In most states, January 15 marks the end of the open enrollment period for 2023 coverage. While taking the final steps to enroll in a marketplace plan, there are a few important policies and procedures to keep in mind. We’ve highlighted some of the FAQs from our Navigator Resource Guide to help consumers through the process of finalizing their enrollment.
Primary care is a critical tool to prevent illness and death and improve equitable distribution of health care. In a new case study, published in collaboration with the Milbank Memorial Fund, CHIR researchers detail stakeholder efforts to expand primary care access in Columbia County, Arkansas—a county classified as a primary care health professional shortage area.
Open Enrollment is drawing to a close; in most states, consumers only have until January 15 to sign up for a 2023 marketplace plan. To help with last-minute shopping for health insurance, this week’s set of FAQs from our Navigator Resource Guide focuses on comparing plan options.
The Biden administration released a draft of the annual rule governing the Affordable Care Act marketplaces and insurance reforms. In this Expert Perspective for the State Health & Value Strategies program, Sabrina Corlette and Tara Straw review provisions of particular importance to states.
States are expected to resume redeterminations of Medicaid eligibility in early 2023, resulting in a projected 15 million people losing access to Medicaid. Ensuring these individuals transfer to another source of coverage smoothly and seamlessly is a particular challenge for states. In their latest Expert Perspective for the State Health & Value Strategies program, Jason Levitis and Sabrina Corlette delve into specific options for states to promote continuity of coverage.
The marketplaces are critical source of health insurance for small businesses, including small business owners, sole proprietors, and workers. In our weekly installment of FAQs from the Navigator Resource Guide, we highlight questions about marketplace coverage for small business owners and their employees.
Employer-sponsored insurance (ESI) covers 160 million Americans, but the adequacy of these plans is in decline. In a new series for CHIRblog, Maanasa Kona and Sabrina Corlette assess some proposed policy options designed to improve the affordability of ESI. The first blog of the series looks at the primary drivers of the erosion occurring in ESI and identifies three recognized policy options to improve affordability for employers and workers alike.
Democrats in Congress have put forward several proposals to create a public health insurance option over the past decade. In a new post for the Commonwealth Fund, CHIR’s Christine Monahan and Kevin Lucia break down the main features of four bills from the 117th Congress that would establish new public option plans.
At the end of the COVID-19 public health emergency, millions of people will lose Medicaid as states resume eligibility determinations. To help connect these consumers to a new source of affordable coverage, Oregon is considering an option under the ACA to leverage federal funding for health plans that cover lower-income consumers: a Basic Health Program (BHP). CHIR took a look at a recent state task force report recommending a BHP in Oregon to serve as a “bridge program.”
As health care costs continue to rise, stakeholders are looking to innovations in provider payments and benefit designs grounded in the known “value” of different health services. But these strategies might fail to reflect the needs, values, and preferences of certain patients. This tension is evident as the Department of Health and Human Services’ Office of Civil Rights considers whether value assessment methodologies discriminate against protected groups, such as people with disabilities and older adults.
The opinions expressed here are solely those of the individual blog post authors and do not represent the views of Georgetown University, the Center on Health Insurance Reforms, any organization that the author is affiliated with, or the opinions of any other author who publishes on this blog.
