Peter Nelson, the new director of the Center for Consumer Information and Insurance Oversight (CCIIO...
On March 23, 2025, we celebrated the 15th anniversary of the Affordable Care Act (ACA). In this post...
The Biden Administration has proposed a rule to expand coverage of preventive services, including ov...
Reinsurance has been a popular mechanism to stabilize insurance markets and reduce premiums. However...
As Medicaid unwinding draws to a close, millions of people have had to find new health coverage opti...
Last month CHIR stayed cool indoors to catch up on the latest in health policy research. In July, we...
Last month CHIR soaked up the sun and the latest in health policy research. This month we read studi...
Easy-enrollment programs offer states an efficient, low-cost mechanism for connecting residents with...
The days are heating up and so is the summer research! This month we read about the effects of healt...
In a new post for the Commonwealth Fund's To The Point blog, CHIR's Jalisa Clark and Christine H. Mo...
CHIR’s summer reading list includes the latest health policy literature. In July, we read about th...
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As we splashed into summer, CHIR soaked up the latest health policy research along with some rays. I...
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Happy Pride Month from CHIR! Each June, Pride is an opportunity to celebrate the LGBTQ+ community an...
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April showers bring May flowers, and May was abloom with health policy research. Last month, we read...
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The Biden administration has proposed new rules for the Affordable Care Act’s (ACA) marketplaces i...
The Biden administration is poised to finalize new rules governing the Affordable Care Act Marketpla...
Although the deadline to enroll in a marketplace plan beginning January 1 has passed in most states,...
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In most states, it’s the last week to sign up for marketplace plan that begins January 1. The Affo...
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The ACA requires that most insurers and employers cover a set of preventive health services at no co...
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In a new post for the Commonwealth Fund’s To the Point blog, Katie Keith highlights several Af...
The Biden administration has released its first major set of proposed rules governing the Affordable...
This Mother’s Day, CHIR's Rachel Schwab and Nia Gooding assessed the potential impact of a new leg...
April's latest health policy research is provided by CHIR's Nia Gooding in our monthly roundup. She ...
The “family glitch,” a loophole in federal rules, bars millions of people from subsidized covera...
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The family glitch bars millions of people from accessing reduced premiums and cost-sharing through t...
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April is Minority Health Month, a good time to consider ways to reduce the wide disparities in healt...
In the spirit of Valentine’s Day, this February CHIR’s Nia Gooding reviewed some lovely studies ...
Open Enrollment has ended in most states, and many consumers have signed up for a health insurance p...
As the autumn leaves change and the weather gets colder, we at CHIR are thankful for new health poli...
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With Open Enrollment now well underway, consumers are weighing their options for 2021 and trying to ...
This September, CHIR’s Nia Gooding reviewed new studies on state health system performance, differ...
The ACA marketplace has seen many disruptions since its implementation but in a sign of greater stab...
The 5th Circuit Court of Appeals is expected to hear arguments in litigation over the future of the ...
On a chilly March Tuesday in Washington, DC, with the stroke of just 22 pens, health care as we know...
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The Trump administration has released a new final rule to govern the Affordable Care Act's individua...
Last week Blue Cross of Idaho filed the first "state-based" health plans, products that don't comply...
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Idaho has just published rules for new, “state-based” health plans that are exempt from many of ...
Enrolling in marketplace health insurance is already a tall order for many consumers because of the ...
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President Trump signed a “very major” executive order related to health care that is “going ...
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In Part 2 of this three-part series, we look at how state departments of insurance responded to the ...
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While there may be a respite from the push to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act (ACA), a ne...
Much of the focus of the debate over repealing and replacing the ACA has been on the individual insu...
New ACA rules give insurers greater flexibility to meet metal level targets and increase cost-sharin...
Fourteen U.S. Senators have sent a letter to Secretary Price, urging him to roll back an Obama-era r...
Starting June 23, 2017, healthcare.gov will be rolling out a special enrollment period pre-enrollmen...
A handful of states have received insurers' 2018 premium rate requests for the Affordable Care Act m...
This Mother’s Day, Congress is giving mothers a new health coverage menu with options for states a...
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On April 18, the United States Court of Federal Claims dismissed Blue Cross and Blue Shield of North...
In the wake of failed congressional attempts to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act, we turn ...
