by Girish Anand | Mar 20, 2019 | Affordable Care Act, COBRA, Obamacare
Though in many cases a departing employee would be better served obtaining subsidized insurance on the Obamacare exchanges, employers are still required to inform departing employees and their qualified beneficiaries of the option to extend their company-based health...
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 3, 2019 | ACA, Affordable Care Act, Obamacare
Conceding that the Trump administration’s goal is to end the Affordable Care Act (ACA, or Obamacare), U.S. District Judge Ellen Hollander nonetheless has tossed a lawsuit by Maryland that claimed the administration’s anti-ACA actions were harming the...
by Girish Anand | Jan 27, 2019 | ACA, Affordable Care Act, Association Health Plans, DOJ, DOL, ERISA, Obamacare
A George W. Bush-appointed federal judge seems poised to put the kibosh on the Trump administration’s initiative to widen the use of association health plans (AHPs) by allowing for multi-state and multi-employer AHPs, something not allowed under the Affordable...
by Girish Anand | Jan 15, 2019 | ACA, Affordable Care Act, Obamacare
After a California judge blocked it in 13 western states, a federal judge in Philadelphia on Monday put the full kibosh on the slated implementation of the Trump administration’s new contraceptive rule for Obamacare, which would allow businesses to opt out of...