Affordable Care Act, Children's Health Insurance Program (CHIP), Health Insurance

CMS Finalizes Major Reforms to Medicaid, Part 2: Medicaid Managed Care Reg

McDermott+ on 5/3/2024

Medicaid Regs Part 2! Last week, Regs & Eggs took a deep dive into the Ensuring Access to Medicaid Services final reg, one of two regs that the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) released to add new requirements...more

Massachusetts’ Cutting-Edge Health Equity Initiatives

Manatt, Phelps & Phillips, LLP on 9/20/2023

Editor’s Note: In a recent "State Spotlight" for The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, reprinted below, Manatt Health discusses the investments and efforts that the Commonwealth of Massachusetts is making to promote health...more

Prenatal Vaccines in Medicaid and CHIP: Coverage, Reimbursement, and State Policy Solutions to Increase Access

Manatt, Phelps & Phillips, LLP on 5/17/2023

Prenatal vaccines—those administered during a pregnancy—provide crucial protections to pregnant women and/or newborns against communicable diseases such as whooping cough and influenza. Additional prenatal vaccines are in...more

HHS Proposes Rule Strengthening Section 1557 Protections Against Nondiscrimination in Health Activities

BakerHostetler on 8/8/2022

On Aug. 4, the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) published its proposed rule, Nondiscrimination in Health Care and Activities (Proposed Rule), to revise its regulations pertaining to Section 1557 of the...more

Supporting Health Equity and Affordable Health Coverage for Immigrant Populations: State-Funded Affordable Coverage Programs for...

Manatt, Phelps & Phillips, LLP on 10/21/2021

The crisis in immigrant health coverage has been both highlighted and exacerbated by the recent pandemic. COVID-19 has taken a heavy toll on immigrants, who are disproportionately frontline/service workers, making them...more

Why are Medicaid and CHIP enrollment numbers declining?

Foley Hoag LLP - Medicaid and the Law on 11/5/2019

For much of the past two years, enrollment in the Medicaid and CHIP programs has been declining. In May, 2017, enrollment in both programs was 74.6 million people. As of May of this year, enrollment had declined by 2.5%, to...more

2019 ERISA Welfare Plan Checklist

Bass, Berry & Sims PLC on 10/9/2019

We recognize that many of our clients sponsor ERISA welfare benefit plans and are currently undergoing their open enrollment process and issuing related participant communications. To assist our clients with that process, we...more

With GOP still tearing at ACA, uninsured rate rises for first time in decade

Patrick Malone & Associates P.C. | DC Injury... on 9/18/2019

The Grand Old Party may have just won the dictionary definition of a Pyrrhic Victory. That’s because Republicans’ decade-long assault on the Affordable Care Act his finally showing predictable results, with the share of...more

Cost of medical billing soars to half a trillion dollars—and half may be wasted

Patrick Malone & Associates P.C. | DC Injury... on 4/17/2019

When patients battle with the desperate extremes of a disease like a fast-spreading cancer, it isn’t just the radiation and chemo therapies that sap their spirits, there’s a demoralizing runner-up concern: The constant...more

Expansion of Medicaid Eligibility for Undocumented Young Adults

Brownstein Hyatt Farber Schreck on 3/1/2019

In recent weeks, the states of California and Washington, and New York City have proposed expanding Medicaid eligibility for undocumented young adults. Given Medicaid’s combination of state and federal funding, House and...more

Virginia, Maryland, and kids bear early brunt of partisan health care attacks

Patrick Malone & Associates P.C. | DC Injury... on 5/18/2018

As the nation churns toward the midterm elections, the Trump Administration has sent stark messages to voters about how they may wish to respond to Republicans’ unceasing attacks on health care and health insurance for the...more

Health Care Policy Newsletter

Foley & Lardner LLP on 5/14/2018

Foley & Lardner LLP’s (“Foley”) Bipartisan Public Policy Team is pleased to share our second “Public Policy Weekly* Health Care Newsletter” in which we compile the latest health care policy news and legislation. Please...more