The Affordable Care Act (ACA) has increased access to health care by expanding coverage and reducing...
As the health care debate continues, we face a number of unknowns. Congressional leadership and Pres...
As our country grapples with an “unprecedented opioid epidemic,” Congress is taking steps to tak...
While critics have been describing the demise of the marketplaces established by the Affordable Care...
The end of the Obama Presidency is an opportunity to step back and assess his health care legacy and...
The incoming Congress and Administration have pledged to repeal the Affordable Care Act but hope to ...
Despite the gloom and doom surrounding the Affordable Care Act (ACA), when we look back at what the ...
Medical underwriting, outlawed by the Affordable Care Act (ACA), is a practice used by insurance com...
It’s the holiday season, but rather than visions of sugar plums dancing above our heads, we have v...
The Affordable Care Act (ACA) has extended insurance coverage to 22 million people, but the law’s ...
The Affordable Care Act put in place new protections to prevent health plan benefit designs that dis...
In Washington, our health policy minds are on system overload. Since the election last week, the tow...
This past week's stunning election results have put the future of the Affordable Care Act - and heal...
The next President and Congress will likely need to consider policy options to help stabilize the Af...
Choosing a health plan is like putting a puzzle together, you need help putting all the pieces toget...
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The Affordable Care Act (ACA) has lowered financial barriers to birth control by requiring health pl...
Two new studies captured our attention recently. One, from the U.S. Department of Health & Human Ser...
Insurers and other critics have called on the Obama Administration to shorten the 3-month grace peri...
We are well into the third tax year of ACA premium tax credits and the individual shared responsibil...
The agency running the federal health insurance marketplace announced on September 30 they would pro...
Change in life is unavoidable: people move, get married, change jobs and have babies. Special enroll...
On Monday, September 26th, CHIR’s very own Sabrina Corlette spoke at a briefing on the future of A...
The latest round of news about insurance company exits and price increases in the Affordable Care Ac...
A graph has been making the rounds on the internet comparing cumulative increases in deductibles sin...
Narrow network plans, or plans with a limited network of providers, present problems for consumers a...
The Obama Administration has delayed a promised rollout of a new network size rating system on healt...
In a turbulent year for the Affordable Care Act, health insurers' second-quarter earnings calls and ...
The Obama Administration is reviewing feedback on its proposed rule to clamp down on the sale of sho...
In the late 1990s, Medicare officials faced decisions by insurers to cancel nearly half of their Med...
In the waning days of the Obama Administration, Affordable Care Act regulations continue to trickle ...
A new issue brief published by the Commonwealth Fund and authored by CHIR's newest faculty member, D...
The administration recently issued a proposal to smooth renewals for consumers affected by insurance...
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Small-business owners face unique challenges covering their employees; to lower barriers and increas...
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Limited networks have become increasingly common on ACA marketplaces, comprising almost half of all ...
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On Friday, July 15, CHIR’s very own Kevin Lucia spoke at a briefing on ACA marketplaces put on by ...
State insurance legislators held their national meeting in Portland, Oregon last week, and the demis...
As ACA opponents continue to vilify, challenge and undermine the law, four states that have been voc...
The Obama Administration has announced several new strategies to boost enrollment among young adults...
In the debate over Medicaid expansion, most of the attention has been on families in non-expansion s...
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California will soon be requesting a waiver from federal officials that would enable the state healt...
An insurance broker called a CHIR faculty member with a shady sales pitch for a short-term health pl...
HHS released the final Section 1557 rule, completing the suite of non-discrimination rules that cons...
What does coverage look like for children on the Affordable Care Act health insurance marketplaces? ...
Two-and-one-half years in, how do we assess the success and stability of the Affordable Care Act's h...
Earlier this month, the California Office of the Patient Advocate (OPA) released its first annual re...
Health reform is entering a new stage. Going forward, federal and state policymakers must decide how...
While it seems like we just finished open enrollment, the next round for 2017 coverage is right arou...
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How can we best understand the coverage gains under the Affordable Care Act? Researchers from Harvar...
What triggers a special enrollment period to allow someone to enroll on the individual market outsid...
Our very own Sabrina Corlette was invited back to the U.S. House of Representatives for the second t...
The ACA prohibits benefit limits and cost sharing that discriminate against individuals based on hea...
