New Administration Plans to Reinstate Cuts to Funding for ACA Outreach and Enrollment Assistance
By Rachel Swindle, Jalisa Clark, and Justin Giovannelli One of the first actions by the Centers for ...
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A New Rule to Limit ACA Enrollment Periods May Deter Sign-Ups and Worsen Risk Pools
Recent proposals from the Trump administration and Congress would shorten or eliminate the windows o...
June Research Roundup: What We’re Reading
For June's monthly roundup of health policy research, Nia Gooding reviewed studies on ground ambulan...
Removing Roadblocks: Special Enrollment Period Data Show Increase in Marketplace Signups
Last month, the Biden administration established a temporary special enrollment period (SEP) on the ...
Navigator Guide FAQs Of The Week: Who is Eligible for Financial Assistance?
President Biden has recently signed an executive order to re-open the federal marketplace for a COVI...
Navigator Guide FAQ of the Week: Who Is Eligible To Purchase Coverage Through the Marketplace?
November 1 marked the first day of open enrollment on the Affordable Care Act marketplaces. To help ...
As Maryland Charts a New Course for Lowering Barriers to Coverage, Feds Could Raise Them
Maryland is implementing a program that offers a new, easy way to enroll in comprehensive and afford...
Swimming against the Tide: Policies in State-Based Marketplace States Help Counter Negative Trends in Uninsurance Rates
The latest U.S. Census data show the uninsured rate for nonelderly adults is rising, including amo...
August Research Round Up: What We’re Reading
This August, CHIR's Olivia Hoppe summarized helpful resources on premiums and cost-sharing for worki...
Is There Really A Question? Intervenor States Have Clear Interest in Defending the Affordable Care Act
The Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals has asked the parties in Texas v. United States to file supplemen...
ACA Marketplace Open Enrollment Numbers Reveal the Impact of State-Level Policy and Operational Choices on Performance
During the last open enrollment period, the Affordable Care Act’s marketplaces faced a number of h...
I’m A Certified Application Counselor. This Year’s Open Enrollment Will Be the Most Challenging Yet
Enrolling in marketplace health insurance is already a tall order for many consumers because of the ...
Relaxing the Affordable Care Act’s Guaranteed Issue Protection: Issues for Consumers and State Options
As we've been blogging about, the Trump administration finalized a Market Stabilization rule that ma...
The Final Countdown for 2017 Coverage Underway in the Shadows of Affordable Care Act Repeal
Extended to December 19, 2016, consumers have four more days to enroll in an Affordable Care Act mar...
Though the ACA Faces Tough Critics, Millions are Having an Easier Time Paying Medical Bills
The Affordable Care Act (ACA) has extended insurance coverage to 22 million people, but the law’s ...
Simple Choice Plans Debut on Healthcare.Gov
Simple Choice plans, standardized benefit designs with fixed cost-sharing amounts and pre-deductible...
Reaching the Uninsured: Outreach Strategy for Open Enrollment 4
Healthcare.gov will be taking lessons learned from the past three open enrollments, as well as its o...
The Affordable Care Act: Efforts to Address Barriers to Health Equity
Disparities in health insurance coverage and accessing health care continue to be a challenge in the...
Ch-ch-ch-ch-changes: Special Enrollment Periods Provide Essential Coverage During Common Life Transitions, but Many People Don’t Know They Exist
Change in life is unavoidable: people move, get married, change jobs and have babies. Special enroll...
Increasing Deductibles in Employer Coverage: A Story Over a Decade in the Making
A graph has been making the rounds on the internet comparing cumulative increases in deductibles sin...
State-Run SHOPs: An Update Three Years Post ACA Implementation
Small-business owners face unique challenges covering their employees; to lower barriers and increas...
New Health Affairs Policy Brief Examines the Regulation of Health Plan Provider Networks
Limited networks have become increasingly common on ACA marketplaces, comprising almost half of all ...
Kaiser Family Foundation Survey on Assister Programs Reflects Signs of Progress – and Opportunities for Improvement
Assister programs and brokers play an integral role of navigating consumers through the marketplace ...
New Rules on Special Enrollment Periods: What Do They Mean for Consumers and the Assisters Who Help Them?
What triggers a special enrollment period to allow someone to enroll on the individual market outsid...
Healthcare.gov Changing Approach to Special Enrollment Periods, May be Bumpy Road for Consumers
The administration recently announced that it will require verifying documents from consumers with a...
Shop to Renew During Open Enrollment
While many consumers with marketplace coverage will be eligible for automatic renewal, there are man...
Updated Navigator Resource Guide
CHIR is pleased to release an updated online Navigator Guide on Private Health Insurance and Health ...
Accessing Provider Directories and Formularies: CHIR Goes Sleuthing
We're counting down again to Open Enrollment 3 and this year, all health plans must make accessing p...
Half of the Uninsured are Eligible for ACA Coverage
A recent Kaiser Family Foundation reports finds that 49 percent of the remaining uninsured in our co...
New Resource on Enrollment Now Available
As we draw nearer to the start of Open Enrollment 3, a new resource is available from the Centers fo...
Why ACA Marketplaces Should Report Comprehensive Enrollment Data
The Affordable Care Act's new health insurance marketplaces could be critical sources of data about ...
New Report: The Experience of Six State-Based Marketplaces with First Year Renewals
A new report from CHIR researchers Sandy Ahn, Jack Hoadley and Sabrina Corlette revisits six state-b...
Highlights on the FFM Approach for 2016 Open Enrollment
Hard to believe, but open enrollment for 2016 coverage is just four months away. As we get closer to...
Health Savings Accounts: Understanding the Basics
There are various routes to getting health insurance coverage for you and your family. One possible ...
Question on Stand-alone Dental Plans and Upcoming Open Enrollment
With the change in weather, we're beginning to field questions related to the upcoming 2015 Open Enr...
Consumer Assistance: Getting the Most Out of Limited Resources
While open enrollment is less than three months away, consumer assisters will have to do more with l...
Summing Up Questions from Navigators: A Grab Bag of Consumer Queries
Though open enrollment into the new health insurance marketplaces is a distant memory and folks are ...
Enrollment is Going Up and Costs are Going Down: Some Recent Good News for the Health Insurance Exchanges
The Thanksgiving weekend brought news for health care consumers to be thankful for. Healthcare.gov s...
Beware a Rush to Judgment Based on Early Enrollment Numbers
The Obama Administration will soon release the first month enrollment figures for the new health ins...
House Ways and Means Congressional Hearing on ACA’s Website Woes Tackles Broader Policy Questions
The U.S. House of Representatives Committee on Ways and Means held an oversight hearing during which...
Health Affairs Podcast Discusses Early Enrollment Experience in the Health Insurance Marketplaces
The latest Health Affairs podcast discusses the significance of the early enrollment experience, fea...
Measuring ACA Enrollment: Lessons from Medicare Part D
The criticisms of the launch of the ACA's marketplaces continue to roll in, with some charging that ...
Attacks on Navigators Continue at House Energy and Commerce Committee Hearing
The U.S. House of Representatives' Energy and Commerce Committee held an oversight hearing to assess...
HHS Launches Outreach to Educate Public about Exchange Coverage; Unveils Name and Website for the Federal Exchange
With just under nine months to go until the open enrollment season begins on October 1, 2013, polls ...
Will New Laws in States with Federally Run Health Insurance Marketplaces Hinder Outreach?
Although the federal government will play a primary role in administering the navigator program in t...