by Girish Anand | Sep 28, 2016 | ACA, Affordable Care Act, Health Care Reform, HHS, Obamacare, PPACA
With the sign-up of young persons lagging behind the needs of balancing young and old, healthy and sick, the administration is turning to cyberspace and other initiatives to lure young people into signing up for health insurance on the Affordable Care Act (ACA)...
by Girish Anand | Aug 21, 2016 | ACA, Health Care Reform, HHS, HIPAA
On this day (Aug. 21) in 1996, President Bill Clinton signed into law the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA), which as its title implies protects people with pre-existing conditions when they change jobs and need new health insurance. From...
by Girish Anand | Aug 16, 2016 | ACA, Affordable Care Act, Health Care Reform, Obamacare
Aetna Inc., citing losses of at least $300 million this year on Affordable Care Act (ACA) health insurance policies, announced it is abandoning the Obamacare marketplaces in 11 of the 15 states it currently serves, leaving Pinal County in Arizona with no insurer...
by Girish Anand | Apr 26, 2016 | CHIP, CMS, Health Care Reform, HHS, Medicaid
On Monday the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) issued a final rule to overhaul managed care in the Medicaid and Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP) systems. The final rule has four key goals, according to HHS: (1) supporting states’ efforts...
by Girish Anand | Feb 29, 2016 | Affordable Care Act, CMS, Health Care Reform
After big insurers like UnitedHealthcare threatened to leave the Obamacare exchanges because of abuse of the system, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) announced this past week that it was creating a Special Enrollment Period (SEP) Confirmation...
by Girish Anand | Jan 12, 2016 | ACA, Affordable Care Act, Health Care Reform, Obamacare, PPACA
Through October 2015, the Obamacare provision that allows states to enroll anyone earning less than 138 percent of the federal poverty level into Medicare has netted 13.5 million new enrollees, eclipsing marketplace sign-ups — both state and federal — by a...