A new report released by Georgetown CHIR researchers used call center data from the Assister Help Re...
A new Urban Institute study examines data from the National Health Interview Survey (NHIS) to analyz...
On April 29, the Obama Administration signaled a phased-in approach to implementing the quality rati...
The NAIC held its Spring Meeting earlier this month and looked at SEPs, balance billing, risk adjust...
With health insurers' rate filings looming on the horizon, many are concerned we'll see proposed pre...
On Thursday, April 14, CHIR's own Sabrina Corlette testified before the U.S. House of Representative...
There’s no question the ACA has been successful in reducing the number of uninsured. But what has ...
Health plans have been increasingly narrowing their provider networks, raising concerns about gaps i...
Health reform advocates experienced a win last month, when a federal court in Missouri struck down t...
Three years ago, only 3 states and DC prohibited insurance companies from excluding care for transge...
Congress recently passed legislation allowing states to decide on the shape of the market for small ...
The quarterly earnings calls of publicly traded health insurance companies can provide insights into...
It’s tax time, so consumers are figuring out how to report their health insurance coverage as they...
In the wake of the Affordable Care Act's insurance market reforms, policy experts have raised concer...
At last, the Internal Revenue Service has released guidance about what to do when a consumer has ove...
The latest financial filings with the National Association of Insurance Commissioners show that 2015...
When the administration finalized Marketplace regulations for 2017 and beyond earlier this week, it ...
The Affordable Care Act brought the promise of affordable coverage to many lawfully present immigran...
The administration recently announced that it will require verifying documents from consumers with a...
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Beginning in 2017, states can pursue "innovation waivers" under section 1332 of the Affordable Care ...
While Old Man Winter barrels down on us with cold and snow, what better time to get your documents t...
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Last week, updated federal poverty levels were published in the federal register. Our colleague Tric...
For the most part, the ACA tries to align the ways that Medicaid and the health insurance marketplac...
Welcome to 2016. With first votes being cast in the 2016 election cycle less than two weeks away and...
The failure of 12 of the Affordable Care Act's CO-OP plans reveals much about the huge barriers faci...
Although it's a complicated law, there's one thing about the ACA that's not at all complicated: the ...
The deadline for having health insurance starting on January 1, 2016 is quickly approaching. Consume...
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services has finally released a long-awaited study comparing...
One of the most significant consumer protections in the Affordable Care Act (ACA) is the right to ap...
A new proposed rule from the Obama Administration contains wide-ranging new requirements for insuran...
Open Enrollment 3 (OE3) is now underway and by all accounts, things are going smoothly. There are a ...
Federal Affordable Care Act rules require the states to revisit the standard scope of benefits for i...
CHIR is pleased to release an updated online Navigator Guide on Private Health Insurance and Health ...
The third open enrollment season for the Affordable Care Act's health insurance marketplaces begins ...
The National Association of Insurance Commissioners wrapped up work on recommended changes to the Su...
We're counting down again to Open Enrollment 3 and this year, all health plans must make accessing p...
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In November, the National Association of Insurance Commissioners (NAIC) will finalize the Network Ad...
Experts and prognosticators have given widely different estimates for total enrollment through the A...
A recent Kaiser Family Foundation reports finds that 49 percent of the remaining uninsured in our co...
Most Americans see the need for more data about health insurance and how it’s working for consumer...
The year 2015 marks the 10-year anniversary of the Medicare prescription drug benefit program, known...
Whether their exchange is state-based or federally facilitated, many state policymakers are seeking ...
The Affordable Care Act's new health insurance marketplaces could be critical sources of data about ...
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This week federal officials released an updated marketplace enrollment report. While close to 10 mil...
Yesterday, the Health subcommittee of the House Energy and Commerce Committee had a hearing on H.R. ...
Last week the federal agency responsible for implementing the Affordable Care Act awarded $67 millio...
A recent study has found that as many as 2.2 million people are missing out on Affordable Care Act c...
Last week the Obama Administration took a small step forward to implement Affordable Care Act transp...
The Obama Administration has taken a step forward to implement long-delayed transparency provisions ...
The latest dust up in Washington is a fight between the Obama Administration and employer groups ove...
We’re just 12 weeks away from the start of the third open enrollment period (OE3) for the Affordab...
