States Given Flexibility in Insurance Markets with Waivers
On Monday, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services released a guidance that gave states more power to overhaul their own individual insurance markets through the 1332 waiver. The waiver [...]
Republicans Pressured to Keep Promise on Pre-Existing Conditions Coverage
According to GOP leaders, House and Senate Republicans stated that they want to retry their efforts to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act in 2019. Despite their efforts to [...]
CMS Unveils New Initiative for Medicare User Experience
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid services (CMS) unveiled a new initiative to enhance the user experience for Medicare beneficiaries. The eMedicare initiative aims to give users a more personalized [...]
Health Groups Given $26.6M To Create Quality Measures
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid services issued a funding agreement under the Medicare Access and CHIP Reauthorization Act of 2015 to progress the current quality measures for the Quality [...]
Federal Judge Unsure of ACA Without the Tax Penalty
On Wednesday, U.S. District Judge Reed O'Connor stated his uncertainty on the validity of the individual mandate without holding a tax penalty for the mandate. In the 2017 tax overhaul, [...]
CMS Saved $314 Million from Medicare ACOs
Just after the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services proposed overhauling Accountable Care Organizations (ACOs), the CMS shared on Thursday that Medicare ACOs had made $1.1 billion from 2017 in [...]
GAO Released Report on 2018 Open Enrollment
The U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO) released a report on August 23, 2018 regarding the effect the Trump Administration has had on open enrollment via healthcare.gov for 2018. The Trump administration [...]
Health Insurance Premiums Will Go Up Slightly in Some States
Amidst the uncertainty of the direction that health insurance will go these days, health insurance premiums are only expected to increase slightly in some states. The Trump Administration has been [...]
ACO’s Aimed at Overhaul by Medicare
The accountable care organizations were developed initially as an effort put forth by the Affordable Care Act to cut down on costs, but in turn has yet to save anywhere [...]