Marketplace enrollees are facing threats to their health coverage and healthcare affordability as a ...
With the recent signing of H.R. 1, many may be wondering what this means for their Medicaid and Mark...
In May, the Departments of Health and Human Services, Labor, and the Treasury announced several acti...
As U.S. health care spending continues to spiral higher, states are using a variety of tools to push...
Pharmacy benefit managers have received significant public attention for their exploitative, cost in...
While the health plan price transparency data available under current guidance and enforcement have ...
As Congress debates policies that would disenroll millions of people from both Medicaid and marketpl...
An obscure provision in the U.S. House reconciliation bill could have major consequences for the Aff...
The Trump administration's proposed "Marketplace Integrity" rule has generated almost 26,000 public ...
With infectious diseases such as measles on the rise, many Americans are wondering what they can do ...
Last fall, the Biden Administration finalized a rule updating standards for the Mental Health Parity...
In February, the Trump administration issued an executive order outlining steps for federal agencies...
On March 23, 2025, we celebrated the 15th anniversary of the Affordable Care Act (ACA). In this post...
The Association of Health Care Journalists has released an updated, interactive 50-state Media Guide...
A new proposal in New York State seeks to reduce rising outpatient care costs by implementing site-n...
The Biden Administration has proposed a rule to expand coverage of preventive services, including ov...
The 2021 expansion of federal premium tax credits (PTCs) drove uninsured rates to a record low in 20...
The 2008 Mental Health Parity and Addiction Equity Act (MHPAEA) is the primary federal law protectin...
As hospitals and health systems expand their ownership and control of ambulatory care practices, the...
With more outpatient care being delivered in hospital outpatient departments (HOPDs) than in previou...
In a new post for the Commonwealth Fund's To The Point blog, CHIR's Jalisa Clark and Christine H. Mo...
On Tuesday, May 21st, Georgetown University's Center on Health Insurance Reforms held the final of t...
The US Department of Labor recently finalized regulations governing the formation of Association Hea...
Millions of Americans rely on Health Care Sharing Ministries (HCSM) in lieu of insurance to provide ...
CHIR’s summer reading list includes the latest health policy literature. In July, we read about th...
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While the federal COVID-19 Public Health Emergency (PHE) ended in May, the PHE declaration for the o...
Winter is finally over, and health policy research is in full bloom. In March, we read about dispari...
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Happy New Year! The holiday season may be over, but health policy researchers continue to bestow gif...
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The leaves may be changing, but the importance of health policy research is evergreen. Last month, w...
In a new post for the Commonwealth Fund’s To the Point blog, Katie Keith highlights several Af...
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April is Minority Health Month, a good time to consider ways to reduce the wide disparities in healt...
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Open Enrollment has ended in most states, and many consumers have signed up for a health insurance...
As the autumn leaves change and the weather gets colder, we at CHIR are thankful for new health poli...
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In honor of Halloween, this October CHIR's Nia Gooding reviewed spooky studies on the projected impa...
November 1 marked the first day of open enrollment on the Affordable Care Act marketplaces. To help ...
Spring has arrived, and the research is blooming! This March, CHIR's Olivia Hoppe was buzzing around...
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This November, we at CHIR celebrated Thanksgiving with a Research Buffet. CHIR's Olivia Hoppe digs i...
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The Center on Health Insurance Reforms held its first-ever Tweetchat in light of the release of our ...
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From price variation in hospital services paid by private insurers to how the Affordable Care Act (A...
Summer is over, but health policy researchers have hardly taken a vacation. In August's research rou...
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New York Attorney General Barbara Underwood (D) and Massachusetts Attorney General Maura Healey (D) ...
State officials, insurers, and consumer advocates and assisters are gearing up for a hectic 2019 enr...
A handful of states are moving forward with plans to implement state-level individual health insuran...
In a report released this week by the National Alliance for Mental Illness (NAMI), Georgetown resear...
George K. Hoppe was the owner of a small architectural firm in Lavallette, New Jersey. He designed b...
The Departments of Labor, Health & Human Services, and Treasury received over 9,000 comments on thei...
In this month’s research round up, CHIR's Olivia Hoppe looks into analyses of the success of recen...
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In preparation for the day when a progressive vision for health reform may have more supporters in t...
In CHIRblog’s April installment of What We’re Reading, CHIR's Olivia Hoppe digs into reports th...
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On March 1st, a coalition of stakeholders, including Georgetown University’s Center on Health Insu...
In December, President Trump signed the Republican tax reform bill into law, which among other thing...
The Trump administration is expected to reverse federal limitations on short-term insurance, which ...
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The final 2019 Notice of Benefit and Payment Parameters has been submitted to the White House for re...