A new report from CHIR researchers Sandy Ahn, Jack Hoadley and Sabrina Corlette revisits six state-b...
There's been some hand-wringing over large proposed premium increases for health plans in 2016. But ...
A provider association has recently heard from member physician offices about patients enrolled in "...
In the wake of formal complaints that insurers are marketing health plans with discriminatory benefi...
Hard to believe, but open enrollment for 2016 coverage is just four months away. As we get closer to...
On July 7 the Senate Health Education Labor and Pensions Committee held a roundtable discussion abou...
In the wake of the Supreme Court's decision in King v. Burwell, our colleague at Georgetown Universi...
The Affordable Care Act's Summary of Benefits and Coverage - standardized, easy-to-use summaries of ...
There's been some renewed attention to the status and future of the small business health insurance ...
Beginning in 2016, the Affordable Care Act requires states to change the definition of "small employ...
The Affordable Care Act requires most health plans to cover preventive services without cost sharing...
State-based marketplaces created under the Affordable Care Act are contemplating their financial sus...
Discussion of new "superwaiver" authority is a hot topic among many state and health policy circles....
Did you know states need to select their Essential Health Benefits (EHB) benchmark plan for 2017 in ...
Narrow network plans were common on the health insurance marketplaces in 2014. In a new issue brief ...
Beginning this week, a new version of the change in income special enrollment period will take effec...
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) recently announced that they had fixed a techni...
In their latest web video, CHIR researchers JoAnn Volk and Sabrina Corlette discuss the findings fro...
The U.S. Department of Health & Human Services has published the first indications of where it inten...
While the ACA has successfully resulted in 16.4 million newly insured people, we don't yet know a lo...
Recent media articles touted the news that Senator Ted Cruz was planning to sign up for health insur...
A new report from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and Athenahealth finds that the newly insured u...
While open enrollment for 2015 has ended, insurers and marketplaces alike are gearing up for 2016 wi...
A recent conference hosted by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation on health system transparency allow...
The recent financial troubles of some CO-OP plans created under the Affordable Care Act have sparked...
As part of a Robert Wood Johnson Foundation-funded project to help navigators and assisters in five ...
A recent briefing hosted by the Alliance for Health Reform and the Kaiser Family Foundation offered ...
More states are establishing new special enrollment opportunities to help people gain coverage throu...
The Affordable Care Act includes a reform of the health insurance market that has received relativel...
With intense focus on enrollment in the Affordable Care Act marketplaces, enrollment through the Sma...
The current tax filing season, for the 2014 tax year, is the first in which consumers will need to i...
Congress is debating controversial legislation to shift the Affordable Care Act's definition of full...
While the ACA limits the power of insurance companies to charge higher prices to consumers based on ...
Although we are in the midst of the second open enrollment period under health care reform, we still...
The Affordable Care Act sets out several requirements for the health insurance marketplaces to encou...
Auto-renewal through the health insurance marketplaces is an important mechanism for consumers to av...
Open enrollment in the Health Insurance Marketplaces overlaps this year with many employer plan open...
On December 1, CMS published new guidance on the re-enrollment process for the federally facilitated...
One of the goals of the Affordable Care Act is to make health insurance more affordable and accessib...
The federal Department of Health and Human Services recently published a proposed regulation that si...
Last month CHIR released its Navigator Resource Guide, with background and close to 300 frequently a...
The consumer representatives to the National Association of Insurance Commissioners (NAIC) released ...
November 15th marks the start not only of open enrollment into the Affordable Care Act's health insu...
Saturday, November 15th marks the start of open enrollment in the ACA's health insurance marketplace...
With open enrollment into the Affordable Care Act's health insurance marketplaces just around the co...
The recent election brings us a new Congress and a new leadership dedicated to repeal of the Afforda...
Within the next several months, federal officials must decide whether to maintain or modify their "t...
This week, CHIR is releasing an online version of the Navigator Resource Guide, with close to 300 se...
The second open enrollment period for the health insurance marketplaces, or OE2, is mere days away. ...
Georgetown University experts from the Center on Health Insurance Reforms and the Center for Childre...
As the health insurance marketplaces prepare for the second year of operation under the Affordable C...
During the past few months, CHIR faculty have examined the proliferation of narrow provider networks...
Last week, on the day that 115,000 people who bought coverage in the federal marketplace lost that c...
