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States reported declines in Medicaid enrollment and modest growth in total Medicaid spending for fiscal year 2019.
An estimated 27.5 million U.S. residents (8.5%) lacked health insurance at some point in 2018, up from 25.6 million (7.9%) in 2017, the Census Bureau reported today.
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services has awarded 34 organizations grants to help consumers shop for and enroll in health coverage as navigators in states with federally-facilitated health insurance exchanges.
Beginning with open enrollment for plan year 2020, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services will require all health insurance exchanges to display its star rating for each qualified health plan.
AHA, health organizations urge Congress to take prompt action to lower health insurance premiums.
Hospitals and other eligible organizations and individuals may apply until July 22 for a portion of $10 million in 2019 funding for navigators to help individuals enroll in health coverage through the federally-facilitated exchange, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services announced…
AHA applauds the U.S. House of Representatives for considering the Strengthening
Health Care and Lowering Prescription Drug Costs Act.
The AHA supports the administration’s goal of expanding access to coverage and increasing competition between health plans, but does not believe that efforts to facilitate the sale of insurance across state lines “will achieve either of those goals in a meaningful way,” the association said today,…
Statement
of the
American Hospital Association
for the
Committee on Rules
of the
U.S. House of Representatives
“Medicare for All Act of 2019”
April 30, 2019
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) April 18 issued a final rule implementing the standards governing health plan issuers and the Health Insurance Marketplaces for 2020.