the Medicaid coverage gap which exists in the 11 states which have not expanded Medicaid under the Affordable Care Act. These fact sheets detail the demographics of those individuals in the states which could be […] Read More »
Biden Administration Issues Proposed Marketplace Rules
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 »
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 »
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