July is rate review season for state insurance departments. Proposed premiums for 2025 can help reve...
The U.S. significantly under-invests in primary care, even though the benefits of primary care acces...
A handful of states are working to improve health insurance affordability by boosting their insuranc...
As summer was winding down, CHIR was reading up on the latest health policy research. In August, we ...
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The "Colorado Option" - a unique state effort improve health insurance affordability - is underway. ...
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services has published proposed rate changes for 2024 Marketplac...
Health insurers have begun to submit their proposed premium rates for 2023, and they're not looking ...
The American Rescue Plan Act has led to record-high marketplace enrollment and significant savings f...
This open enrollment, Washington State residents can once again purchase first-in-the-nation public ...
In our newest monthly roundup of health policy research, CHIR intern Madison Berry reviews studies e...
Several states ask for – and publicly post – health insurers’ proposed 2022 premium rates in M...
At the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, many predicted that insurers would need to dramatically hike ...
Changes in premiums are a key indicator of the overall health of an insurance market. CHIR's Sabrina...
Since implementation of the Affordable Care Act, insurer participation in the ACA marketplaces has f...
Insurers have started to propose some pretty eye-popping premium increases for Affordable Care Act c...
The U.S. Department of Health & Human Services published an annual set of proposed rules for the Aff...
While members of Congress debate possible bipartisan actions on the ACA, the future sustainability o...
In Part 2 of this three-part series, we look at how state departments of insurance responded to the ...
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Insurers are starting to submit their proposed plans and rates for 2018 coverage to state regulators...
State leaders have been heartened by statements from the new President and Congressional leaders tha...
Medical underwriting, outlawed by the Affordable Care Act (ACA), is a practice used by insurance com...
As ACA opponents continue to vilify, challenge and undermine the law, four states that have been voc...
As states finalize premium rates for marketplace plans by August 25, we'll know the extent of change...
There's been some hand-wringing over large proposed premium increases for health plans in 2016. But ...
State insurance regulators face the challenge of sustaining staffing levels achieved thanks to Affor...
May 15th marks the official start of rate review season for health insurers' proposed 2016 premium r...
Local press in D.C. recently reported on a "turf battle" between the health insurance marketplace an...
"The rates are coming, the rates are coming." The release of 2015 health insurance premium rates pro...
Last week the Administration released its final rule implementing the ACA's insurance market re...
Next year's premiums for individual market plans will be way down in New York thanks to the Affordab...
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The Office of Personnel Management recently issued a final rule on the multi-state plan program in w...
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Last week CMS released a set of instructions to insurance companies seeking to sell plans in the fed...
Of the many consumer protection tools available to health insurance regulators, one of the most powe...
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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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An interesting thing happened in Oregon last week after the Division of Insurance publicly posted in...
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A new report from Oregon examines the effect of that state's rate review program - and proposes inno...
On Monday, Vermont became the first state to release preliminary rate filings for plans to be sold i...
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A handful of states are taking innovative approaches to the regulation of health insurance premium r...
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Our friend and CHIR colleague, Mila Kofman, has been named the Executive Director of the health insu...
The election results mean full steam ahead with implementation of the Affordable Care Act. The ultim...
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The Office of Personnel Management has released new information about the Multi-State Plan Program, ...
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