Access & Health Coverage
AHA and other healthcare related organizations stress the importance of congressional action to lower healthcare premiums.
Congressional proposals to appropriate $10 billion a year from 2019 to 2021 to extend cost sharing reductions and reinsurance for the individual health insurance market would expand health coverage to an additional 3.2 million people and lower premiums by at least 40%.
AHA yesterday urged the Department of Labor not to finalize a proposed rule that would allow employers, including sole proprietors, to form association health plans based on geography or industry.
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services has released its compliance review priorities for 2018 qualified health plans in the federally-facilitated exchanges.
The Department of Veterans Affairs has launched a pilot telehealth program that will give veterans with post-traumatic stress disorder remote access to psychotherapy and related services.
The AHA and seven other national organizations today urged Congress to include in the omnibus appropriations bill it must act on by March 23 bipartisan legislation they say would reduce premiums, improve affordability and improve the individual health insurance market.
Hospitals continue to have serious concerns that Anthem's coverage policies for outpatient imaging and emergency care services are detrimental to patients, diminishing access to care and driving care location based on the lowest cost provider, AHA and other hospitals groups told the insurer today.
AHA, others express concerns that Anthem’s coverage policies for outpatient imaging and emergency care services are detrimental to patients, diminishing access to care and driving care
location based on the lowest cost provider.
Sens. Bill Cassidy (R-LA), Michael Bennet (D-CO), Chuck Grassley (R-IA), Tom Carper (D-DE), Todd Young (R-IN) and Claire McCaskill (D-MO) are seeking guidance from health care stakeholders as they develop legislation to improve price transparency in the health care market and lower costs.