Enrollment Guide: A Few Tips To Help You Shop For A New Marketplace Plan
(By – Mary Agnes Carey, Kaiser Health News) Open enrollment for the health law’s 2016 marketplace plans begins Sunday, and federal officials
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Marketplace Customers Could See Higher Premiums, No Coverage For Out-Of-Network Care
(By – Michelle Andrews, Kaiser health news) When the health insurance marketplaces open on Sunday, consumers shopping for 2016 coverage
Read MorePremiums For Key Marketplace Silver Plans Rising An Average Of 7.5 Percent, HHS Says
(By – Mary Agnes Carey and Jordan Rau, Kaiser health News) Premiums will increase an average of 7.5 percent for the second-lowest-cost silver
Read MoreThe Affordable Care Act Drove Record Annual Increases in Enrollment and Total Medicaid Spending Nationally in FY 2015, As Newly Eligible Adults gained Coverage in Expansion States
(Source – Kaiser Family Foundation) The Affordable Care Act’s Medicaid expansion resulted in record increases in Medicaid enrollment and spending
Read MoreNew Estimates of Eligibility for ACA Coverage among the Uninsured
(Source – Kaiser Family Foundation) The Affordable Care Act (ACA) extends health insurance coverage to people who lack access to
Read MoreNearly Half of the Uninsured, or 15.7 Million People, Are Eligible for Medicaid or Subsidized Affordable Care Act Coverage, Analysis Finds
(Source – Kaiser Family Foundation) Weeks away from the Affordable Care Act’s third open enrollment period, a new Kaiser Family
Read MoreKeiser Health News Poll Results – End-of-life Counseling and other issues
The results of a Kaiser Health Tracking Poll released 9/30 show that doctor-patient end-of-life talks are favored overwhelmingly by Medicare participants. Likewise, poll results
Read MoreMedicare Shared Savings Program Update
Year 2 results of the MSSP program announced by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (MCS) showed some indications
Read MoreNearly 9 Million People Gained Insurance In Health Marketplace’s First Year
(By – Julie Rovner, khn.org) The percentage of Americans without health insurance dropped by nearly three percentage points between 2013 and 2014,
Read MoreMore dialog on validity of ACA hospital readmission penalties
This week’s JAMA Internal Medicine article on hospital readmission penalties–$420 million this year–mandated by the Affordable Care Act is highlighted
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