A new report from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation along with the Georgetown University’s Health Policy Institute and the Urban Institute takes a look at the rise of short-term health plans and the way that issuers have been marketing them and states have been regulating them. The report entitled “The Marketing of Short-Term Health Plans: An […] Read More »

The Center on Budget and Policy Priorities (CBPP) has just released a new series of state fact sheets which show how Medicaid helps families and individuals with low income. These fact sheets can be accessed through the article on the CBPP website. Read More »

An updated resource from the Kaiser Family Foundation provides information on how insurance has changed and expanded under the ACA and provides data on insured and uninsured individuals. “The Uninsured and the ACA: A Primer” emphasizes the impact that health insurance can have on the uninsured and change health outcomes and financial impact. Lack of […] Read More »

The Center on Budget and Policy Priorities (CBPP) has done an analysis of the proposed Notice of Benefit and Payment Parameters (NBPP) and the effect that it could have on premiums in the marketplace. Their analysis entitled “Change to Insurance Payment Formulas Would Raise Costs for Millions With Marketplace or Employer Plans” shows that the […] Read More »

The Collaborative on Health Reform and Independent Living (CHRIL) is hosting a webinar on Thursday, January 31, 2019 from 3:00-4:00 PM ET entitled “Health Reform and People with Disabilities: Lessons to Date from the CHRIL.” They will be highlighting many of the findings that the CHRIL has made as a result of its research. You […] Read More »

At the end of last week, CMS issued the proposed Notice of Benefit and Payment Parameters (NBPP) for the 2020 plan year. The NBPP is the regulatory framework which CMS uses to operate the federally facilitated marketplace (healthcare.gov). For more detail, you can check out the press release from CMS, or download the proposed rules […] Read More »

A new report from the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities (CBPP) addresses the unintended consequences which Medicaid work requirements can have and how there are no easy solutions to the problems they create. The report is entitled “Medicaid Work Requirements Can’t Be Fixed: Unintended Consequences Are Inevitable Result” and highlights the problems the work requirements cause […] Read More »

Last month, new numbers were released on the amount of people who have lost Medicaid coverage in Arkansas as a result of failing to comply with the state’s work requirements. An additional 4,655 people lost their coverage through Medicaid for their failure to comply with the requirements. This brings the total number of individuals who […] Read More »

Open Enrollment Year 6 (OE6) finished strong as over 4.3 million people enrolled in coverage through the marketplace during the last week of OE6. This brings the total enrollment for OE6 in the federally facilitated marketplaces to over 8.4 million people. To read more about the final enrollment numbers, check out CMS’s Weekly Enrollment Snapshot from […] Read More »

Last night a federal judge in Texas struck down the Affordable Care Act as unconstitutional. In this case, the legal challenge to the law was based on the fact that Congress eliminated the penalty for the individual mandate in last year’s tax bill and the Supreme Court had previously ruled that the individual mandate of […] Read More »