Posts tagged with: coverage and access
Publications:
Building Behavioral Health System Capacity
This report, supported by the National Institute for Health Care Reform, examines strategies to build and sustain the capacity of the BH delivery system.
Protecting Consumers From the Corporate Transformation of Health Care
As corporations and private equity increasingly take control of our health care systems and profits take precedence over care, patients are caught in the middle.
Enforcing Mental Health Parity: State Options to Improve Access to Care
This issue brief describes state policy efforts to strengthen enforcement of mental health parity laws and expand access to care, including by combining existing enforcement tools with new strategies like reviewing access data and insurers’ benefit determination processes.
If Expanded Federal Premium Tax Credits Expire, State Affordability Programs Won’t Be Enough to Stem Widespread Coverage Losses
This analysis finds that state-funded subsidies cannot offset cost increases and coverage losses if enhanced federal ACA premium tax credits expire.
Enhancing Essential Health Benefits: How States Are Updating Benchmark Plans to Improve Coverage
This issue brief describes how states are updating ACA benchmark plans to expand covered benefits and improve consumer protections.
Protecting Patients from Unexpected Outpatient Facility Fees: States on the Precipice of Broader Reform
This report examines how outpatient facility fee costs drive up consumer and health system costs, analyzes state laws and policymaker responses across 11 states, and proposes policies to protect patients and reform outpatient facility fee billing practices.
Uneven Ground: Differences in Language Access Across State-Based Marketplaces
This issue brief analyzes variation in language access policies across state-based marketplaces and their implications for equitable coverage access.
Policy Innovations in the Affordable Care Act Marketplaces
This issue brief describes how state-run ACA marketplaces are using flexibility to adopt policies designed to reduce administrative burdens, help consumers navigate health plan options, require or incentivize insurer participation, and reduce health and coverage disparities.
State-Based Marketplace Outreach Strategies for Boosting Health Plan Enrollment of the Uninsured
This issue brief presents findings from a survey of state-based ACA marketplaces regarding advertising, outreach and enrollment strategies for open enrollment.
Blog Posts:
Cash is No Substitute for Coverage: Why Health Insurance Matters
As Congress ends the government shutdown, the debate over extending enhanced premium tax credits rem...
Translating Clinical Guidelines into Insurance Coverage Standards: High Stakes for Diabetes Access
As states move to regulate prior authorization and other utilization management practices, growing s...
The Dismantling of Obamacare Starts August 25 – Unless Litigation Can Stop It
The first of numerous federal policies that reverse recent coverage gains under the the Affordable C...
The Reconciliation Bill Eliminates Long-Standing State Flexibility to Operate Marketplaces and Regulate Private Health Insurance
The budget reconciliation bill passed by the U.S. House of Representatives would eliminate much of t...
Congress’ Proposed Paperwork Requirements Could Leave New Families, Laid-off Workers, and Self-Employed Without Health Coverage
The Senate will soon consider the “One Big, Beautiful Bill” that would make changes to Marketpla...