A new report released by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and the Kaiser Family Foundation chronic...
Local press in D.C. recently reported on a "turf battle" between the health insurance marketplace an...
The Affordable Care Act (ACA) aims to improve access to health insurance coverage for small-business...
A major insurance company in Minnesota recently announced it would withdraw from the state's health ...
A recent Urban Institute study found that over half (57 percent) of uninsured parents are Hispanic. ...
Last week the federal Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) published final rules for the...
While open enrollment is less than three months away, consumer assisters will have to do more with l...
While most state-based marketplaces in 2014 are rightly focused on the operational challenges of con...
Health plans have been increasingly using tiered pharmacy benefit designs. These new designs raise c...
We at the Center on Health Insurance Reforms are excited to share the first of an upcoming video ser...
A federal appeals court's ruling that premium subsidies aren't available for consumers who purchase ...
Though open enrollment into the new health insurance marketplaces is a distant memory and folks are ...
The Affordable Care Act envisions that the new health insurance marketplaces will encourage plans to...
We're about 110 days away from open enrollment into coverage for 2015. In recent guidance, CMS has r...
On July 16 the Obama Administration published guidance for insurers in the federally facilitated mar...
It's getting to be a summer tradition: a new set of court decisions on the Affordable Care Act. This...
Today, Out2Enroll—a nationwide campaign dedicated to connecting LGBT people with their health insu...
One of the key consumer protections in the Affordable Care Act is the requirement that plans must ha...
The ACA includes numerous consumer protections designed to remedy shortcomings in the availability, ...
Regulations issued last month by the Department of Health and Human Services show that laws in more ...
This July the Georgetown University Law Center's O'Neill Institute for National and Global Health La...
Now that open enrollment into the new health insurance marketplaces has ended, options for consumers...
While narrow provider networks are by no means new to health insurance, the practice has received re...
In March, the Obama administration extended for two additional years a policy allowing states to per...
A recent complaint filed with the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services’ Office of Civil Ri...
In response to actions by some health plans to impose benefit-specific waiting periods for coverage ...
The Obama Administration has finalized rules to protect consumers by regulating the marketing and sa...
The Obama Administration has released final rules curtailing state laws that overly restrict the abi...
Recent legislation passed by the U.S. House of Representatives attempts to fix a problem in the Affo...
We're starting to learn more about health insurance premium rates for 2015. Whether they go up, down...
Now that open enrollment is over, consumers are starting to raise questions about their coverage. On...
While we’re struggling with Affordable Care Act (ACA) issues, there’s value in taking the time t...
Just when you thought you had figured out all the possible special enrollment periods for coverage i...
It's decision time for states considering whether to transition to a state-based, partnership, feder...
Remember the Medicaid loopers? These are people who applied for coverage through the health insuranc...
The U.S. Census Bureau is implementing changes to the questions they ask on their Current Population...
With the close of open enrollment in the new health insurance Marketplaces, it is a good time not on...
A set of new tools for state insurance regulators, as well as updated versions of some older resourc...
The Obama Administration is allowing extra time to enroll in the health insurance Marketplaces for p...
Six years in the making, an insurance exchange finally opened last month in Florida, and it’s call...
Navigators have been fielding a range of questions. One that comes up repeatedly is whether an indiv...
Recently, the Obama administration extended the enrollment period for people who've faced roadblocks...
One of the most difficult elements of enrolling in the new health insurance Marketplaces is plan sel...
The Obama Administration has announced that consumers who've faced difficulties enrolling in the new...
CHIR faculty Sally McCarty, David Cusano, and Max Farris serve as technical assistance professionals...
In a proposed regulation released Friday, March 14, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services...
One challenging question for families as they enroll in health insurance coverage on the new Marketp...
The Obama administration is proposing to provide insurers with temporary relief from an Affordable C...
While we’re struggling with Affordable Care Act (ACA) issues, there's value in taking the time to ...
Blue Cross Blue Shield of Mississippi has included a new provision in its plan description that coul...
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The Obama administration recently announced that the health insurance Marketplaces can offer consume...
The ACA established new appeal rights for consumers facing a denial of a benefit or service from the...
There are reports that at least some formerly reluctant states are thinking of moving from a federal...
In January, a federal court in Missouri became the first to rule on whether states have the legal au...
