By Madeline McBride, Elizabeth Bielic, Zeynep Celik, JoAnn Volk, and Kevin Lucia The Affordable Care...
Current federal proposals to replace the Affordable Care Act are likely to result in higher out-of-p...
As we've been blogging about, the Trump administration finalized a Market Stabilization rule that ma...
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Recently the Governor of Tennessee observed that his state was “ground zero” for insurers pullin...
In Washington, our health policy minds are on system overload. Since the election last week, the tow...
Small-business owners face unique challenges covering their employees; to lower barriers and increas...
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Although Maryland is among the handful of states that regulate balance billing for out-of-network si...
The ACA includes numerous consumer protections designed to remedy shortcomings in the availability, ...
The latest Health Affairs podcast discusses the significance of the early enrollment experience, fea...
Next year's premiums for individual market plans will be way down in New York thanks to the Affordab...
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In comments to federal regulators on recent proposed rules, the NAIC added its voice to the chorus o...
In our most recent issue brief for the Commonwealth Fund, CHIR researchers studied the progress stat...
The Office of Personnel Management recently issued a final rule on the multi-state plan program in w...
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With the fast approach to open enrollment for the new health insurance marketplaces, there is growin...
Since the enactment of the Affordable Care Act, the roles of states and the federal government in es...
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Of the many consumer protection tools available to health insurance regulators, one of the most powe...
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More than two months after the deadline for health insurance issuers to submit applications for the ...
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...
This past week marked the first of three national conferences for the National Association of Insura...
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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In implementing the Affordable Care Act, state regulators may increasingly look for ways to ensure t...
As significant an impact as the Affordable Care Act will have on the U.S. health insurance market, ...
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In our most recent issue brief for the Commonwealth Fund, Sabrina Corlette and CHIR colleagues exami...
As exchange watchers count down to the December 14th deadline for states to officially choose a stat...
With much attention focused on this week’s Republican National Convention, Katie Keith dives in to...
The debate over the sale of stop-loss insurance to small employers is a hot topic among health polic...
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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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A handful of states are taking innovative approaches to the regulation of health insurance premium r...
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Thanks to the support of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, CHIRblog will feature profiles of every...
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With the deadline looming for comments on the Office of Personnel Management's (OPM) recent pro...
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The National Association of Insurance Commissioners (NAIC) is moving forward with model state laws t...
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On November 16, state regulators and interested parties held the first public meeting of the NAIC�...
Our colleagues at the Center for Children and Families are out with a new report analyzing the impac...
States have consistently asked for more guidance from the federal government on health insurance exc...
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The House of Representatives Energy and Commerce Committee held a hearing on December 13 to discuss ...
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On August 9, 2012, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation released three new reports prepared by the Urb...
While many will be focused on the drama of the November election, Katie Keith discusses the need for...
Today, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation released four new cross-cutting reports prepared by the Ur...
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Today, the Commonwealth Fund released a new issue brief from CHIR on the availability of child-only ...
With the fundamental direction of health policy in our country on the line, Americans across the cou...
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As HHS races against some incredibly tight deadlines between now and January 1, 2014, we've no...
CHIR - and CHIRblog - are excited to welcome a new member to our team! Allow Kevin Lucia to introduc...
Last week, California became the second state in the nation to pass legislation adopting its essenti...
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