By Joe Touschner HHS’s essential health benefits bulletin is less than two months old–in fact, the comment period just closed this week, click here for our comment letter–but some states are already planning for what it could mean for their residents. The Bulletin indicates that states will be able to choose the core of their […]
By Martha Heberlein As legislative sessions are kicking off, it will be interesting to see which states take steps towards implementing the Affordable Care Act (ACA) this year. A new report from the Urban Institute and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation shows that those states that have been moving most slowly on reform are also the […]
By Gretchen Hammer, Colorado Coalition for the Medically Underserved This month, All Kids Covered released Crossing the Finish Line: Achieving Meaningful Health Care Coverage and Access for All Children in Colorado. The report provides an update on the current status of meaningful health care coverage and access for children in Colorado, and describes the significant […]
By Joe Touschner It’s a busy month on the essential health benefits front! As we’ve noted, one option for states under the proposed approach for state-defined EHB packages is to use one of the state’s three largest small group plans as a benchmark. It’s been difficult to evaluate this proposal because we didn’t know which […]
By Joe Touschner We have been offering our insights on essential health benefits through a series of blog posts. This post is to alert you that Georgetown CCF has drafted a letter in response to the Bulletin issued by HHS in December. We raise a number of concerns with the Bulletin’s approach to essential health […]
Amid ongoing state budget pressures, a requirement in the Affordable Care Act (ACA) that states maintain eligibility in Medicaid and CHIP was central in preserving coverage during 2011. In addition, more than half of states (29) made improvements in their programs. Most of these improvements involved greater use of technology to boost program efficiency and […]
