Affordable Care Act
Virginia legislators yesterday voted to approve a budget bill that would expand access to Medicaid coverage to as many as 400,000 low-income residents.
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Sen. Susan M. Collins (R-ME) accepted the AHA Honorary Life Membership Award for her contributions to hospitals and health care in America. Collins, who chairs the Senate Special Committee on Aging and is a member of the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee, has鈥
An estimated 4 million adults aged 19-64 have lost health coverage since 2016.
The Department of Health and Human Services today issued final rules for the health insurance marketplaces for plan year 2019, as well as the 2019 Letter for issuers selling on the federally-facilitated exchanges.
Nearly 11.8 million people actively or automatically enrolled in a health plan through HealthCare.gov or a state-based exchange during open enrollment for 2018.
Utah Gov. Gary Herbert yesterday signed legislation amending the state Medicaid program to expand eligibility to certain low-income individuals.
A recent Idaho bulletin on requirements for state-based health plans in the individual market 鈥渕ay not be substantially enforcing provisions鈥 of the Affordable Care Act.
Twenty states this week asked a federal court to declare the Affordable Care Act unconstitutional because the recent Tax Cut and Jobs Act repealed the tax penalty enforcing the ACA's individual mandate.
Twenty states yesterday asked a federal court to declare the Affordable Care Act unconstitutional because the Tax Cut and Jobs Act repealed the tax penalty enforcing the ACA鈥檚 individual mandate.
The departments of Health and Human Services, Labor, and the Treasury today issued a proposed rule that would allow consumers to buy short-term health plans of up to 364-days duration, eliminating the current less-than-three-months limit on short-term plans.