On January 6, 2022, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) released a proposed rule regarding Contract Year 2023 Policy and Technical Changes to the Medicare Advantage and Medicare Prescription Drug Benefit...more
Over the past year, we saw significant developments in managed care regulation at the federal and state levels, and we anticipate the rapid pace of change to continue in 2021. In this webinar, attendees will hear an analysis...more
1/12/2021
/ Biden Administration ,
Drug Pricing ,
Health Care Providers ,
Health Insurance ,
Health Plan Sponsors ,
Managed Care Contracts ,
Medicare Advantage ,
Pharmaceutical Industry ,
Pharmacy Benefit Manager (PBM) ,
Physicians ,
Prescription Drugs ,
Price Transparency ,
Surprise Medical Bills ,
Webinars
A decision in Texas v. United States was issued by a divided three-judge panel of the US Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit on December 18, 2019. This case presented once again the question whether the Affordable Care Act...more
12/23/2019
/ Affordable Care Act ,
Appeals ,
Constitutional Challenges ,
Health Insurance ,
Healthcare Reform ,
Individual Mandate ,
Oral Argument ,
Severability Doctrine ,
Standing ,
Tax Cuts and Jobs Act ,
Tax Penalties ,
US v Texas
In an effort to stabilize the Exchanges and encourage issuer participation, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) recently extended the federal Exchange application and rate filing deadlines and published a...more
2/27/2017
/ Affordable Care Act ,
Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) ,
De Minimis Claims ,
Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) ,
Enrollment ,
Executive Orders ,
Filing Deadlines ,
Health Insurance ,
Healthcare Reform ,
Medicaid ,
Medicare ,
Open Enrollment ,
Proposed Rules ,
Qualified Health Plans ,
Trump Administration
In Depth -
A federal district court judge in Washington, DC ruled on May 12, 2016, that Congress did not appropriate funds for the Affordable Care Act’s (ACA) cost-sharing reduction (CSR) subsidies. See United States...more
On June 25, 2015, the Supreme Court of the United States ruled in King v. Burwell that the Affordable Care Act (ACA) requires premium tax credits to be made available in states that use a federal exchange. The case challenged...more
The Supreme Court of the United States is poised to decide a critical question under the Affordable Care Act: whether the federal government can subsidize health insurance premiums for residents of states that did not...more