by Girish Anand | Mar 25, 2019 | ACA, Affordable Care Act, Obamacare
In announcing the final tally for enrollment in Obamacare plans for 2019 through the exchanges, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) today also announced that health insurance plans that are not compliant with all new mandates but were...
by Girish Anand | Mar 25, 2019 | ACA, Affordable Care Act, Obamacare
New Jersey has opted to leave the Affordable Care Act (ACA, or Obamacare) federal exchange at HealthCare.gov and create its own online portal for the start of the 2021 health insurance open enrollment period. “A New Jersey exchange will be a strong measure of...
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 | Feb 20, 2019 | ACA, Affordable Care Act, Obamacare
The nation’s health insurance companies have been winning lawsuit after lawsuit over the Trump administration’s decision to end cost-sharing reduction (CSR) payments in 2017. CSR payments are a feature of the Affordable Care Act (ACA, or Obamacare) that...
by Girish Anand | Feb 12, 2019 | ACA, Affordable Care Act, Medicaid, Obamacare
The legislature has approved — and Utah Gov. Gary R. Herbert (R.) has signed — legislation that curtails the wish of state voters who, in November, approved a referendum expanding access to Medicaid to residents with incomes up to 138 percent of the...
by Girish Anand | Feb 10, 2019 | ACA, Affordable Care Act, SHOP
The Small Business Health Insurance Options Program (SHOP), which got off to a troubled start in 2014 on HealthCare.gov, breathes its last today, as the function shifts to brokers who will sell small business policies henceforth under the Affordable Care Act (ACA, or...