With rising employer-sponsored health plan costs, limited options under the Affordable Care Act (ACA), and millions of people losing employer-sponsored health coverage since the onset of COVID-19,...
Healthcare coverage remains out of reach for many low-income Americans due to cost, but three innovative solutions for Connecticut might shed light on how to bolster payer coverage affordability, a...
Over three-quarters of Affordable Care Act marketplace enrollees will have three or more payer options in 2021, a Kaiser Family Foundation (KFF) report found.
That represents an 11 percent increase...
The Government Accountability Office (GAO) has released a report finding high market concentration across the payer industry and that having increased health plan options does not necessarily reduce...
The individual health insurance market’s premiums mostly go towards highly utilized services, a Robert Wood Johnson study discovered.
“The requirement that these essential benefits be...
As the Supreme Court deliberates the fate of the Affordable Care Act after hearing the oral arguments, payers and the public alike are processing the court case and its implications for the healthcare...
After losing their employer-sponsored health plans, many adults are shifting to public and non-group plans, emphasizing the important role that the Affordable Care Act plays in health insurance, an...
At 10am EST on November 10, the Supreme Court heard the oral arguments in the California v Texas regarding the Affordable Care Act’s constitutionality.
The case is pivotal as the outcomes could...
The number of uninsured children in Louisiana in 2019 was 28.2 percent higher than its low number of uninsured children in 2017, following a national trend in childhood uninsurance, the Louisiana...
Individual coverage health reimbursement arrangements (ICHRAs), which have been offered as the alternative to the Affordable Care Act, have negative impacts on low-income New Yorkers, according to a...
States use Affordable Care Act flexibilities in innovative ways to set definitions for curative care, implement reimbursement models, and care coordination in Medicaid pediatric care for children with...
The downward trend in ACA exchange premiums continued this year with the average premium for the benchmark plan dropping two percent for 2021 coverage year, although some premiums remain up to 36...
Compared to 2019, the fully-insured group health insurance markets and Medicare Advantage markets have seen their margins increase and loss ratios decrease in the first half of 2020, with Medicare...
Update 11/5/2020: This article has been corrected to state that the Supreme Court will hear the oral arguments regarding the Affordable Care Act’s constitutionality on November 10, 2020. A...
Children’s health insurance coverage is not stable even under the Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP), a recent study published in Health Affairs discovered.
“The current...
Under Medicaid expansion, Texas could receive around $5.4 billion from the federal government to cover Medicaid costs. The state could also cover a larger portion of its significant uninsured...
Since the passing of late Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, many have questioned whether the Affordable Care Act is at risk of being overturned, a potentiality that would be extremely...
Update 11/5/2020: This article has been corrected to state that the Supreme Court will hear the oral arguments regarding the Affordable Care Act’s constitutionality on November 10, 2020. A...
Healthcare improvements through the Affordable Care Act marketplaces had stalled before the coronavirus pandemic struck the US and COVID-19 has only further exposed the system’s weaknesses, the...
Major payers are beginning to send out individual and small group rebate checks for 2019, providing some financial relief for members, as the Tennessee Department of Commerce and Insurance...