The ACA's essential health benefits and metal tier coverage standards, guaranteed issue, and communi...
A number of states recently filed amicus briefs in a court battle over whether federally facilitated...
The Administration recently released updated federal poverty level thresholds for 2014. With eligibi...
New improvements to healthcare.gov are making it easier for consumers to report life changes, correc...
Now that 2014 is here, the ACA's individual mandate is in effect. In the last few months the Adminis...
States have taken substantially varying actions to implement and enforce the Affordable Care Act’s...
Opponents of the Affordable Care Act are latching onto the law's "3Rs" (risk corridors, risk adjustm...
Millions of people are enrolling in health insurance coverage, thanks to the ACA. But one congressio...
High risk pool enrollees face particular challenges transitioning to new coverage when their coverag...
Shopping for and selecting a new health coverage plan can be challenging for many consumers. One gov...
The Affordable Care Act is designed to expand access to affordable and adequate health insurance, im...
The start of 2014 marks the transition to new health plans that must meet ACA standards for adequacy...
Implementation of the President’s proposed fix for health insurance policy cancellations rests wit...
The Kaiser Family Foundation—in collaboration with CHIR experts Kevin Lucia and Katie Keith—has...
2014 brings sweeping new health insurance protections for consumers, but for those reforms to be rea...
On the eve of the December 23 deadline to sign up for health insurance coverage, the Administration ...
Choosing the health plan that best meets your needs is no easy task, with much at stake in terms of ...
Now that healthcare.gov is finally working, attention is turning to challenges people might face as ...
Did the President tell the truth when he told the American people: "If you like your doctor, you can...
Connecting people with health coverage is a complicated process, and the last few weeks have demonst...
The Thanksgiving weekend brought news for health care consumers to be thankful for. Healthcare.gov s...
The Basic Health Program was included in the Affordable Care Act to provide states with an alternati...
Implementation of the President's proposed fix for health insurance policy cancellations rests with ...
Almost two months into open enrollment, Navigators and other consumer assisters must field a multitu...
As ACA implementation unfolds, one group that will be transitioning to new coverage is individuals e...
The Affordable Care Act includes a range of health insurance reforms that will lead to health care c...
The latest Health Affairs podcast features CHIR's Sabrina Corlette and Bob Laszewski of Health Polic...
The House Energy and Commerce Subcommittee on Health held an oversight hearing yesterday, November 1...
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Last Thursday, the President apologized to those individuals currently covered under an individual p...
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The Obama Administration will soon release the first month enrollment figures for the new health ins...
Many ACA opponents claim that the ACA will be a "job killer" and cause employers to drop coverage or...
A massive consumer outreach and education effort is underway to help consumers understand their new ...
Seventeen states have enacted rules for health insurance marketplace navigators that could hinder th...
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The early problems with the ACA's health insurance marketplaces are frustrating. But if history is a...
The U.S. House of Representatives Committee on Ways and Means held an oversight hearing during which...
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One of the latest ACA story lines involves people with individual health insurance policies receivin...
The U.S. House of Representatives began the first in what is likely to be a series of oversight hear...
With the website for the ACA's health insurance marketplace off to a rocky launch, it can be hard to...
The Obama Administration has asked health care sharing ministries to step forward to determine wheth...
There's been a lot of talk lately about the technical problems with the new websites for the health ...
The latest Health Affairs podcast discusses the significance of the early enrollment experience, fea...
Some are questioning the adequacy of health insurance on the new marketplaces. But such concerns neg...
The criticisms of the launch of the ACA's marketplaces continue to roll in, with some charging that ...
Indiana, a state with a federally facilitated health insurance marketplace, is also home to health c...
The new health insurance marketplaces created under the Affordable Care Act had a bumpy launch this ...
PBS' News Hour took a look at the early experience of the health insurance marketplaces, featuring C...
Amid the controversial launch of the Affordable Care Act's health insurance marketplaces, it is not ...
The new health insurance marketplaces open for business today. In a blog originally posted on The Co...
For those new to health policy, or even old hands that need a little brushing up, the Alliance for H...
The U.S Office of Personnel Management has revealed the insurer behind the Multi-State Plan options ...
Navigators, in-person assisters, and certified application counselors (CACs) have been getting a lot...
