Affordable Care Act
Open enrollment in the Health Insurance Marketplace has begun and hospitals are geared up to continue the important work of making the enrollment process easy, accessible and widely available. Now through the end of open enrollment on January 31, 2016, hospitals will host health fairs and…
As we prepare for the U.S. Supreme Court to issue its decision in King v. Burwell in the coming weeks, the AHA is working to ensure that we provide the hospital field with relevant and timely information.
This brief begins by providing essential background information and describes the regulatory framework through which federal and state policymakers exercise oversight of hospital community benefits. Next, it describes current hospital-reported programs and initiatives that target specific social…
In letters to the AHA and the Catholic Health Association of the U.S., Secretary Kathleen Sebelius confirmed that payments from private, not-for-profit foundations to qualified health plans (QHPs) on behalf of individuals who enroll in coverage via the Health Insurance Marketplaces are not…
AHA urges the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) to issue an Interim Final Rule (IFR) with comment period requiring that qualified health plans (QHPs) offered through the Health Insurance Marketplaces accept third-party premium and cost-sharing payments from hospitals, hospital-…
We are aware of the guidance the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services issued in its February 7, 2014 Q&A clarifying that it was not discouraging such subsidies from charitable foundations. Unfortunately, the Interim Final Rule issued on March 14 has created uncertainty regarding HHS’s…
This infographic shows what 40-year-old Americans would pay for a second-lowest-cost silver exchange plan at three income levels.
The AHA supports several aspects of CMS’s proposed framework and measures list for the QRS. However, we are concerned that the measures list seems more like a list of available and potentially implementable measures, rather than a list chosen to advance underlying strategic priorities.