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 »

Last week, the Healthcare.gov marketplace released a toolkit designed to help consumers go all the way through the process of enrollment to utilizing their health insurance. So if you are getting ongoing questions from consumers you’ve assisted, be sure to check out this resource. It can be downloaded by clicking here. It can also be […] Read More »

Earlier this week in conjunction with the five year anniversary of the Affordable Care Act’s passage, the HHS Office of the Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation (ASPE) released two reports on the effect of Medicaid expansion. The first was on the economic impact of Medicaid Expansion in states where it was expanded verses those where it […] Read More »

Today marks the five year anniversary of President Obama signing the Affordable Care Act into law. In recognition of the ACA’s accomplishments in its first five years, the White House has released a report entitled “Accomplishments of the Affordable Care Act.” To download the report, click here. Read More »

Today, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) released the Eligibility Determinations and Enrollment Report from January 2015. To read the report from CMS, click here. The report can also be found on our Resources & Links page under “Enrollment Statistics.” Read More »

Previously, we had posted a blog post on Medicaid churn. As we explained then, churning is when an individual’s income fluctuates and they go between Medicaid eligibility and eligibility for coverage through the Marketplace. To read this blog post, click here. The Commonwealth Fund has released an analysis of churning and what needs to happen to […] Read More »

Last week, HHS through the Office of the Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation (ASPE) released another enrollment report which encompasses the entire open enrollment period from November 15, 2014 through February 1, 2015. To read the full report from ASPE, click here. The report can also be found on our Resources & Links page under “Enrollment Statistics.” ASPE has also released […] Read More »

Last month, Milliman released a report which looked at the marketplaces in the federally facilitated marketplace states and how competition in the number of carriers and plans (or lack thereof) affected plan premiums. It also looked at how the number of hospitals in a geographic area affected premiums. To download a copy of this report, […] Read More »