CMS Administrator Seema Verma informed Idaho governor C.L. “Butch” Otter (R-ID) and state insurance officials that efforts to launch an expansion of association health plan (AHPs) sales...
BlueCross BlueShield of North Carolina (BCBS of NC) earned positive ACA health plan revenues after years of financial losses, citing low medical claims and more available consumers after other payers...
The Academy of Actuaries warned insurance officials and government leaders in Idaho that the decision to expand the sale of association health plans (AHP) will destabilize ACA individual health plan...
About 71 percent of uninsured adults aware of open enrollment periods did not enroll in state or federally-based health plans because of apprehension to rising health insurance costs and waning...
AHIP supports a number of policy solutions that could reverse Trump Administration actions that have resulted in higher premiums and unstable markets.
In a new policy brief, the payer advocacy group...
CMS is proposing that consumers should be allowed to stay on short-term health plans, including association health plans, for twelve months at a time, despite the fact that these plans are generally...
Idaho will allow payers to offer association health plans (AHPs) that are not required to meet all of the consumer protections or benefits criteria included in the Affordable Care Act.
Governor...
The newly proposed HHS Budget for fiscal year (FY) 2019 says a repeal and replace of the Affordable Care Act (ACA) would save the government trillions, while restructuring Medicare and Medicaid could...
The American Academy of Actuaries released a statement reaffirming its concerns with expanding association health plan (AHPs) availability in light of perceived risks to the individual insurance...
Affordable Care Act (ACA) implementation led to an 11.9-percent decrease in out-of-pocket spending but also a 12.1-percent increase in premium spending totals, according to a study published in JAMA...
The Department of Labor (DoL) released a proposed rule that allows small businesses and employee groups to purchase association health plans (AHPs) in lieu of employer-sponsored or individual health...
Certain segments of the healthcare insurance market, including employer-sponsored insurance and Medicare Advantage (MA), will help to stabilize payer profitability in 2018, predicts a report by A.M....
2017 was a turbulent year for the Affordable Care Act. Legislative battles in Congress, fluctuating support from healthcare stakeholders, and threats of repeal have left many payers facing an...
Approximately 8.82 million beneficiaries enrolled in a health plan during the seven week 2018 ACA open enrollment period, which experienced surges in health plan purchasing activity during the...
GOP lawmakers in both the House and Senate passed a federal tax bill that includes a repeal of the ACA’s individual mandate to purchase health insurance. The bill now heads back to the...
An October executive order that expands the availability of short-term association health plans (AHPs) could present significant challenges for state governments and consumers, asserted AHIP, BCBS, and...
Consumers purchasing health insurance through the ACA exchanges are likely to actively seek out lower-cost options when enrolling or re-enrolling in individual health plans, says new data from GAO,...
A repeal of the individual mandate, as included in the current GOP Senate tax reform plan, would result in financial losses for payers that could not be offset by cost-sharing reduction payments, the...
The US’s current prescription drug policies require updates that cut prescription drug spending while increasing competition in the market, a new report from the National Academies of Sciences,...
The US Senate voted 51-49 to reform national tax policy and simultaneously repeal the Affordable Care Act’s individual mandate, major news outlets reported at the end of last week.
GOP senators...
