Author Archive: Sabrina Corlette
Pass the Stuffing: There's a lot going on in the new essential health benefit rules
Summary of Benefits and Coverage: Helping Consumers Shop for Health Insurance
As of September 23, consumers will begin to receive a new summary of benefits and coverage form that describes what's covered by their insurance policy. Sabrina Corlette welcomes these new forms and discusses how they were developed as well as their potential to help tame the “wild west” of shopping for health insurance coverage.
Using Rate Review to Address Affordability of Coverage: Efforts in the States
Waiting for 2014: One Family's Story
Thanks to the support of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, CHIRblog will feature profiles of everyday people across the country who will – or have already – benefited from new consumer protections under the Affordable Care Act. Sabrina Corlette tells us about Joshua and his family's struggle to obtain affordable, quality insurance that will cover the care he needs for his heart syndrome in the first personal story in our new series, “Real Stories, Real Reforms.”
New Study Finds that Improved Coverage for Young Adults Has Increased Access to Care
NAIC – Moving Forward on Consumer Protections in the ACA
CCIIO Releases New Exchange Blueprint
States have consistently asked for more guidance from the federal government on health insurance exchanges, and, today, federal regulators delivered (at least partially). Sabrina Corlette discusses the Center for Consumer Information & Insurance Oversight's release of the final Blueprint for Approval of Affordable State-based and State Partnership Insurance Exchanges.
CHIR Faculty Member Mila Kofman Takes Helm of D.C. Insurance Exchange
Get Ready for the Rulemaking!
The election results mean full steam ahead with implementation of the Affordable Care Act. The ultimate success of the law will hinge on decisions yet to be made by the federal agencies and the states. Sabrina Corlette blogs about the flurry of regulations and guidance we can expect in the coming days and weeks.