Senator Jeff Merkley (D-OR), with sponsorship from 11 other Democrats, has introduced a bill to create a Medicare health plan for all ages that would be offered in state and federal health exchanges,...
HHS Secretary Alex Azar has appointed James Parker as Senior Advisor to the Secretary of the Office of Health Reform to address healthcare challenges related to health insurance costs and health plan...
Managed Medicaid performance does not increase as state Medicaid programs introduce more health plan variety, but a single health plan with value-based characteristics may be more effective in...
Association health plans (AHPs) may completely alter the nation’s health insurance markets with increasing support from federal entities and a handful of state insurance commissions.
An...
Humana has expanded a bundled payment model into seven additional states that will cover hip and knee replacements within Medicare Advantage populations.
The payer has teamed up with orthopedic...
A lawsuit that contends the legality of Medicaid work requirements in Kentucky has received support from 43 public health experts and 8 medical school deans who say the work requirements directly...
Significant changes to the employer-sponsored insurance market, such as increasing medical costs, policy changes, and improvements in other payer markets may cause employers to stop providing health...
CMS has proposed a new rule that deregulates certain aspects of Medicaid managed care and Medicaid fee-for-service (FFS) programs in order to reduce regulatory burdens at the state level.
The rule...
Alabama’s proposed Medicaid work requirements are likely to lead to health equity challenges by inadvertently creating eligibility barriers for vulnerable populations, according to research from...
Senator Lamar Alexander (R-TN), Senator Susan Collins (R-ME), House Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Greg Walden (R-OR) and Representative Ryan Costello (R-PA) have proposed legislation that aims...
The AHIP Board of Directors has appointed Matt Eyles as the organization’s new President and CEO to replace Marilyn Tavenner after she retires on June 1st, 2018.
Eyles was elected...
Individual insurance premiums may rise between 12 and 32 percent nationally by 2019, with cumulative increases of 34 to 94 percent by 2021, according to new research conducted by health plan actuaries...
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...
Arkansas received approval from CMS for a 1115 Medicaid demonstration that adds work requirements for Medicaid eligibility and adds a nine-month block on member re-enrollment if individuals don’t...
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...
A group of five governors developed a bipartisan plan to reform the US healthcare system by using value-based care strategies such as quality reporting, insurance stabilization policies, and...
State and federal evaluations of 1115 Medicaid demonstrations have insufficient data to determine demonstration success because states tend report fragmented program results, according a new GAO...
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...
