By JoAnn Volk, Center on Health Insurance Reforms To help make coverage more comprehensive, the Affordable Care Act (ACA) requires insurers to cover a minimum set of health insurance benefits, known as “essential health benefits.” Consumers are already benefitting from this new protection: beginning in 2010, the ACA prohibits insurers from imposing lifetime or annual […]
By Joe Touschner If your state is like a many others, you’ve likely been hearing or participating in active discussions around setting the essential health benefits for your state. (Check out this State Refor(u)m chart for a list of state activities and documents related to EHBs.). Every state, whether it will have a state-run or […]
By Joe Touschner This guide highlights considerations for the selection of the essential health benefits with a focus on services for children. The Department of Health and Human Services has determined that each state will select an essential health benefits package based on an existing employer-based health plan. The guide outlines the process for choosing and supplementing […]
The following is a resource list related essential health benefits.
By Joe Touschner If you’re a regular Say Ahhh! reader, you’ve seen a number of posts already on the ongoing process to define the essential health benefits. Most of those linked to additional supporting documents, like the Bulletin and FAQ released by HHS and the comparison of potential benchmark plans from Maine’s insurance department. And many more […]
By Joe Touschner Despite that title, our blog is not converting to the abbreviated language of texts and Twitter–I promise to type out the words in full when they’re needed. We’re also definitely not moving with Twitter speed in bringing you the news, but on February 17, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services released […]
