Center for Health Insurance Reform

MARCH 31, 2023

The Affordable Care Act (ACA) recently celebrated its 13th anniversary with historic enrollment growth in the health insurance Marketplaces and the lowest-ever recorded uninsured rate. Stakeholder Perspectives on CMS’s 2024 Notice of Benefit and Payment Parameters: Health Insurers

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Center for Health Insurance Reform

FEBRUARY 25, 2022

The ACA requires coverage of recommended preventive services without cost-sharing for consumers enrolled in most private health plans. But even with these protections in place, some insurers improperly impose cost sharing for preventive services.

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American Medical Compliance

APRIL 17, 2024

The following Comprehensive Affordable Care Act (ACA) and Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) Compliance Training educates healthcare providers on the historical context of both Acts. The law has 3 primary goals: Make affordable health insurance available to more people. Not all states have expanded their Medicaid programs.

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Center for Health Insurance Reform

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

Dental care is an important element of comprehensive health care. The Affordable Care Act (ACA) requires coverage of pediatric dental services in many commercial plans, but the law has had less of an impact on adult dental coverage.

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HIT Consultant

JANUARY 25, 2023

What You Should Know: – Angle Health, a digital first health insurance carrier raises $58M in Series A funding, making health insurance more convenient, approachable, and affordable for employers and members.

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Center for Health Insurance Reform

MARCH 23, 2023

Continue reading → The post Happy 13th Birthday, ACA! appeared first on Center on Health Insurance Reforms. To celebrate this milestone, CHIR takes a look at the law's big accomplishments and its impact on American families.

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HIT Consultant

NOVEMBER 3, 2024

Impact on Employers There is no federal mandate dictating the minimum employer contribution towards health insurance, although many states require at least a 50% contribution. The ideal contribution percentage varies by industry, company size, and the health benefits offered. Coverage is becoming unaffordable for many.

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Center for Health Insurance Reform

JUNE 24, 2024

In a recent article for Health Affairs Forefront, CHIR's Sabrina Corlette reviews several policy actions and investments in the Affordable Care Act (ACA) that could help sustain 2023’s low uninsurance rate, and even bring it lower. However, these projections are not our destiny.

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Center for Health Insurance Reform

MARCH 24, 2022

Continue reading → The post Preparing for the Biggest Coverage Event Since the ACA: The Role of States as Medicaid Continuous Coverage Comes to an End appeared first on Center on Health Insurance Reforms.

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Center for Health Insurance Reform

AUGUST 14, 2023

CHIR’s summer reading list includes the latest health policy literature. In July, we read about the disparities in medical debt burdens, policy interventions to reduce choice errors in the Affordable Care Act (ACA) Marketplace, and the affordability of Marketplace health insurance under subsidy expansion.

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Center for Health Insurance Reform

DECEMBER 15, 2023

As 2023 comes to a close, it’s time to think about health insurance for 2024. Consumers searching for a 2024 plan online may come across products that do not have to comply with the Affordable Care Act's (ACA) consumer protections.

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Center for Health Insurance Reform

SEPTEMBER 19, 2024

Vance, candidate for Vice President of the United States, has called for replacing the ACA's insurance reforms with "high risk pools" for people with pre-existing conditions. CHIR's Sabrina Corlette revisits how high risk pools worked (or more often, didn't work) for people, prior to the ACA.

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Health Populi

MARCH 8, 2023

Many health citizens in the U.S. would likely skip receiving preventive health care services if the Affordable Care Act’s (ACA) coverage for them goes away, a Morning Consult survey found. One of the key benefits embedded in the ACA was “free” without co-pay shares for preventive care.

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Kaiser Health News

APRIL 16, 2024

In turn, sales agents used the information to either enroll them in ACA plans or switch their existing policies without their consent. Such private sector platforms, which must be approved by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, streamline enrollment by integrating with the federal ACA marketplace, called healthcare.gov.

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Health Populi

OCTOBER 14, 2024

The premium for employer-sponsored health plans grew by 6-7% between 2023 and 2024, according to the report on Employer Health Benefits 2024 Annual Survey from the Kaiser Family Foundation, KFF’s 26th annual study into U.S. companies’ spending on workers’ health care. will indeed keep on keepin’ on.

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Health Populi

OCTOBER 8, 2020

who benefits from health insurance at the workplace, the annual family premium will average $21,342 this year, according to the 2020 Employer Health Benefits Survey from the Kaiser Family Foundation. Workers receiving health insurance through their jobs have seen their portfolio of benefits changing over the years.

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Kaiser Health News

APRIL 21, 2022

He reflects on how the ACA has changed the nation’s health system, what could result if Congress fails to renew expanded premium subsidies that have helped boost coverage, and what should happen next with the health law and the millions of Americans who still lack health insurance coverage.