The Urban Institute has published a helpful analysis of proposals to delay the Affordable Care Act's...
Media outlets are reporting on a trend towards narrow network health plans offered through the Affor...
The U.S. House of Representatives' Energy and Commerce Committee held an oversight hearing to assess...
Affordable Care Act opponents are using intimidation tactics to inhibit navigators from helping cons...
It's only 19 days to the launch of the new health insurance exchanges under the Affordable Care Act....
In yet another attempt in a very long line of efforts to delay or derail the health care law, member...
You have to give them credit – health insurers are showing just how creative they can be at shirki...
The Affordable Care Act includes sweeping insurance reforms to improve the affordability and adequac...
Last week was a busy week for those focused on robust consumer assistance in the new health insuranc...
The Affordable Care Act promises consumers a more comprehensive set of health insurance benefits, bu...
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A recent Administration decision allows employers and group health plans to delay an Affordable Care...
This week the New York Times reported on an Administration decision to allow employers and group hea...
As part of a Robert Wood Johnson Foundation-funded project to monitor implementation of the Affordab...
An energetic college senior found himself on a life detour when he was diagnosed with stage 3 Hodgki...
The Department of Health and Human Services' Office of Inspector General recently examined the progr...
Today, CHIR released a new report exploring how private insurers and state regulators are incorporat...
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The Affordable Care Act requires the Qualified Health Plans (QHPs) participating in health insurance...
Last week the Administration released its final rule implementing the ACA's insurance market re...
The Diane Rehm show took a look this week at workplace wellness programs – what they are, how they...
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Yesterday three federal agencies released a set of Frequently Asked Questions about ACA implementati...
We at CHIR are excited to announce the arrival of two new colleagues who will be helping us navigate...
An often overlooked part of the workplace wellness rule is the application of "carrots and sticks" t...
The National Association of Insurance Commissioners (NAIC) has appointed former Senator Ben Nelson a...
The Administration released its final regulation on the Affordable Care Act's requirement that ...
On Friday, the Obama Administration announced that they were closing the Pre-existing Condition Insu...
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There's been a lot of angst lately about strategic decisions by the Obama Administration to delay el...
One of the key goals of the Affordable Care Act is to make health insurance coverage more affordable...
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It was another hot summer Friday for regulations with the release of the final rule on navigator and...
With just under nine months to go until the open enrollment season begins on October 1, 2013, polls ...
On Thursday the U.S. Senate Finance Committee held a hearing to examine implementation of the Afford...
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Last week HHS issued another round of Frequently Asked Questions, addressing the Basic Health Progra...
Entrepreneurs with dreams of venturing out to start their own business must now navigate a "wild we...
In a new report for The Commonwealth Fund, Sarah Dash, Kevin Lucia, Katie Keith, and Christine Monah...
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In comments to federal regulators on recent proposed rules, the NAIC added its voice to the chorus o...
In our most recent issue brief for the Commonwealth Fund, CHIR researchers studied the progress stat...
The Office of Personnel Management recently issued a final rule on the multi-state plan program in w...
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Last week CMS released a set of instructions to insurance companies seeking to sell plans in the fed...
Sabrina Corlette and Christine Monahan have co-authored an article in today's Health Affairs, "...
The health insurance provisions of the Affordable Care Act were largely off the table in the recent ...
HHS recently issued a new set of frequently asked questions designed to address some issues that hav...
The Administration says it wants young and healthy people to enroll in the new health insurance exch...
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On Sunday, June 23, there will be 100 days before the launch of the new insurance exchanges under th...
Since the enactment of the Affordable Care Act, the roles of states and the federal government in es...
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Amid debate about the cost of health insurance under the Affordable Care Act, our colleague at Georg...
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More than two months after the deadline for health insurance issuers to submit applications for the ...
Employers are increasingly turning to workplace wellness programs with an eye toward improving emplo...
Before the ACA, many people were hesitant to launch their own business because they feared losing th...
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The National Association of Insurance Commissioners (NAIC) continues its work to support states' imp...
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Last week marked the thirty-seventh time that the House has voted to repeal the Affordable Care Act....
When Stacy Cook learned she had breast cancer, her health coverage fell short. In this latest story ...
An interesting thing happened in Oregon last week after the Division of Insurance publicly posted in...
