While Indiana lawmakers have been working to reduce health care costs for commercial health insuranc...
Over the last two months, CHIR hosted a three-part webinar series about the corporate transformation...
Health insurers use of prior authorization appears to be on the rise. A recent report by CHIR resear...
On October 3, CHIR held the first in a series of in-person policy briefings on the future of employe...
The U.S. House of Representatives Education and Workforce Health Subcommittee held a hearing on heal...
Federal law now requires hospitals to publish the prices they negotiate with private insurers, yet m...
As we've been blogging about, the Trump administration finalized a Market Stabilization rule that ma...
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Medical underwriting, outlawed by the Affordable Care Act (ACA), is a practice used by insurance com...
The administration recently announced that it will require verifying documents from consumers with a...
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The administration recently published the results of its compliance review of health plans participa...
We're counting down again to Open Enrollment 3 and this year, all health plans must make accessing p...
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Most Americans see the need for more data about health insurance and how it’s working for consumer...
Although Maryland is among the handful of states that regulate balance billing for out-of-network si...
The Affordable Care Act's new health insurance marketplaces could be critical sources of data about ...
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Last week the Obama Administration took a small step forward to implement Affordable Care Act transp...
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In the last few days the federal government has released new guidance for insurance companies relati...
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As of September 23, consumers will begin to receive a new summary of benefits and coverage form that...