Today, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) released the Eligibility Determinations and Enrollment Report from December 2016. To read the report from CMS, click here. This report can also be found on our Resources & Links page under “Enrollment Statistics.” Prior Medicaid enrollment reports from CMS, are archived on our website here. Read More »

The Collaborative on Health Reform and Independent Living (CHRIL) is a 5-year research project funded by the National Institute on Disability, Independent Living and Rehabilitation Research (NIDILRR) to study how health reforms affect working-age adults with disabilities. The CHRIL is currently looking for individuals with disabilities to participate in their research efforts. During the months of […] Read More »

There has been a lot written about the effect of the Medicaid expansion under the Affordable Care Act (ACA). The Kaiser Family Foundation has put together a report which summarizes a lot of the research done on the ACA’s Medicaid expansion. To download the Kaiser literature review, click here. Kaiser has also created a chart […] Read More »

The Consortium for Citizens with Disabilities (CCD), which is a large coalition of national disability organizations, has released a statement opposing the current proposals to pay for the ACA repeal through reforming the Medicaid program with the use of block grants or per capita caps. To download the CCD statement, click here. AAHD is a […] Read More »

The Kaiser Family Foundation also has a new issue brief which looks at how the health insurance market operated before the ACA and how that can help inform the policy discussions around the ACA replacement. To download a copy of this issue brief, click here. Read More »

Yesterday, CMS issued proposed rules designed to stabilize the ACA marketplaces. These rules address a wide variety of areas including the length of next year’s open enrollment period, the determination process for eligibility for Special Enrollment Periods (SEPs) and network adequacy rules, to name a few. Some of the highlights of the rules include: Shortening the […] Read More »

A new report from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) highlights some of the findings from the 2016 National Health Interview Survey as it relates to the uninsured rates. The CDC report examined the health insurance rates for the first nine months of 2016 and compared them with the health insurance rates prior to […] Read More »

The American Association on Health and Disability (AAHD) has joined a letter sent by the I Am Essential Coalition which urges new HHS Secretary Tom Price to continue to maintain the consumer protections provided in the Affordable Care Act (ACA) as he reviews possible rules changes for the ACA. To read the news release from […] Read More »

The National Academy for State Health Policy (NASHP) has released a series of fact sheets on what effect changing or repealing the Affordable Care Act (ACA) would have on state laws as well as some of the proposals to replace the ACA. The NASHP fact sheets are as follows: An Overview of ACA Provisions in Their […] Read More »