The U.S. House of Representatives is scheduled to debate the first major proposal in three years to expand a provision of the Affordable Care Act. And it’s prompting an intra-party fight. Sabrina Corlette takes a look.
With the final rules on essential health benefits and market reforms now released, stakeholders have turned to how coverage will work for consumers. Our colleagues at the Center for Children and Families take a look at how one important set of benefits—dental care—will work for kids next year. Joe Touschner has more on some of the most important issues to watch regarding dental coverage for children.
Today Sabrina Corlette was called to provide testimony before the U.S. Senate’s Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee regarding the ACA’s insurance market reforms. In this blog, she gives us a download of the hearing’s highlights.
This past week marked the first of three national conferences for the National Association of Insurance Commissioners (NAIC) for 2013. In a post that originally appeared on the Community Catalyst Blog, Christine Barber – a consumer representative to the NAIC – highlights what you need to know from the meeting.
The SERFF team held their 7th exchange plan management meeting with state and federal officials and industry and consumer representatives in Houston this week. Sabrina Corlette was there and shares some of the latest intel.
In our most recent report, Kevin Lucia, Christine Monahan, and Sabrina Corlette assess attitudes towards and trends in self-insurance for smaller employers through interviews with stakeholders in 10 study states. Christine reviews the report’s findings and implications.
On March 15, 2013, federal regulators released guidance on how the Affordable Care Act’s new market reforms will be enforced. In a post that originally appeared on The Commonwealth Fund Blog, Katie Keith and Kevin Lucia describe how the new guidance fits into the Affordable Care Act’s enforcement framework and what the new guidance means for enforcement of the law’s most significant reforms.
On Monday, Vermont became the first state to release preliminary rate filings for plans to be sold in their health insurance exchange in 2014. Christine Monahan crunches the numbers to see what they mean for consumers.
With the Affordable Care Act’s most significant reforms going into effect in 2014, attention has increasingly turned to the price tag for consumers. Following last week’s release of not one but two analyses on projected health insurance premiums in 2014, the issue is receiving headlines once again. Christine Monahan and Katie Keith report on the major findings from these two analyses and the significant distinctions between them.
On April 1, the Department of Labor released its annual report to Congress on Self-Insured Group Health Plans. Sabrina Corlette examines its usefulness for policymakers.
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