Stakeholder Perspectives on CMS’ Proposed “Marketplace Integrity” Rule: Consumer and Patient Advocate Organizations
The Trump administration’s proposed “Marketplace Integrity” rule has generated almost 26,000 p...
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Stakeholder Perspectives on CMS’ Proposed “Marketplace Integrity” Rule: State Insurance Departments and Marketplaces
The Trump administration’s proposed “Marketplace Integrity” rule has generated almost 26,000 p...
Stakeholder Perspectives on CMS’ Proposed “Marketplace Integrity” Rule: Health Care Providers
The Trump administration’s proposed “Marketplace Integrity” rule has generated almost 26,000 p...
Stakeholder Perspectives on CMS’ Proposed “Marketplace Integrity” Rule: Health Insurers and Brokers
The Trump administration's proposed "Marketplace Integrity" rule has generated almost 26,000 public ...
State Spotlight: New Massachusetts Law Enhances Oversight of Private Equity in Health Care
Massachusetts recently enacted a law to increase transparency and oversight of private equity in hea...
State Spotlight: The Use Of Provider-Based Reference Pricing In Oklahoma And South Carolina
Like other employer health plans across the commercial insurance market, state employee health plans...
Georgetown CHIR & Association of Health Care Journalists Release Update to Health Insurance Tool
The Association of Health Care Journalists has released an updated, interactive 50-state Media Guide...
September Research Roundup: What We’re Reading
While the weather may be cooling down, the research is not! This month we read about Medicare Advant...
Taking a Look at California’s Program to Assist People Losing Medi-Cal Enroll in Marketplace Coverage
A recently enacted law creates a streamlined pathway to health insurance for individuals who are fou...
State And Federal Efforts To Improve Ownership Transparency
While there is some movement toward improved health care provider ownership transparency at the fede...
How States Can Use Tax and Unemployment Filings to Sign People Up for Health Insurance
Easy-enrollment programs offer states an efficient, low-cost mechanism for connecting residents with...
May Research Roundup: What We’re Reading
The days are heating up and so is the summer research! This month we read about the effects of healt...
Raise the Bar: State-Based Marketplaces Using Quality Tools to Enhance Health Equity
In a new post for the Commonwealth Fund's To The Point blog, CHIR's Jalisa Clark and Christine H. Mo...
Policy Innovations in the Affordable Care Act Marketplaces
The Affordable Care Act's Marketplaces have seen record signups for 2024. Marketplaces can pursue in...
Proposed 2025 Payment Rule: Marketplace Standards And Insurance Reforms
Last month, the Biden administration proposed changes to Affordable Care Act (ACA) Marketplace polic...
What States Are Doing to Keep People Covered as Medicaid Continuous Coverage Enrollment Unwinds
Several state-based Marketplaces have deployed innovative programs to keep people covered during the...
What’s New for 2024 Marketplace Enrollment?
The annual open enrollment period for Affordable Care Act (ACA) Marketplace coverage kicks off Novem...
September Research Roundup: What We’re Reading
As we fall into autumn weather, CHIR continues to keep up with the latest health policy research. In...
Stakeholder Perspectives on CMS’s 2024 Notice of Benefit and Payment Parameters: State Insurance Departments and Marketplaces
The Biden administration has proposed new rules for the Affordable Care Act’s (ACA) marketplaces i...
Implementing the Family Glitch Fix on the Affordable Care Act’s Marketplaces
A record number of people have signed up for health insurance through the Affordable Care Act’s ma...
Navigator Guide FAQs of the Week: What to Know About Off-marketplace Plans
Although the deadline to enroll in a marketplace plan beginning January 1 has passed in most states,...
Navigator Guide FAQs of the Week: Coverage of Reproductive Health Care
In most states, it’s the last week to sign up for marketplace plan that begins January 1. The Affo...
State-Based Marketplace Outreach Strategies for Boosting Health Plan Enrollment of the Uninsured
The tenth annual open enrollment period for the Affordable Care Act’s marketplaces is upon us. In ...
Delays Extending The American Rescue Plan’s Health Insurance Subsidies Will Raise Premiums And Reduce Coverage
Congress has spent months debating an extension of enhanced premium tax credits enacted under the Am...
