The federal government has taken a series of actions to strengthen the Affordable Care Act (ACA) and...
Open Enrollment is in full swing, but consumers should beware of “junk plans” when shopping for ...
April is Minority Health Month, a good time to consider ways to reduce the wide disparities in healt...
After seven enrollment cycles on HealthCare.gov, New Jersey and Pennsylvania both launched new state...
Last month, the Biden administration established a temporary special enrollment period (SEP) on the ...
In the third and final part of our blog series reviewing stakeholder comments on the 2022 Notice of ...
In one of the Trump administration's last acts, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services final...
Open Enrollment in most states ends next week, on December 15. As consumers continue to weigh their ...
As the autumn leaves change and the weather gets colder, we at CHIR are thankful for new health poli...
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Half a dozen states have announced they will transition from HealthCare.gov to their own, state-run ...
Last week, Pennsylvania Governor Tom Wolf signed legislation to establish a state-based health insur...
During the last open enrollment period, the Affordable Care Act’s marketplaces faced a number of h...
Spring has arrived, and the research is blooming! This March, CHIR's Olivia Hoppe was buzzing around...
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Last month, the Board of New Mexico’s health insurance exchange voted to transition from HealthCar...
On September 12, the Centers for Medicaid and Medicare Services released the in-person assistance aw...
Blink and you may have missed it - open enrollment for HealthCare.gov was much shorter this year and...
With the close of Open Enrollment for federally run marketplaces last week, preliminary reports sugg...
Open enrollment for 2018 Affordable Care Act coverage ends on December 15th. While in the midst of t...
Open enrollment for 2018 started last week on the Affordable Care Act’s health insurance marketpla...
It's been a bumpy year for state insurance and marketplace officials, thanks to considerable uncerta...
While Congress shifts away from talking about how to replace the Affordable Care Act to stabilizing ...
In Part 2 of this three-part series, we look at how state departments of insurance responded to the ...
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As we've been blogging about, the Trump administration finalized a Market Stabilization rule that ma...
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The Affordable Care Act brought the promise of affordable coverage to many lawfully present immigran...
With open enrollment set to close in two week, enroll now before or on January 15 to get coverage by...
Open Enrollment 3 (OE3) is now underway and by all accounts, things are going smoothly. There are a ...
Whether their exchange is state-based or federally facilitated, many state policymakers are seeking ...
This week federal officials released an updated marketplace enrollment report. While close to 10 mil...
Health care policy debates can often be confusing but the rapidly shifting positions in the latest t...
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) recently announced that they had fixed a techni...
November 15th marks the start not only of open enrollment into the Affordable Care Act's health insu...
Now that open enrollment into the new health insurance marketplaces is over, the only way people can...
The Obama administration recently announced that the health insurance Marketplaces can offer consume...
New improvements to healthcare.gov are making it easier for consumers to report life changes, correc...
Now that healthcare.gov is finally working, attention is turning to challenges people might face as ...
The Thanksgiving weekend brought news for health care consumers to be thankful for. Healthcare.gov s...
The U.S. House of Representatives Committee on Ways and Means held an oversight hearing during which...
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