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The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services seeks input as it designs a pilot to evaluate the impact of verifying a consumer’s eligibility for a special enrollment period before they enroll. The agency intends to launch the pilot after 2017 open enrollment to assess how pre-enrollment…
Enrollment in private health insurance plans remained concentrated among a small number of issuers in most states in 2014, according to a report released yesterday by the Government Accountability Office. The report looks at concentration in the individual, small group and large group markets…
An estimated 27.3 million U.S. residents lacked health insurance when surveyed in the first three months of 2016, 1.3 million fewer than in 2015, according to a report released today by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The proportion of residents who were uninsured when…
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services yesterday awarded $63 million in grants to support “navigators” to help consumers enroll in coverage through the federally-facilitated Health Insurance Marketplace for a 12-month period beginning Sept. 2. The grants went to 98…
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services should delay implementing the site-neutral provisions of the Bipartisan Budget Act of 2015 until it can provide fair and equitable payment to hospitals for nonexcepted services, AHA told the agency today, commenting on the hospital outpatient…
The AHA supports a number of proposals in the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services’ physician fee schedule proposed rule for calendar year 2017 that would expand Medicare beneficiaries’ access to critically-needed services, the association told the agency in comments …
The AHA last week expressed support for The Sustaining Healthcare Integrity and Fair Treatment Act (H.R. 5713), which would extend 25% Rule relief to long-term care hospital discharges between Oct. 1, 2016 and June 30, 2017.
The AHA last week expressed support for the Independence at Home Act (S. 3130), which would make permanent a Medicare demonstration program that provides primary care to patients at home.
The AHA last week urged the Illinois Supreme Court to reverse an appellate court decision that rejected as unconstitutional the state’s property tax exemption standard for hospitals. “Upholding the appellate court’s decision – and thereby endorsing the unsound principle on…
The Department of Health and Human Services today published an interim final rule that adjusts for inflation the maximum civil monetary penalties that HHS agencies are authorized to assess or enforce under 2015 amendments to the Federal Civil Penalties Inflation Adjustment Act. The rule…