Trump Administration Fiscal Year (FY) 2019 Budget and Healthcare Programs

Holland & Knight LLP on 2/19/2018

The Trump Administration on Feb. 12 released its Fiscal Year (FY) 2019 budget request, titled "An American Budget." Unlike last year's budget, which was released in late May, the release of this budget conforms to the typical...more

Bipartisan Budget Act of 2018 Enacts Changes to Employee Retirement and Health Benefit Plans, and Medicare

Ballard Spahr LLP on 2/19/2018

Following a brief shutdown of the federal government, on February 9, Congress passed and President Donald J. Trump signed into law the Bipartisan Budget Act of 2018 (Budget Act), which provides Congress until March 23 to...more

Bipartisan Budget Act of 2018: Major Impacts on Health Care

Baker Donelson on 2/12/2018

After a brief federal government shutdown overnight, Congress passed and the President signed into law the Bipartisan Budget Act of 2018 on February 9, 2018. The Senate voted 71-28 and the House voted 240-186 to approve the...more

House, Senate Proposals to Extend Funding for the Federal Government

Holland & Knight LLP on 2/9/2018

Congress moved one step closer to avoiding a government shutdown on Feb. 6, voting overwhelmingly (245-182) to pass a short-term, GOP-backed government funding bill (text; section-by-section) that would keep the federal...more

As Congress Struggles With ACA Repeal, Trump Administration Moves Forward With Regulatory Reform

Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP on 1/31/2018

The Trump administration and Republican-led Congress spent substantial time and political capital in 2017 on efforts to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act (ACA) and enact sweeping Medicaid reform. By the end of the...more

2018 Budget Deal Delays Several Affordable Care Act Taxes and Fees

Burr & Forman on 1/30/2018

On January 22, 2018, President Trump signed into law H.R. 195 (hereinafter referred to as the “2018 Budget Deal”) which ended the federal government shutdown and funds the federal government through February 8, 2018. In...more

Politicians toss a CHIP at poor but ignore big woes like soaring medical costs

Patrick Malone & Associates P.C. | DC Injury... on 1/29/2018

Let’s give the faintest cheer — maybe of the Bronx variety — to the Republican-controlled Congress for, finally, reauthorizing the Children’s Health Insurance Program, aka CHIP....more

Congress Delays the “Cadillac Tax” and Other ACA-Related Taxes and Fees

Proskauer - Employee Benefits & Executive... on 1/26/2018

On January 22, 2018 Congress passed (and the President signed) the Federal Register Printing Savings Act (the “Act”), which temporarily (until February 8, 2018) continued funding federal government activity and appropriates...more

Stopgap Funding Bill Contains Surprises

Kilpatrick on 1/24/2018

The stopgap funding bill passed by Congress and signed by President Trump yesterday keeps the government open for another three weeks. It also funds the Children’s Health Insurance Program (“CHIP”) for the next six years....more

Budget Deal Addresses Health Benefit Issues

Ballard Spahr LLP on 1/24/2018

The Congressional agreement that reopened the federal government for three weeks quietly addressed—at least temporarily—several high-profile issues affecting public and private health benefits. ...more

Continuing Resolution Proposal to Extend Funding for the Federal Government

Holland & Knight LLP on 1/22/2018

Overview - On Jan. 16, Chairman of the House Appropriations Committee Chairman Rodney Frelinghuysen (R-N.J.) introduced a continuing resolution (CR), which would fund the federal government until Feb. 16. Congress has...more

New Tax Overhaul and Government Funding Measures: What's in It for Health Care?

Baker Donelson on 1/18/2018

In the week before Christmas, Congress approved and President Trump signed into law the final Republican tax overhaul bill. While primarily focused on individual and business tax cuts and reform, the new tax bill taking...more

Trump Administration: 2017 Recap and 2018 Outlook

Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP on 1/17/2018

On January 20, 2017, businessman Donald J. Trump was sworn in as the 45th President of the United States following a contentious and unconventional 2016 presidential election. Republicans also successfully maintained control...more

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