June Research Roundup: What We’re Reading
It’s finally summer, and during the latest heat wave, the CHIR team cooled off with new health pol...
Improving Race and Ethnicity Data Collection: A First Step to Furthering Health Equity Through the State-Based Marketplaces
The ACA’s marketplaces are working to advance health equity. State-based marketplaces are uniquely...
Mitigating Coverage Loss When the Public Health Emergency Ends: The Role of the Affordable Care Act Marketplaces
As many as 16 million people are expected to lose Medicaid once the COVID-19 public health emergency...
Three New State-Based Marketplaces are Up and Running
We’re a week into Affordable Care Act marketplace open enrollment, and it looks like the three new...
The Final 2022 Notice of Benefit & Payment Parameters: Implications for States
In its first major rulemaking related to the Affordable Care Act, the Biden administration published...
State-Based Marketplaces Gear Up to Implement the American Rescue Plan
The state-based health insurance marketplaces are taking varied approaches to implementing the enhan...
Rookie Report: How did New Jersey and Pennsylvania State Marketplaces Fare in Their Inaugural Enrollment Period?
After seven enrollment cycles on HealthCare.gov, New Jersey and Pennsylvania both launched new state...
The American Rescue Plan: What You Need to Know about Enhanced Premium Tax Credits
President Biden signed the American Rescue Plan Act on March 11, 2021. The bill includes several pro...
Federal Policy Priorities for Preserving and Improving Access to Coverage: Perspectives from State-Based Marketplaces
The Affordable Care Act’s health insurance marketplaces provide a critical source of coverage and ...
Many States with COVID-19 Special Enrollment Periods See Increase in Younger Enrollees
President Joe Biden directed his administration to reopen the federal health insurance marketplace,...
Stakeholder Perspectives on CMS’s 2022 Notice of Benefit and Payment Parameters. Part 2: State Insurance Departments and Marketplaces
In one of the Trump administration's last acts, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services final...
2020 – It’s a Wrap. CHIR Takes Stock of a Tumultuous, but Busy Year
We at Georgetown CHIR look back at this tumultuous, tragic, and eventful year and are thankful we ha...
The Draft 2022 Notice of Benefit & Payment Parameters: Implications for States
On November 25, the Trump administration released a proposed regulation, the 2022 "Notice of Benefit...
During the COVID-19 Crisis, State Health Insurance Marketplaces Are Working to Enroll the Uninsured
As the coronavirus pandemic and economic shutdown continue, the Affordable Care Act’s health insur...
Idaho Misses Opportunities to Help Consumers Get Affordable, Comprehensive Health Coverage During COVID-19 Pandemic
Since the COVID-19 pandemic began, states have taken charge of responding to the public health emerg...
COVID-19 Response: States That Run Their Own ACA Marketplace Are Better Positioned to Help Consumers Get Covered
During the current public health and financial crises brought by the COVID-19 pandemic, the ACA’s ...
Our Top Ten Health Insurance Policy Issues to Watch in 2020
CHIR is back from vacation and strapping in for a busy 2020. These are the top ten health insurance ...
New Georgetown CHIR Report: In Trump Era, States Revisit the Benefits and Risks of Running Their Own Health Care Marketplace
Half a dozen states have announced they will transition from HealthCare.gov to their own, state-run ...
States Looking to Run Their Own Health Insurance Marketplace See Opportunity for Funding, Flexibility
Last week, Pennsylvania Governor Tom Wolf signed legislation to establish a state-based health insur...
2019 Insurer Participation: A “Quieter” Year As Companies Maintain, Expand Their Presence
Since implementation of the Affordable Care Act, insurer participation in the ACA marketplaces has f...
Stakeholders React to HHS’s Notice of Benefit and Payment Parameters for 2020. Part 3: Consumer Advocates
On April 18, 2019, the Department of Health and Human Services finalized changes to the Affordable C...
Stakeholders React to HHS’s Notice of Benefit and Payment Parameters for 2020. Part 2: State Insurance Departments and Marketplaces
On April 18, 2019, the Department of Health and Human Services finalized changes to the Affordable C...
