Horizon Blue Cross Blue Shield of New Jersey and Anthem Blue Cross and Blue Shield are joining forces with leading providers to offer new health plans.
Horizon BCBSNJ announced a new Medicare...
Smoking can lead to higher premiums, a recent study on the tobacco surcharge and tobacco users’ Affordable Care Act marketplace premiums revealed.
According to the Centers for Disease Control...
Under a newly revised bill from the California state legislature, California health plans will have to cover mental health conditions to the same extent they do medical services in an effort to achieve...
CMS has confirmed that Georgia’s Section 1332 state innovation waiver, which changes the Affordable Care Act exchange model, is complete. The waiver will now move into a public comment...
Affordable Care Act marketplace beneficiaries who enroll in plans during special enrollment periods tend to exhibit higher healthcare spending, a recent Health Affairs article revealed.
The...
Two out of every five working-age adults in the first half of 2020 had unstable healthcare coverage and a third faced medical debt, a Commonwealth Fund study recently uncovered.
The survey is a part...
On August 14, the Federal Circuit court made two decisions affecting payers which centered around practices meant to lower costs for Affordable Care Act marketplace enrollees: government reimbursement...
New York has announced 2021 premium rates and the state appears to be following CMS’s lead for 2020 rates by keeping 2021 rates low.
The New York State Department of Financial Services announced...
Around one-fifth of Americans continue to rely on consumer assistance to navigate their healthcare coverage options, but not all of them can access the help that they need, a Kaiser Family Foundation...
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) announced that it will allow payers to use premium credits to temporarily lower the individual and small group exchange premiums for...
The US District Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit upheld the Trump Administration’s decision to extend the potential duration of short-term limited duration health plans.
The...
Consumers are willing to pay more for broader provider networks and many, including women, also place high priority on maintaining coverage for providers to whom they are already connected when...
As graduates entered a job market stalled by the pandemic, the United Hospital Fund recommended that the state of New York begin offering tax credits toward health insurance premiums linked to student...
The medical loss ratio is a financial standard that plans on the Affordable Care Act exchanges must uphold. It sets the baseline for how much of payer revenue must go directly toward covering consumer...
Overall, nationwide healthcare coverage levels have remained steady because many furloughed workers are still receiving healthcare coverage through an employer-sponsored plan, Commonwealth Fund...
The House of Representatives voted to expand the Affordable Care Act only days after the White House reiterated its resolve to dismantle the Affordable Care Act altogether.
The House of...
Private payers are facing steeper competition from Medicaid health plans on the Affordable Care Act marketplaces, a Robert Wood Johnson Foundation study found.
Researchers surveyed six...
Major payers and payer organizations objected to the finalized HHS nondiscrimination rule—Affordable Care Act Section 1557—saying that the rule eliminates much of the specific language in...
Medicaid expansion has an impact on women’s health by opening up access to longer-acting, effective contraceptives that can prevent unwanted pregnancies in adults and adolescents, a study...
If all of the nonexpansion states adopted Medicaid expansion, thus establishing total Medicaid expansion nationwide, there would be a 28 percent reduction in uninsurance, the Urban Institute found in...
