The Association of Health Care Journalists has released an updated, interactive 50-state Media Guide...
More hot days mean more hot research! This month we read about the growing divergence between Medica...
Last month CHIR stayed cool indoors to catch up on the latest in health policy research. In July, we...
The days are heating up and so is the summer research! This month we read about the effects of healt...
The family glitch bars millions of people from accessing reduced premiums and cost-sharing through t...
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President Biden has recently signed an executive order to re-open the federal marketplace for a COVI...
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As the snow continues to fall, the CHIR team has cozied up indoors with new health policy research. ...
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In the third and final part of our blog series reviewing stakeholder comments on the 2022 Notice of ...
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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Open enrollment for the Obamacare marketplaces begins on November 1. While CHIR has been working har...
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Last week Blue Cross of Idaho filed the first "state-based" health plans, products that don't comply...
Idaho has just published rules for new, “state-based” health plans that are exempt from many of ...
As the health care debate continues, we face a number of unknowns. Congressional leadership and Pres...
Last week, HHS, Treasury and Labor released a proposed revised template for the Summary of Benefits ...
While Old Man Winter barrels down on us with cold and snow, what better time to get your documents t...
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A recent briefing hosted by the Alliance for Health Reform and the Kaiser Family Foundation offered ...
With intense focus on enrollment in the Affordable Care Act marketplaces, enrollment through the Sma...
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 federal appeals court's ruling that premium subsidies aren't available for consumers who purchase ...
Navigators have been fielding a range of questions. One that comes up repeatedly is whether an indiv...
Blue Cross Blue Shield of Mississippi has included a new provision in its plan description that coul...
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Almost two months into open enrollment, Navigators and other consumer assisters must field a multitu...
The Affordable Care Act includes a range of health insurance reforms that will lead to health care c...
The House Energy and Commerce Subcommittee on Health held an oversight hearing yesterday, November 1...
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The latest Health Affairs podcast discusses the significance of the early enrollment experience, fea...
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...
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...
The Affordable Care Act promises consumers a more comprehensive set of health insurance benefits, bu...
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As part of a Robert Wood Johnson Foundation-funded project to monitor implementation of the Affordab...
The Affordable Care Act requires the Qualified Health Plans (QHPs) participating in health insurance...
Yesterday three federal agencies released a set of Frequently Asked Questions about ACA implementati...
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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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...
In a new report for The Commonwealth Fund, Sarah Dash, Kevin Lucia, Katie Keith, and Christine Monah...
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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 ...
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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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When Stacy Cook learned she had breast cancer, her health coverage fell short. In this latest story ...
On May 7th, the National Institute for Healthcare Management Foundation hosted a webinar on state ma...
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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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With open enrollment for the new health insurance marketplaces just around the corner, attention is ...
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In our most recent report, Kevin Lucia, Christine Monahan, and Sabrina Corlette assess attitudes tow...
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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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Everyone likes to talk about paying for value, but how is it being implemented in the real world? Sa...
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With much attention focused on this week’s Republican National Convention, Katie Keith dives in to...
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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To help make coverage more comprehensive, the Affordable Care Act (ACA) requires insurers to cover a...
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As stakeholders wrap up their comments on ACA proposed rules published last month, JoAnn Volk takes ...
With the deadline looming for comments on the Office of Personnel Management's (OPM) recent pro...
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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...
The House of Representatives Energy and Commerce Committee held a hearing on December 13 to discuss ...
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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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With the fundamental direction of health policy in our country on the line, Americans across the cou...
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Last week, California became the second state in the nation to pass legislation adopting its essenti...
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The Office of Personnel Management has released new information about the Multi-State Plan Program, ...
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