Marketplace enrollment is upon us. November 1 marks the start to the fifth open enrollment season. T...
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Another day, another version of the Graham-Cassidy bill. This new version makes numerous technical c...
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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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This Mother’s Day, Congress is giving mothers a new health coverage menu with options for states a...
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Health savings accounts play a key role in most Republican plans to repeal and replace the Affordabl...
State leaders have been heartened by statements from the new President and Congressional leaders tha...
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...
Despite the gloom and doom surrounding the Affordable Care Act (ACA), when we look back at what the ...
Extended to December 19, 2016, consumers have four more days to enroll in an Affordable Care Act mar...
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 ...
Choosing a health plan is like putting a puzzle together, you need help putting all the pieces toget...
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Simple Choice plans, standardized benefit designs with fixed cost-sharing amounts and pre-deductible...
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The Affordable Care Act (ACA) has lowered financial barriers to birth control by requiring health pl...
Disparities in health insurance coverage and accessing health care continue to be a challenge in the...
On Monday, September 26th, CHIR’s very own Sabrina Corlette spoke at a briefing on the future of A...
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 Justice Department just stepped in to prevent two health insurance mergers. The health care mark...
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While it seems like we just finished open enrollment, the next round for 2017 coverage is right arou...
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What triggers a special enrollment period to allow someone to enroll on the individual market outsid...
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...
Last week, HHS, Treasury and Labor released a proposed revised template for the Summary of Benefits ...
The administration recently issued guidance clarifying marketplace residency requirements and the sp...
With open enrollment set to close in two week, enroll now before or on January 15 to get coverage by...
Medical students are taught to care for the whole person. Shouldn't that include care for the patien...
CHIR is pleased to release an updated online Navigator Guide on Private Health Insurance and Health ...
Yesterday, the Health subcommittee of the House Energy and Commerce Committee had a hearing on H.R. ...
While open enrollment for 2015 has ended, insurers and marketplaces alike are gearing up for 2016 wi...
There are various routes to getting health insurance coverage for you and your family. One possible ...
Open enrollment in the Health Insurance Marketplaces overlaps this year with many employer plan open...
Understanding how health insurance works can be confusing, particularly when it comes to deductibles...
One of the goals of the Affordable Care Act is to make health insurance more affordable and accessib...
This week, CHIR is releasing an online version of the Navigator Resource Guide, with close to 300 se...
A recent Urban Institute study found that over half (57 percent) of uninsured parents are Hispanic. ...
Blue Cross Blue Shield of Mississippi has included a new provision in its plan description that coul...
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2014 brings sweeping new health insurance protections for consumers, but for those reforms to be rea...
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...
The new health insurance marketplaces open for business today. In a blog originally posted on The Co...
You have to give them credit – health insurers are showing just how creative they can be at shirki...
A number of states have acted in recent years to exempt health care sharing ministries from traditio...
Last week the Administration released its final rule implementing the ACA's insurance market re...
Yesterday three federal agencies released a set of Frequently Asked Questions about ACA implementati...
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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Next year's premiums for individual market plans will be way down in New York thanks to the Affordab...
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One of the key goals of the Affordable Care Act is to make health insurance coverage more affordable...
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On Thursday the U.S. Senate Finance Committee held a hearing to examine implementation of the Afford...
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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 our most recent issue brief for the Commonwealth Fund, CHIR researchers studied the progress stat...
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 ...
The Administration says it wants young and healthy people to enroll in the new health insurance exch...
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Before the ACA, many people were hesitant to launch their own business because they feared losing th...
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Rhode Island's insurance regulators are using their rate review authority in innovative ways to make...
The National Association of Insurance Commissioners (NAIC) continues its work to support states' imp...
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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 ...
Today Sabrina Corlette was called to provide testimony before the U.S. Senate's Health, Education, L...
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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...
Everyone likes to talk about paying for value, but how is it being implemented in the real world? Sa...
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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...
On August 11, 2012, the consumer representatives to the National Association of Insurance Commission...
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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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 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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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�...
States have consistently asked for more guidance from the federal government on health insurance exc...
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Our friend and CHIR colleague, Mila Kofman, has been named the Executive Director of the health insu...
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...
Welcome to CHIR's new blog - we’re excited to introduce ourselves and launch a new forum to s...
Today, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation released four new cross-cutting reports prepared by the Ur...
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Today, the Commonwealth Fund released a new issue brief from CHIR on the availability of child-only ...
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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Although proposals to allow the sale of health insurance across state lines are believed to help con...
The Office of Personnel Management has released new information about the Multi-State Plan Program, ...
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health insurance exchange,
Implementing the Affordable Care Act,
Multi-State Plans,
Office of Personnel Management,
OPM,
rate review