Three in four adults would not support a federal regulation that improved healthcare price transparency if the rule raised the cost of health insurance premiums, according to a new Morning Consult...
The Supreme Court will not expedite a review of the Affordable Care Act’s (ACA’s) constitutionality.
The Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals declared the individual mandate void in December...
The America’s Health Insurance Plans (AHIP) recently espoused the Social Determinants Accelerator Act and urged a hearing to discuss how it might help the healthcare industry’s fight...
America’s Health Insurance Plans (AHIP) submitted a statement to the House Energy and Commerce Committee opposing current single-payer proposals in the United States.*
“Americans are...
America’s Health Insurance Plans (AHIP) recently issued an amicus brief in support of states covering MMCO’s health insurance tax.
The national payer organization has also been lobbying...
Out-of-network specialty visits in California may have declined by 17 percent since implementing AB 72, California’s surprise billing law, a study by the University of Southern...
The health insurance tax, mandated in the Affordable Care Act, will be back in effect in 2020 and is set to generate $15.5 billion in taxes due to CMS’s new 2020 payment rule.
“This new...
America’s Health Insurance Plans (AHIP) and Blue Cross Blue Shield Association (BCBSA) joined together to defend prior authorizations in a statement submitted to the Committee on Small...
The Orphan Drug Act no longer serves its original purpose but instead increases prescription drug spending and healthcare spending, American’s Health Insurance Plans (AHIP) stated in a recent...
America’s Health Insurance Plans (AHIP) published its letter to the Federal Interagency Task Force on Long-Term Care Insurance (Task Force) agreeing with their decision to address long-term care...
America’s Health Insurance Plans (AHIP) discouraged CMS from finalizing the risk adjustment data validation (RADV) changes suggested in the agency’s Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (NPRM)...
There are 16 percent more in-network physicians in California since the passing of the state’s surprise medical bills law — indicating that benchmark price setting may not force physicians...
Believing that having a standard value-based insurance design (V-BID) plan could fast-track the implementation of value-based insurance design principles, a team of researchers from the University of...
Payer organizations are voicing their opposition to CMS’s Medicare Outpatient Prospective Payment System (OPPS) rule, stating that publishing negotiations would prevent payers from obtaining...
The House of Representatives recently voted 419-6 to repeal the Cadillac tax, which would impact the payers and plans employers choose if the law is formally repealed.
Under the authority of the...
