by Girish Anand | Mar 11, 2019 | ACA, Affordable Care Act, CMS, PPACA
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) has issued a request for information (RFI) that solicits recommendations on how to eliminate regulatory, operational and financial barriers to enhance issuers’ ability to sell health insurance coverage across...
by Girish Anand | Mar 9, 2018 | ACA, Affordable Care Act, CMS, Obamacare, PPACA
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid (CMS) yesterday stepped in to void Idaho’s attempt to sell health insurance policies that do not meet the standards of the Affordable Care Act (ACA). CMS Administrator Seema Verma sent a letter to Idaho Gov. C.L. “Butch”...
by Girish Anand | Jun 22, 2017 | ACA, Obamacare, PPACA
Gearing up for a hoped-for vote before the July 4th holiday, the U.S. Senate (actually, its Republican leadership) this morning released details about its proposed Better Care Reconciliation Act of 2017 in pursuit of the GOP’s goal to “repeal and...
by Girish Anand | May 30, 2017 | ACA, HHS, Obamacare, PPACA
In a report issued this past week, the Office of the Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation (ASPE) in the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) said that health insurance premiums offered on HealthCare.gov have doubled since the start of the...
by Girish Anand | May 25, 2017 | ACA, Obamacare, PPACA
Blue Cross and Blue Shield of North Carolina, the largest Obamacare insurer in the state, has announced it intends to hike health insurance premiums by 22.9 percent in 2018 unless the Trump administration guarantees to continue doling out what are called cost-sharing...
by Girish Anand | May 22, 2017 | ACA, Obamacare, PPACA
Facing an appeals hearing on an Obamacare lawsuit brought by House Republicans, President Donald Trump’s administration has asked a U.S. Court of Appeals for another 90 days to resolve the legal issue with regard to the so-called cost-sharing reduction payments...
