Even the promise of employer-sponsored insurance could not increase healthcare coverage for individuals facing increasingly high premiums, according to a Kaiser Family Foundation study.
The...
In 2020, the Affordable Care Act (ACA) enrollment process will feature quality star ratings, Enhanced Direct Enrollment (EDE), health reimbursement accounts (HRAs) resources, and a more...
The fear of having no healthcare coverage drives Americans’ decisions regarding employment, according to a recent study by the TransAmerica Center for Health Studies.
The study surveyed 3,760...
The New Jersey Department of Banking and Insurance announced that it will offer $2 million for health navigators to help enrollees and re-enrollees with the transition from a federal-facilitated...
If the Affordable Care Act (ACA) was not in effect in 2018, 45 percent of families would have one non-elderly adult with a pre-existing condition for which they might be declined from healthcare...
After seven years of instability and decreasing involvement from payers, the Affordable Care Act exchanges, or the federal health insurance marketplace, will expand in 2020, the Robert Wood Johnson...
The individual health insurance market decreased another five percent in the beginning of 2019 following the individual mandate repeal, the Kaiser Family Foundation (KFF) reported.
After the enactment...
Plans on the federal health insurance exchange will publicly display quality ratings on a five-star system in plan year (PY) 2020, CMS announced. The quality ratings will be available for the 2020 open...
Indiana submitted an application for an amendment to the state’s Healthy Indiana Plan Section 1115 Demonstration that would help transition members off of the HIP and into commercial coverage....
The annual meeting of the AMA House of Delegates reaffirmed the organization’s commitment to decreasing the number of uninsured individuals through the Affordable Care Act’s (ACA) premium...
In a rare move for the health payer, Humana has brought an end to the rumors of a merger with competitor Centene.
Humana broke with company policy to not comment on potential merger and acquisition...
Eligibility, cost sharing, and the role of private health insurance will be among the primary concerns for policymakers if they choose to design a single-payer health insurance system in the US,...
The private health insurance market remains concentrated among a small number of payers, with the three largest companies holding 80 percent or more of the market, a recent GAO report found.
Three or...
Approximately 11.4 million consumers either selected or were automatically re-enrolled in Affordable Care Act (ACA) health insurance exchange plans during the open enrollment period in 2019, according...
The Trump Administration is leaving no more ambiguity about its opposition to the entirety of the Affordable Care Act.
In a brief legal memo released this week, three Department of Justice...
New Jersey will move away from the federal insurance marketplace and transition to a state health insurance exchange in 2021, Governor Phil Murphy announced last week.
The Democratic governor...
Policymakers should revise current tax policies and work to eliminate financial barriers to health insurance in order to reduce individual market premiums, says a new brief from the Blue Cross Blue...
CMS is soliciting public comments on strategies that would allow enrollees to purchase health insurance across state lines in an effort to increase competition and improve affordability for...
Democrats and Republicans from the House of Representatives have joined their Senate colleagues in introducing legislation to delay the ACA Health Insurance Tax for several years.
Representatives...
Major health payers and representative trade groups are urging CMS not to eliminate the practice of silver-loading, which has been used to stabilize premiums in a volatile and unpredictable market.
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