Tag: ACA
2021 White Paper – “Looking Toward the Future: Health Policy Priorities and Actions in the First Year of the Biden Administration”
Health Policy News is pleased to share our annual fall white paper, “Looking Toward the Future: Health Policy Priorities and Actions in the First Year of the Biden Administration,” in ...
The Federal Administration Issues More Guidance on the No Surprises Act
Implementation of the No Surprises Act (NSA) continued this fall with the release of a second interim final rule (IFR) on September 30, 2021. The NSA—which was signed into law ...
CMS Foreshadows Policy Areas for Future Rulemaking
As we noted in the recent recent Health Policy News overview of the second Final Notice of Benefit and Payment Parameters (NBPP) for 2022, the process of finalizing Exchange guidance ...
American Rescue Plan has Broad Impact on Health Policy
The American Rescue Plan Act of 2021 (the Act) was signed into law on March 11, 2021. This sweeping law provides funding to address the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic ...
CMS Finalized Exchange Guidance for 2022
Update: In February, CMS finalized timelines for certification and rate filings of Qualified Health Plans that will be offered in Marketplaces in 2022. The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services ...
First-of-Its-Kind Tennessee Block Grant Approved by CMS
On January 8th, 2021, the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) announced the approval of Tennessee’s final Medicaid Block grant proposal[1] which the state had originally submitted in 2019. ...
Reflections on 2020 and Predictions for 2021
Continued Responses to COVID-19 State and Federal Responses to COVID-19 in 2020 and Expectations for 2021 At the start of 2020, COVID-19 was a peripheral thought for most people in ...
CMS Releases Exchange Guidance for 2022
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) released the first draft of its annual Exchange guidance at the end of November: the proposed Notice of Benefit and Payment Parameters ...
Health Policy News – November 2020
This month, two major events at the federal level took place that will have lasting impacts on health policy. First, of course, was the election. Then, just a week later, ...
Regulatory Roundup
Final Medicaid Managed Care Rule, Transparency Requirements for Commercial Insurance Carriers and two Georgia Waiver Approvals Announced Over the past few weeks, two anticipated final rules were released by the ...