Affordability
Last month, the Urban Institute released a report detailing uninsurance rates between 2019 and 2022 for families with young children (under age 3). The report revealed significant drops—for the children, for fathers, and most significantly, for mothers. There were multiple factors contributing to these rises in coverage rates—pandemic-era continuous enrollment policies such as the Families […]
As a nonprofit health attorney over a decade ago I worked in North Carolina on pushing hospital systems to eliminate the practice of suing lower income patients for medical debt and associated abuses like pursuing liens against the houses of poor families. A Pulitzer-prize nominated newspaper series detailed the situation at the time in North […]
The Centers for Medicare & medicaid Services (CMS) recently released new Medicaid managed care regulations that update CMS policy on State Directed Payments (SDP). In this blog we’ll cover what SDPs are, how they can be used to improve access to care, and some changes in how CMS will allow and regulate them. You can […]
On November 8, 2023, on an unanimous 26-0 vote, the Senate Finance Committee approved the Better Mental Health Care, Lower-Cost Drugs, and Extenders Act. The bill includes a number of Medicare and Medicaid provisions but also incorporates two sound Medicaid drug pricing provisions related to “spread pricing” in Medicaid managed care and to Medicaid pharmacy […]
By Georgetown University McCourt School of Public Policy Center on Health Insurance Reforms The U.S. House of Representatives Education & Workforce Committee is poised to advance a bill, H.R. 2813, that would encourage the expansion of self-funded employer-based insurance exempt from key Affordable Care Act (ACA) protections and preempt states’ efforts to stabilize premiums for small […]
Parents’ lack of health insurance coverage and access to health services can reduce children’s access to care and harm their families’ broader financial health. This is why the Urban Institute’s new report on coverage, access, overall health, and ability to meet family financial needs among parents at different income levels after the first year of […]