March Research Round Up: What We’re Reading
Spring has arrived, and the research is blooming! This March, CHIR's Olivia Hoppe was buzzing around...
The Proposed 2020 Notice of Benefit and Payment Parameters: Summary and Implications for States
The U.S. Department of Health & Human Services has released a new set of rules and standards for the...
Proposed Marketplace Program Integrity Rule: Summary and Implications for States
The U.S. Department of Health & Human Services has proposed new standards for Affordable Care Act ma...
States Lean In as the Federal Government Cuts Back: Navigator and Advertising Funding for the ACA’s Sixth Open Enrollment
With open enrollment into the Affordable Care Act marketplaces beginning November 1st, there will be...
States Opt to Run their Own Exchanges to Save Money, Reclaim Autonomy
Last month, the Board of New Mexico’s health insurance exchange voted to transition from HealthCar...
Proposed “Public Charge” Rule Risks Immigrants’ Access to Private Coverage, Too
A federal proposal would make it more difficult for immigrants to obtain a green card if they've rec...
Bracing for an Affordable Care Act Enrollment Season Without Navigators: Risks for Consumers and the Market
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services announced on July 10, 2018 that they would fund up to...
June Research Round Up: What We’re Reading
State officials, insurers, and consumer advocates and assisters are gearing up for a hectic 2019 enr...
Stakeholders Respond to the Proposed Short-term, Limited Duration Insurance Rule. Part III: State Insurance Departments and Marketplaces
The Departments of Labor, Health & Human Services, and Treasury received over 9,000 comments on thei...
May Research Round Up: What We’re Reading
In this month’s research round up, CHIR's Olivia Hoppe looks into analyses of the success of recen...
April Research Round Up: What We’re Reading
In CHIRblog’s April installment of What We’re Reading, CHIR's Olivia Hoppe digs into reports th...
How Did State-Run Health Insurance Marketplaces Fare in 2017?
In a new Commonwealth Fund issue brief, CHIR's Justin Giovannelli and Emily Curran interviewed leade...
Affordable Care Act Navigators: Unexpected Success During 2018 Enrollment Season Shouldn’t Obscure Challenges Ahead
Heading into open enrollment for 2018 marketplace coverage, experts predicted far fewer people would...
Insurer Participation in ACA Marketplaces: Federal Uncertainty Triggers Diverging Business Strategies
A reliable indicator of health insurance markets’ stability is insurer participation, including th...
State-Based Marketplaces Push Ahead, Despite Federal Resistance
Open enrollment for 2018 started last week on the Affordable Care Act’s health insurance marketpla...
Proposed 2019 Affordable Care Act Payment Rule: A Big Role for States
The U.S. Department of Health & Human Services published an annual set of proposed rules for the Aff...
States Work to Preserve Affordable Care Act Progress amidst Federal Disorder
It's been a bumpy year for state insurance and marketplace officials, thanks to considerable uncerta...
Relaxing the ACA’s Regulations: Stakeholders Respond to HHS’ Request for Information, Part 2 – State Departments of Insurance
In Part 2 of this three-part series, we look at how state departments of insurance responded to the ...
2017 Federal and State Marketplace Trends Show Value of Outreach
The fourth open enrollment period ended in early 2017, with dwindling momentum behind enrollment eff...
Proposed Trump Administration Rule Shortens Open Enrollment: Policy Goals, Potential Impact, and State Options
In February, the Trump administration proposed a number of rules that they hope will stabilize the i...
Proposed Pre-Verification Process for Special Enrollment Periods: Policy Goals, Potential Impact, and the need for State Flexibility
In the wake of failed congressional attempts to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act, we turn ...
Stakeholders React to HHS’ Proposed Market Stabilization Regulations: Part 1 – Insurers
In February, the Department of Health & Human Services released proposed rules affecting the ACA's h...
States That Leaned In on the Affordable Care Act Have Much to Lose
In the wake of the Affordable Care Act's passage, 17 states embraced the chance to set up and manage...
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...
CHIR Expert Sabrina Corlette Talks Marketplace Problems, Possible Solutions at Alliance for Health Reform Briefing
On Monday, September 26th, CHIR’s very own Sabrina Corlette spoke at a briefing on the future of A...
