Unreasonable Standards Will Likely Discourage Hospitals from Doing Presumptive Eligibility

I’ve written several Say Ahhh! blogs on the Affordable Care Act’s new hospital presumptive eligibility provisions. The ACA explicitly gives hospitals the prerogative to make Medicaid presumptive eligibility (PE) decisions, regardless of whether the state has previously implemented the policy option. In particular, presumptive eligibility provides a great opportunity for hospitals to connect uninsured kids […]

Tricia Brooks

New Report Looks at Factors Leading to Medical Debt Among People with Insurance

Today, the Kaiser Family Foundation—in collaboration with Kevin Lucia  and Katie Keith of CHIR—released a new report exploring factors leading to medical debt among people with insurance.  The report identifies common causes and consequences of medical debt, and discusses the triggers of medical debt that will and won’t be affected by the Affordable Care Act. It finds that health […]

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2014 is Finally Here! Let the Coverage Begin …

I was excited to come to work today – the first business day of full implementation of the Affordable Care Act. It has been many decades in the making – but the concept that all Americans should have access to affordable health insurance is finally the law of the land. And anti-consumer practices, used by […]

Joan Alker

Many Southern States Miss Opportunity to Address Health Disparities

By Tara Mancini A new report from the Kaiser Commission on Medicaid and the Uninsured (KCMU) indicates that a little more than half (53%) of uninsured people of color have family income at or below 138% and therefore should qualify for Medicaid in 2014 as the ACA originally intended. Yet, almost a third (30%) of […]

CCF Partners with Urban Institute and Packard on New Health Reform Survey

By Martha Heberlein Today, Health Affairs released a paper detailing a new (and in our opinion a very exciting!) survey – the Health Reform Monitoring Survey (HRMS) – designed by the Urban Institute. This internet-based survey is intended to provide rapid-cycle feedback on changes under the ACA. The goal is to replicate key outcome measures […]

Pennsylvania’s Medicaid Waiver Proposal Does Not Impress

  Last Friday, Governor Corbett’s Administration released it’s Section 1115 waiver application draft. This initiates the process for the required 30-day state comment period that must precede the submission of the waiver request to the federal government. The state will be holding a series of public hearings and webinars with the final hearing in Harrisburg […]

Joan Alker
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