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Healthcare Law Blog

MARCH 25, 2022

Various smaller health insurance issuers have challenged the risk-adjustment program under the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA), alleging, among other things, that its underlying methodology favors larger insurers. Once the new rules were published, Vista Health Plan, Inc., 2018 Final Rule, 83 Fed.

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Center for Health Insurance Reform

APRIL 6, 2022

In addition to filling out our March Madness brackets, the CHIR team reviewed studies on health insurance rates during the pandemic, how the Affordable Care Act (ACA) impacted women’s health coverage, and consumer access to high-quality marketplace plans.

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Center for Health Insurance Reform

JUNE 24, 2024

The Congressional Budget Office has released its 10-year projections for the country's health insurance coverage rates.

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Center for Health Insurance Reform

DECEMBER 19, 2022

As consumers look for an affordable health plan, it can be tempting to search for plans online, which may lead people to products sold outside of the Affordable Care Act’s (ACA) marketplace.

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Center for Health Insurance Reform

MAY 16, 2022

The implementation of the Affordable Care Act (ACA) led to historic reductions in racial and ethnic disparities related to health insurance coverage. However, equal access to health coverage is not enough to ensure health equity.

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Center for Health Insurance Reform

MARCH 11, 2022

In honor of Black History Month, for the February edition of CHIR’s monthly research roundup we reviewed new health policy research centering the experiences of Black people in the U.S. Continue reading → The post February Research Roundup: What We’re Reading appeared first on Center on Health Insurance Reforms.

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Health Populi

JUNE 18, 2021

with employer-sponsored health insurance worry that a major health event in their household could lead to bankruptcy, according to research gathered by West Health and Gallup in Business Speaks: The Future of Employer-Sponsored Insurance. Health Populi’s Hot Points: U.S. One-half of U.S.

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Center for Health Insurance Reform

AUGUST 1, 2022

The ACA requires that most insurers and employers cover a set of preventive health services at no cost to enrollees. A case pending in federal court threatens to cut off consumers' access by allowing insurers to impose cost-sharing on these services or, in some cases, cease covering them altogether.

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Jane Sarashon

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

NABIP, whose members represent professionals in the health insurance benefits industry, drafted and adopted a new American Healthcare Consumer Bill of Rights launched at the meeting. The Affordable Care Act (ACA) of 2010 had embedded within the law a Patient’s Bill of Rights.

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Center for Health Insurance Reform

JANUARY 27, 2023

A federal judge is poised to gut one of the most popular provisions of the Affordable Care Act’s (ACA) preventive services requirement, potentially cutting off millions of peoples’ access to crucial care such as flu shots and cancer screenings. appeared first on Center on Health Insurance Reforms.

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Center for Health Insurance Reform

NOVEMBER 9, 2022

At the end of the COVID-19 public health emergency, millions of people will lose Medicaid as states resume eligibility determinations. Continue reading → The post Bridging the Gap: Oregon’s Proposal to Ease Coverage Transitions at the End of Public Health Emergency appeared first on Center on Health Insurance Reforms.

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Center for Health Insurance Reform

SEPTEMBER 9, 2024

As Medicaid unwinding draws to a close, millions of people have had to find new health coverage options, many of them through the Affordable Care Act (ACA) Marketplaces.

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Center for Health Insurance Reform

MARCH 31, 2022

In the proposed Notice of Benefit and Payment Parameters for 2023, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services asked for feedback on how to promote health equity through ACA marketplace operations and plan certification standards.

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Center for Health Insurance Reform

APRIL 29, 2022

As many as 16 million people are expected to lose Medicaid once the COVID-19 public health emergency ends. One-third of these could be eligible for ACA marketplace plans.

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Center for Health Insurance Reform

OCTOBER 21, 2024

The Affordable Care Act (ACA) marketplaces have become vital lifelines for millions, especially for communities of color, significantly reducing the uninsured rate and expanding access to affordable coverage.

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Center for Health Insurance Reform

SEPTEMBER 30, 2024

This month we read about the growing divergence between Medicare Advantage bids and payments, the impact of enhanced premium tax credits by race and ethnicity, and about how narrow or broad ACA marketplace physician networks really are.

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Center for Health Insurance Reform

OCTOBER 19, 2023

The annual open enrollment period for Affordable Care Act (ACA) Marketplace coverage kicks off November 1 in most states.

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Center for Health Insurance Reform

JULY 15, 2024

Easy-enrollment programs offer states an efficient, low-cost mechanism for connecting residents with comprehensive, affordable health care coverage.

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Health Populi

SEPTEMBER 17, 2020

Census Bureau found that the level of health insurance enrollment fell by 1 million people in 2019 , with about 30 million Americans not covered by health insurance. The coronavirus pandemic has only exacerbated the erosion of the health insured population. lacked health insurance.

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Bill of Health

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

has some of the world’s leading medical facilities and research institutions, and the ability to deliver the highest available quality of care, it ranks last among rich nations in providing equitable, accessible, affordable, and high-quality health care. America is the only wealthy nation to lack universal health coverage.

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