Wisconsin’s Objection to Automatic Re-enrollment of Enrollees in Federally Facilitated Marketplaces
The administration recently issued a proposal to smooth renewals for consumers affected by insurance...
When Policy Isn’t Put Into Practice: State-Based Marketplaces Fail to Meet Goals of Standardizing Benefit Designs
As the federal insurance marketplace moves forward to standardize health plan benefit designs, what ...
Understanding ACA’s Coverage Gains: Welcome Mat Effect & State Marketplaces Keys to Success
How can we best understand the coverage gains under the Affordable Care Act? Researchers from Harvar...
Obama Administration Delays Implementation of Star Ratings, Transparency Requirements for Marketplace Health Plans
On April 29, the Obama Administration signaled a phased-in approach to implementing the quality rati...
States Innovation Waivers under the ACA: A Closer Look at the Updated Federal Guidance and State Proposals
Beginning in 2017, states can pursue "innovation waivers" under section 1332 of the Affordable Care ...
2016 Insurer Participation Remains Stable in State-Based Marketplaces
In the wake of the high-profile closures and departures of some health plans from the individual mar...
State Efforts to Reduce Consumers’ Cost-Sharing for Prescription Drugs
High drug prices have been in the news lately, and consumers are bearing an ever-greater burden of t...
Shop to Renew During Open Enrollment
While many consumers with marketplace coverage will be eligible for automatic renewal, there are man...
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...
The Latest on Special Enrollment Periods: An Assessment of State Approaches in 2014 and Update for 2015
Special enrollment is available to individuals who experience qualifying events allowing them to enr...
The Affordable Care Act’s Requirements for Quality Improvement in the Health Insurance Marketplaces: What Recent Federal Action Tells Us
The Affordable Care Act sets out several requirements for the health insurance marketplaces to encou...
Renewing Coverage under the ACA: Challenges and Opportunities for Federally Facilitated and State-based Marketplaces
December 15th marks the last day by which health insurance marketplace enrollees can actively renew ...
State Marketplace Approaches to Financing and Sustainability
While the Affordable Care Act provided significant start-up funds for the development of the new hea...
Major Policy Changes Take a Backseat to IT During a Transitional Year for Health Insurance Marketplaces
As the health insurance marketplaces prepare for the second year of operation under the Affordable C...
Turf Battle or Promising Partnership? Understanding Marketplaces’ Responsibility to Offer Affordable Health Insurance
Local press in D.C. recently reported on a "turf battle" between the health insurance marketplace an...
Major Minnesota Insurer Withdraws from State Marketplace: What Does it Mean for Consumers?
A major insurance company in Minnesota recently announced it would withdraw from the state's health ...
The Next Frontier: Insurance Marketplaces That Promote Quality Improvement
While most state-based marketplaces in 2014 are rightly focused on the operational challenges of con...
ACA Days of Summer
It's getting to be a summer tradition: a new set of court decisions on the Affordable Care Act. This...
New Report on Key Lessons for LGBT Outreach and Enrollment under the Affordable Care Act
Today, Out2Enroll—a nationwide campaign dedicated to connecting LGBT people with their health insu...
New State-Based Marketplaces Unlikely in 2015, but Technology Challenges Create More Shades of Gray
It's decision time for states considering whether to transition to a state-based, partnership, feder...
Help for Consumers Who Faced Marketplace Glitches
The Obama administration recently announced that the health insurance Marketplaces can offer consume...
Last Call for State-Based Health Insurance Marketplaces
There are reports that at least some formerly reluctant states are thinking of moving from a federal...
Halbig v. Sebelius and State Motivations to Opt for Federally Run Exchanges
A number of states recently filed amicus briefs in a court battle over whether federally facilitated...
Helping People Select Insurance Coverage: A Tale of Two Programs
Shopping for and selecting a new health coverage plan can be challenging for many consumers. One gov...
Under Pressure: An Update on Restrictive State Insurance Marketplace Consumer Assistance Laws
Seventeen states have enacted rules for health insurance marketplace navigators that could hinder th...