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On May 7th, the National Institute for Healthcare Management Foundation hosted a webinar on state ma...
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This week CCIIO released new guidance and model language for insurers to use in communicating with c...
While we have certainly seen some busy weeks for Affordable Care Act implementation, we had not expe...
In the last few days the federal government has released new guidance for insurance companies relati...
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A new report from Oregon examines the effect of that state's rate review program - and proposes inno...
With open enrollment for the new health insurance marketplaces just around the corner, attention is ...
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The U.S. House of Representatives is scheduled to debate the first major proposal in three years to ...
With the final rules on essential health benefits and market reforms now released, stakeholders have...
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Today Sabrina Corlette was called to provide testimony before the U.S. Senate's Health, Education, L...
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This past week marked the first of three national conferences for the National Association of Insura...
In our most recent report, Kevin Lucia, Christine Monahan, and Sabrina Corlette assess attitudes tow...
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On March 15, 2013, federal regulators released guidance on how the Affordable Care Act's new market ...
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On Monday, Vermont became the first state to release preliminary rate filings for plans to be sold i...
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With the Affordable Care Act’s most significant reforms going into effect in 2014, attention has i...
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On April 1, the Department of Labor released its annual report to Congress on Self-Insured Group Hea...
As significant an impact as the Affordable Care Act will have on the U.S. health insurance market, ...
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The National Association of Insurance Commissioners is developing a set of materials to help educate...
Planners in the District of Columbia have unanimously approved a proposal to ensure the long-term vi...
In our most recent issue brief for the Commonwealth Fund, Sabrina Corlette and CHIR colleagues exami...
On August 11, 2012, the consumer representatives to the National Association of Insurance Commission...
As exchange watchers count down to the December 14th deadline for states to officially choose a stat...
With much attention focused on this week’s Republican National Convention, Katie Keith dives in to...
The debate over the sale of stop-loss insurance to small employers is a hot topic among health polic...
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As the National Association of Insurance Commissioners meeting kicks off in Washington DC this week,...
Last week the U.S. Office of Personnel Management (OPM) released its draft application for Multi-Sta...
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Last week the Obama Administration released new, proposed rules on workplace wellness programs that ...
Last week the Obama Administration released new, proposed rules establishing minimum standards to im...
With the release of President Obama's plans for a second term in office, JoAnn Volk takes a loo...
To help make coverage more comprehensive, the Affordable Care Act (ACA) requires insurers to cover a...
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As of September 23, consumers will begin to receive a new summary of benefits and coverage form that...
A handful of states are taking innovative approaches to the regulation of health insurance premium r...
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Thanks to the support of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, CHIRblog will feature profiles of every...
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As stakeholders wrap up their comments on ACA proposed rules published last month, JoAnn Volk takes ...
A new study in the journal Health Affairs finds that the ACA's dependent coverage provision has...
With the deadline looming for comments on the Office of Personnel Management's (OPM) recent pro...
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Today, the Kaiser Family Foundation—in partnership with CHIR, the American Cancer Society, and the...
The National Association of Insurance Commissioners (NAIC) is moving forward with model state laws t...
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The National Association of Insurance Commissioners (NAIC) held its annual summer meeting in Atlanta...
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On November 16, state regulators and interested parties held the first public meeting of the NAIC�...
Our colleagues at the Center for Children and Families are out with a new report analyzing the impac...
States have consistently asked for more guidance from the federal government on health insurance exc...
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The House of Representatives Energy and Commerce Committee held a hearing on December 13 to discuss ...
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On August 9, 2012, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation released three new reports prepared by the Urb...
While many will be focused on the drama of the November election, Katie Keith discusses the need for...
Today, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation released four new cross-cutting reports prepared by the Ur...
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The election results mean full steam ahead with implementation of the Affordable Care Act. The ultim...
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A recent study documents major savings for consumers, thanks to the ACA's medical loss ratio ru...
With the fundamental direction of health policy in our country on the line, Americans across the cou...
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As HHS races against some incredibly tight deadlines between now and January 1, 2014, we've no...
CHIR - and CHIRblog - are excited to welcome a new member to our team! Allow Kevin Lucia to introduc...
Last week, California became the second state in the nation to pass legislation adopting its essenti...
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Continuing our "Real Stories, Real Reforms" series, CHIRblog presents our second profile of everyday...