by Girish Anand | Aug 1, 2018 | ACA, Affordable Care Act, CMS
The Centers for Medicaid and Medicare Services (CMS) has issued a Section 1332 Waiver to Maine to allow the state to set up a reinsurance plan to help pay the medical costs of residents with certain qualifying conditions, thus helping lower the health insurance...
by Girish Anand | Jul 12, 2018 | ACA, Affordable Care Act, CMS, Health Care Reform, Obamacare
The Affordable Care Act (ACA) Navigator program, which funds groups and individuals to help walk people through the Obamacare sign-up process, is being cut financially once again by the Trump administration, this time from $36 million to $10 million. In 2017, funding...
by Girish Anand | Jul 7, 2018 | ACA, Affordable Care Act, CMS, Obamacare
UPDATE: On Tuesday, July 24, the Trump administration restored the risk-adjusted payments to prevent “chaos” in the health insurance market. Risk-adjusted payments, a principal component of the Affordable Care Act (ACA, or Obamacare) that seeks to level...
by Girish Anand | Jul 4, 2018 | ACA, Affordable Care Act, CMS, Obamacare
Though the actual number of open enrollment Obamacare policyholders who paid their premiums the first month rose over 2017 by 3 percent — standing at 10.6 million people for 2018 — those seeking policies who didn’t qualify for subsidies fell by as...
by Girish Anand | Jun 30, 2018 | CMS, Medicaid
BREAKING NEWS: Kentucky on July 2 eliminated vision and dental benefits from its Medicaid program in response to a judge’s striking down of its work requirement. Amid the heightened tensions in the nation’s capital over filling a vacant Supreme Court seat,...
by Girish Anand | Jun 28, 2018 | CMS, Medicaid
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) says it will crack down on Medicaid fraud through a renewed analytical effort “to hold states accountable” following Office of Inspector General (OIG) findings in California, Kentucky and New York....