State Flexibility To Add Adult Dental Care to Essential Health Benefits: An Update on State Action
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State Efforts to Lower Cost-Sharing Barriers to Health Care for the Privately Insured
Current federal proposals to replace the Affordable Care Act are likely to result in higher out-of-p...
Relaxing the Affordable Care Act’s Guaranteed Issue Protection: Issues for Consumers and State Options
As we've been blogging about, the Trump administration finalized a Market Stabilization rule that ma...
What’s Going on in Tennessee? One Possible Reason for Its Affordable Care Act Challenges
Recently the Governor of Tennessee observed that his state was “ground zero” for insurers pullin...
In the Midst of Federal ACA Woes, States Play an Important Consumer Protection Role
In Washington, our health policy minds are on system overload. Since the election last week, the tow...
State-Run SHOPs: An Update Three Years Post ACA Implementation
Small-business owners face unique challenges covering their employees; to lower barriers and increas...
Balance Billing for Air Ambulance Remains a Problem in Maryland
Although Maryland is among the handful of states that regulate balance billing for out-of-network si...
New Report Finds that, Under the ACA, Consumers Nationwide Are Experiencing Improved Protections in the Individual Insurance Market
The ACA includes numerous consumer protections designed to remedy shortcomings in the availability, ...
Health Affairs Podcast Discusses Early Enrollment Experience in the Health Insurance Marketplaces
The latest Health Affairs podcast discusses the significance of the early enrollment experience, fea...
Health Reform at Work: Lower Rates in New York State
Next year's premiums for individual market plans will be way down in New York thanks to the Affordab...
Breaking Down the NAIC’s Comments
In comments to federal regulators on recent proposed rules, the NAIC added its voice to the chorus o...
Market Reforms Roundup: New Report on State Action on 2014 Market Reforms
In our most recent issue brief for the Commonwealth Fund, CHIR researchers studied the progress stat...
Multi-State Plan Program Final Rule: OPM's Balancing Act
The Office of Personnel Management recently issued a final rule on the multi-state plan program in w...
Arming Navigators for the Millions of Enrollees Headed Their Way
With the fast approach to open enrollment for the new health insurance marketplaces, there is growin...
Evolving Dynamics of Health Insurance Exchange Implementation
Since the enactment of the Affordable Care Act, the roles of states and the federal government in es...
As Self-Funding Remains Hot Topic in Press, States Begin to Take Action
Whether or not small employers will begin self-funding in greater numbers as the Affordable Care Act...
Florida’s Changes to Rate Review: Heading Backward?
Of the many consumer protection tools available to health insurance regulators, one of the most powe...
Oh Where, Oh Where Are The Multi-State Plans?
More than two months after the deadline for health insurance issuers to submit applications for the ...
Race to October: Health Insurance Marketplace Readiness
On May 7th, the National Institute for Healthcare Management Foundation hosted a webinar on state ma...
A Busy Week in Health Policy
While we have certainly seen some busy weeks for Affordable Care Act implementation, we had not expe...
Spring NAIC Meeting: Insurance Commissioners Take Houston
This past week marked the first of three national conferences for the National Association of Insura...
Vermont’s Rate Fillings: What Do They Mean for Consumers?
On Monday, Vermont became the first state to release preliminary rate filings for plans to be sold i...
Diving Deep on Two New Rate Studies
With the Affordable Care Act’s most significant reforms going into effect in 2014, attention has i...
Paying for Value, By the Numbers
Everyone likes to talk about paying for value, but how is it being implemented in the real world? Sa...
Some States Consider Nondiscrimination Requirements
In implementing the Affordable Care Act, state regulators may increasingly look for ways to ensure t...
Beware the Latest Loophole
As significant an impact as the Affordable Care Act will have on the U.S. health insurance market, ...
Essential Health Benefits in the States: Selections Have Been Made but Questions Remain
In our most recent issue brief for the Commonwealth Fund, Sabrina Corlette and CHIR colleagues exami...
Putting the “Quality” in “Quality, Affordable Health Care”
As exchange watchers count down to the December 14th deadline for states to officially choose a stat...
Health Reform on the Campaign Trail
With much attention focused on this week’s Republican National Convention, Katie Keith dives in to...
New Developments in the Stop-Loss Debate
The debate over the sale of stop-loss insurance to small employers is a hot topic among health polic...
We Attend SERFF Meetings…So You Don’t Have To!
As the National Association of Insurance Commissioners meeting kicks off in Washington DC this week,...
Action on Multi-State Plans, But Still No Specifics
Last week the U.S. Office of Personnel Management (OPM) released its draft application for Multi-Sta...
State of the States: Choosing an Essential Health Benefits Benchmark Plan
To help make coverage more comprehensive, the Affordable Care Act (ACA) requires insurers to cover a...
Using Rate Review to Address Affordability of Coverage: Efforts in the States
A handful of states are taking innovative approaches to the regulation of health insurance premium r...
Waiting for 2014: One Family's Story
Thanks to the support of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, CHIRblog will feature profiles of every...
The Top Three Questions on Multi-State Plans
With the deadline looming for comments on the Office of Personnel Management's (OPM) recent pro...
NAIC – Moving Forward on Consumer Protections in the ACA
The National Association of Insurance Commissioners (NAIC) is moving forward with model state laws t...
First Public Meeting of New NAIC Working Group on Regulatory Alternatives to the ACA
On November 16, state regulators and interested parties held the first public meeting of the NAIC�...
New Report Adds Insights to Debate on Whether Florida Should Exercise Medicaid Option
Our colleagues at the Center for Children and Families are out with a new report analyzing the impac...
CCIIO Releases New Exchange Blueprint
States have consistently asked for more guidance from the federal government on health insurance exc...
The House Energy and Commerce Committee Debates ACA Implementation
The House of Representatives Energy and Commerce Committee held a hearing on December 13 to discuss ...
State of the States: Minnesota, New Mexico, and Virginia
On August 9, 2012, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation released three new reports prepared by the Urb...
The ACA and the Supreme Court: What’s Next for States and the Federal Government?
While many will be focused on the drama of the November election, Katie Keith discusses the need for...
State of the States: Trends from 10 Key States
Today, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation released four new cross-cutting reports prepared by the Ur...
New Issue Brief on State Action to Promote Child-Only Coverage
Today, the Commonwealth Fund released a new issue brief from CHIR on the availability of child-only ...
The Results are In: Now What?
With the fundamental direction of health policy in our country on the line, Americans across the cou...
Leadership and Staffing Changes at CCIIO
As HHS races against some incredibly tight deadlines between now and January 1, 2014, we've no...
CHIR Proud to Welcome New Faculty Member, Sarah Dash
CHIR - and CHIRblog - are excited to welcome a new member to our team! Allow Kevin Lucia to introduc...
State of the States: California and Colorado Identify EHB Benchmark Plans
Last week, California became the second state in the nation to pass legislation adopting its essenti...