The latest round of proposed Medicaid regulations has a number of helpful provisions but we couldn’t help be disappointed that the proposed rules allow states to continue to impose CHIP waiting periods on children who have recently been covered by group health insurance. Simply put…waiting periods make no sense in a post-ACA universe in which […]
By Jocelyn Guyer Over the holidays, while we were all relaxing with family and friends (or sneaking off for fiscal cliff updates), HHS issued an important “Dear State Medicaid Director” letter that will help to determine the income levels for children’s coverage under Medicaid and CHIP for at least the next six years. Not quite […]
By Sabrina Corlette, Center on Health Insurance Reforms The health insurance reform provisions of the Affordable Care Act were mostly left untouched under the recently passed budget agreement to avert the fiscal cliff, with one exception. The bill rescinds the remaining, unobligated funding in the Consumer Operated and Oriented Plan (CO-OP) program, ending new grants and loans […]
We are confident that Say Ahhh! readers received dozens of smartphone alerts and emails the past few days with minute-by-minute updates on the fiscal cliff deal making. Yet those alerts missed some important Medicaid- and CHIP-related provisions that rose to the top of our “Breaking News” list: Express Lane Eligibility option extended until September 30, […]
A new report from the Commonwealth Fund analyzes state trends in private employer-sponsored insurance from 2003 to 2011 for the under-65 population. Right now there is a lot of attention on the federal deficit and Medicare. What is not receiving a lot of attention is that the costs of private insurance spending per person have […]
By Joe Touschner In my last post on HHS’s proposed rules, I mentioned that, like the holidays, the comment deadline would be here before we knew it. Well here we are in the middle of the holiday season and the December 26 deadline is right around the corner. It’s likely not something that was on […]
