Last week, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) released guidance on how Special Enrollment Periods (SEPs) will be extended for those individuals who have been affected by the recent hurricanes. This will apply to any individual who lives in a county designated by FEMA as needing assistance and who became eligible for an […] Read More »

Previously, we reported on a webinar series by the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities (CBPP) for their Health Reform: Beyond the Basics series. These webinars were presented last month and the archives are now available. Check out the slides and video recording for each of the webinars here: Part I: Premium Tax Credits  Slides | […] Read More »

In its assister newsletter yesterday, CMS announced that there would be planned website outages of Healthcare.gov in order to do maintenance to the website. These outages will occur during open enrollment, so they could interrupt enrollment. The schedule for the outages is as follows: Wednesday, November 1, 2017 overnight Sundays 12 AM – 12 PM […] Read More »

The Congressional Budget Office (CBO) released a preliminary analysis of the Graham-Cassidy repeal and replace bill. While the CBO acknowledged that they did not have time to do a full analysis of the bill as it related to its effect on coverage, the report does indicate the “number of people with comprehensive health insurance … […] Read More »

The Kaiser Family Foundation has released two new briefs analyzing the Graham-Cassidy bill. These briefs look at the massive change that Graham-Cassidy would make to the Medicaid program and the effect it would have on the federal government’s contribution in each state. The briefs can be downloaded at the following links: Five Ways the Graham-Cassidy […] Read More »

A new report from Avalere is out today and it looks at the effect that the Graham-Cassidy bill would have on the funding each state receives from the federal government. Overall, the report indicates that federal Medicaid funding under Graham-Cassidy would be reduced by $489 billion from 2020-2027 and while a handful of states would receive […] Read More »

A new fact sheet from the Kaiser Family Foundation takes a look at the uninsured population. “Key Facts about the Uninsured Population” answers these five questions about this group: How has the number of uninsured changed under the ACA? Why do people remain uninsured? Who remains uninsured? How does the lack of insurance affect access […] Read More »

The American Association on Health & Disability (lead partner for the NDNRC) joined a coalition of 100 consumer, patient and provider groups calling on Congress to pass bi-partisan legislation aimed at stabilizing the health insurance marketplaces. The letter to Congress calls for three actions which would help with marketplace stabilization: guaranteeing funding for cost-sharing reductions, restoring premium […] Read More »

The Center on Budget and Policy Priorities (CBPP) is reprising their Health Reform: Beyond the Basics webinar series. Through the month, they will be presenting 4 webinars in preparation for the upcoming Open Enrollment. The schedule for these webinars along with links to them are as follows: Part I: Premium Tax Credits  Tuesday, September 19, […] Read More »