Today marks the one week deadline for the Special Enrollment Period (SEP) for those who are subject to the tax penalty. As we reported earlier, CMS is providing an SEP in the federally facilitated marketplaces for those tax payers who learned that they would be subject to the “shared responsibility payment,” or tax penalty, when […] Read More »

Last week, the Urban Institute released a report entitled “Taking Stock: Gains in Health Insurance Coverage under the ACA as of March 2015.” The report looks at the rates of the uninsured from the beginning of 2013 (the year before the marketplace opened) through March 2015. This report breaks down these numbers by income, age, […] Read More »

Earlier this month, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) released a report detailing the three largest small group products by state. It is these three products that are the basis for determining the essential health benefits (EHB) in each state. It is our understanding there may be some inaccuracies that states are addressing with CMS, but […] Read More »

Last week Sabrina Corlette from the Georgetown University Center on Health Insurance Reforms (CHIR) testified before the House Ways and Means Committee on how well the Affordable Care Act is working for consumers. To read more, check out the CHIR blog post here or Sabrina Corlette’s testimony can be downloaded by clicking here. Read More »

Enroll America has broken down the number of people who selected qualified health plans by county. These numbers are derived from the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) estimates of enrollment by zip code. To access the the Enroll America breakdown, click here. To access the HHS zip code data, click here. This info can also […] Read More »

Today the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) released the Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA) for navigators in both the federally facilitated marketplace as well as the state partnership marketplaces. As we reported last week, CMS will be giving 3 year grants to the navigator organizations. A letter of intent is due June 3, 2015 and […] Read More »

Last week, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) released documentation indicating that starting in the third year of open enrollment, it plans to fund the navigator organizations for three year periods. The details on the planned navigator Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA) can be found here. When the FOA is formally released, we will be sure […] Read More »

The National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI) has released a report on mental health and substance use parity entitled “A Long Road Ahead: Achieving True Parity in Mental Health and Substance Use Care.” The report gives the findings of a survey of both people and families living with mental illness as well as an analysis of health plans to […] Read More »