Affordable Care Act, Healthcare Reform, Essential Health Benefits

New York’s 1332 Waiver Extends Affordable Coverage to Additional Groups

Manatt, Phelps & Phillips, LLP on 5/2/2024

On March 1, the Departments of Health and Human Services (HHS) and the Treasury approved New York’s section 1332 waiver that expands affordable coverage to additional groups of New Yorkers. The waiver essentially suspends New...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

Triage: Updates to Mental Health Parity in California and Nationwide

K&L Gates LLP on 9/29/2020

In this week’s episode, Carla DewBerry and Kelsey Jernigan discuss issues in mental health parity in the context of recent California legislation. In particular, the presenters discuss how a new California bill has sparked a...more

Colorado Hospitals and the Proposed Public Option: A Looming Challenge

Polsinelli on 11/27/2019

The Affordable Care Act (ACA) removed pre-existing condition barriers, defined a broad range of essential health benefits, and improved access to coverage and care for millions of people nationwide. However, the ACA has thus...more

Alexander, Murray Announce Bipartisan Proposal on Market Stabilization

Baker Donelson on 10/23/2017

On October 17, the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee Chair Lamar Alexander (R-TN) and Ranking Member Patty Murray (D-WA) announced they had agreed on a proposal for a narrow, short-term individual market...more

Updated Health Care Reform Legislation Comparison Chart

Proskauer - Employee Benefits & Executive... on 7/15/2017

The chart below compares key provisions of the Affordable Care Act (ACA), the American Health Care Act (AHCA) and the Better Care Reconciliation Act (BCRA). This chart is current as of July 13, 2017, and as of that date,...more

Employment Flash - June 2017

Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP on 6/29/2017

This edition examines recent labor and employment developments at the U.S. federal, state and local levels, including the House of Representatives' American Health Care Act and the Senate's Better Care Reconciliation Act, the...more

Senate Releases Repeal and Replace Legislation on ACA: The Better Care Reconciliation Act of 2017

Foley & Lardner LLP on 6/28/2017

After weeks of secrecy, the Senate has released a discussion draft of legislation that is the counterpart of the American Health Care Act (AHCA) previously passed by the House. The Senate legislation, entitled the Better Care...more

Senate Republican Health Care Working Group Releases Health Care Reform Bill Text

Baker Donelson on 6/27/2017

On June 22, Senate Republicans released a discussion draft of the Better Care Reconciliation Act (BCRA), their companion bill to the House-passed American Health Care Act (AHCA). The legislation, which reforms the Affordable...more

CBO/JCT/CMS Release Analyses of House-Passed AHCA; Senate Timeline Remains Unclear

Baker Donelson on 6/22/2017

On May 24, the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) and Joint Committee on Taxation (JCT) released much-anticipated analysis of the House-passed American Health Care Act (AHCA). Overall, CBO projected that the AHCA would reduce...more

The American Health Care Act Moves Forward: What Employers Need to Know About the House-Passed Bill

Alston & Bird on 6/8/2017

Stage two of repealing and replacing the Affordable Care Act (ACA) is now underway as focus shifts to the Senate, where significant changes are expected to be made to the American Health Care Act (AHCA) as passed by the...more

CBO Releases Updated Cost Estimate of American Health Care Act of 2017

Proskauer - Employee Benefits & Executive... on 5/30/2017

On May 24, 2017, the Congressional Budget Office (“CBO”) and the staff of the Joint Committee on Taxation (“JCT”) released a cost estimate for H.R. 1628, known as the American Health Care Act of 2017 (the “AHCA”). The CBO and...more

Health Update - March 2017

Manatt, Phelps & Phillips, LLP on 3/24/2017

The Future of Essential Health Benefits - Editor's Note: The Essential Health Benefits (EHB) rule may be among the many parts of the Affordable Care Act (ACA) that are on the chopping block as the Trump Administration and...more

Draft GOP Affordable Care Act (ACA) Repeal and Replacement Leaked

King & Spalding on 3/9/2017

On Friday, February 24, 2017, Politico released details of a leaked draft House GOP “repeal and replace” bill (Draft) aimed at dismantling key provisions of the ACA, including Medicaid expansion, the individual mandate,...more

Manatt on Health Reform: Weekly Highlights - February 2017 #3

Manatt, Phelps & Phillips, LLP on 2/23/2017

Congress moves forward on key healthcare appointments; the Administration takes steps to shore up the Marketplaces; and Governors prepare to gather in Washington as new reports document the ACA's impacts on states....more

Manatt on 1332: Hawaii Posts Nation's First State Innovation Waiver Proposal

Manatt, Phelps & Phillips, LLP on 9/28/2015

Overview - On September 9 Hawaii became the first state to post a draft 1332 waiver proposal for public comment. While Hawaii's waiver proposal is focused on the state's unique 40-year-old employer mandate, the 40-page...more

Manatt on Health Reform: Weekly Highlights - September 2015

Manatt, Phelps & Phillips, LLP on 9/4/2015

CMS permits states to use income information from other means-tested benefit programs for Medicaid eligibility determinations; Alaska’s Medicaid expansion is given the green light to launch today; and Washington State submits...more

HHS Broadens Federal Controls Over Private Health Insurance Benefits and Operations

Epstein Becker & Green on 12/8/2014

On November 21, 2014, the Obama administration released two proposed rules affecting health insurance issuers’ offering of private health insurance products both inside and outside of the public insurance exchanges...more

The Affordable Care Act—Countdown to Compliance for Employers, Week 15: Can a Plan That Fails to Cover Inpatient Hospitalization...

Mintz - Employment, Labor & Benefits... on 9/17/2014

A recent Washington Post article (“Glitch in health care law allows employers to offer substandard insurance,” September 12, 2014) highlights an Affordable Care Act compliance strategy being marketed heavily (and adopted...more

Final Mental Health Parity Rules Released

Mintz - Health Care Viewpoints on 11/12/2013

The Departments of Health and Human Services, Labor, and the Treasury jointly issued a long-awaited final rule that implements the Paul Wellstone and Pete Domenici Mental Health Parity and Addiction Equity Act of 2008...more

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