Access & Health Coverage
The House Ways and Means Committee has approved a number of bills intended to expand access to consumer-directed health plans and other health coverage.
Eligible individuals and entities, including hospitals, can apply through Aug. 9 for funding to operate as “navigators” in states with a federally-facilitated health insurance exchange in plan year 2019.
AHA provides comments on the consumer-directed health plan legislation being marked up in the Committee on Ways & Means.
More than 10.6 million individuals had paid their first month’s premium to officially trigger their 2018 health insurance coverage through the federal and state-based exchanges in February.
The AHA’s Health Research & Educational Trust is partnering with the Institute for Healthcare Improvement and the Catholic Health Association of the United States, with leadership and funding from the John A. Hartford Foundation, to create age-friendly health systems.
Comments to the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) on the fiscal year (FY) 2019 proposed rule for the inpatient psychiatric facilities (IPF) prospective payment system (PPS) and quality reporting updates.
The Department of Labor today released a final rule that modifies the definition of “employer” under federal law such that more individuals, including sole proprietors, are eligible to participate in association health plans based on geography or industry.
A bipartisan group of governors yesterday urged the administration to reverse its decision to no longer defend in federal court the Affordable Care Act’s protections for patients with pre-existing conditions.
The number of uninsured U.S. children declined by 2.2 million, or 38%, between 2013 and 2016, according to an analysis released last week by the University of Minnesota’s State Health Access Data Assistance Center.
U.S. health care providers could save $9.5 billion annually if commercial health plans fully adopted seven national standards for electronic business transactions, according to the latest annual CAQH Index.