Affordable Care Act, Medicaid Expansion, Healthcare

Emerging Opportunities for State-Based Marketplaces (SBMs)

Manatt, Phelps & Phillips, LLP on 4/23/2024

The Affordable Care Act (ACA) Marketplaces have nearly tripled their enrollment in their first decade of operation, from eight million people in 2014 to 21.4 million in 2024. At the national level, the ACA has helped cut the...more

North Carolina Expands Medicaid

Manatt, Phelps & Phillips, LLP on 10/3/2023

On December 1, 2023, North Carolina will become the 40th state to implement Medicaid expansion under the Affordable Care Act (ACA), extending Medicaid eligibility to more than 600,000 adults with incomes up to 138% of the...more

COVID-19: Resources for Oncology Providers (Medicaid, Grants, & Stark Law Waivers)

Foley & Lardner LLP on 4/16/2020

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS), the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), the Office for Civil Rights (OCR), the Office of the Inspector General (OIG), and other Federal and State agencies and...more

HHS Issues Advisory Opinion on PREP Act: Immunity May Extend Beyond Actual Covered Persons and Approved Countermeasures

Seyfarth Shaw LLP on 4/15/2020

With crisis comes uncertainty, and even the best-intentioned regulations can leave those combating the current COVID-19 public-health emergency out in the cold. Many have asked whether the recent Declaration under the...more

CMS Announces New Priorities for Facility Surveys and Inspections

Seyfarth Shaw LLP on 3/25/2020

In light of findings from the COVID-19 outbreak at a nursing home in Kirkland, Washington, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) has announced that it will suspend all routine facility inspections and surveys...more

Is the Affordable Care Act a House of Cards? If Yes, What Does the Recent Texas Court Decision Mean for the US Health Insurance...

Epstein Becker & Green on 12/19/2018

In an unexpectedly broad ruling issued December 14, 2018, the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Texas declared the Affordable Care Act (“ACA”) as unconstitutional in its entirety. This decision, if ultimately...more

Voters nationwide sent a powerful health care message. Will partisans heed it?

Patrick Malone & Associates P.C. | DC Injury... on 11/12/2018

Last week’s election leaves two questions lingering about health care: Will politicians really hear what voters said? And, what help might beleaguered patients now expect from their elected officials?...more

Health Care Weekly Preview from ML Strategies – November 2018

Mintz - Health Care Viewpoints on 11/7/2018

This week, we as stakeholders and political observers hit a tangible milestone with the midterms. How this Tuesday goes will mean a lot in the health care for the next two years, and carries the potential to drastically alter...more

Summer’s discontent: Evidence defies partisans on ACA, Medicaid expansion

Patrick Malone & Associates P.C. | DC Injury... on 7/10/2018

The evidence accumulates that partisans’ persistent attacks on the Affordable Care Act and Medicaid run counter to their constituents’ needs and wishes, but will Republicans course-correct or will voters soon force them to?...more

Virginia expands Medicaid coverage, as Obamacare foes lose another state

Patrick Malone & Associates P.C. | DC Injury... on 6/4/2018

Hundreds of thousands of poor, middle-class, old, sick, and young Virginians will get increased access to health care as the Commonwealth, joining 33 states and the District of Columbia, saw the crumbling of five years of...more

Manatt on Health Reform: Weekly Highlights - February 2017

Manatt, Phelps & Phillips, LLP on 2/8/2017

HealthCare.gov enrollment is down, while State-based Marketplace enrollment is up at the end of 2017 open enrollment; Hawaii, Massachusetts and Oregon introduce legislation to codify ACA reforms in state law in case of...more

Manatt on Medicaid: Monthly Expansion Recap - January 2017 #2

Manatt, Phelps & Phillips, LLP on 1/27/2017

National News and Reports - Governors Voice Support for Maintaining the Medicaid Expansion - Democratic Governors, joined by some of their Republican colleagues, are actively making the case to Congress for...more

Manatt on Health Reform: Weekly Highlights - January 2017 #2

Manatt, Phelps & Phillips, LLP on 1/19/2017

CBO estimates 27 million would lose coverage under partial ACA repeal in the first year after elimination of Marketplace subsidies and Medicaid expansion; a federal judge orders delay in submission of North Carolina’s...more

Manatt on Health Reform: Weekly Highlights - January 2017

Manatt, Phelps & Phillips, LLP on 1/11/2017

Physician groups and American Enterprise Institute authors come out against ACA repeal without a replacement; Hawaii’s 1332 waiver is the first to receive federal approval; and North Carolina’s Governor moves to expand...more

Repeal of ACA Medicaid Expansion: Critical Questions for States

Manatt, Phelps & Phillips, LLP on 12/15/2016

Much of the post-election debate over the potential repeal of the Affordable Care Act (ACA) has focused on the fate of the Marketplaces, the mandate, and popular insurance reforms such as the ban on preexisting conditions....more

Manatt on Health Reform: Weekly Highlights - December 2016 #2

Manatt, Phelps & Phillips, LLP on 12/14/2016

Congressional Republicans ask states for guidance on new healthcare legislation while insurers and providers urge caution; new reports find ACA repeal would increase uninsurance rates and cut billions of dollars in funding to...more

Manatt on Health Reform: Weekly Highlights - December 2016

Manatt, Phelps & Phillips, LLP on 12/7/2016

President-elect Trump taps prominent conservatives with strong anti-ACA views for his healthcare transition team; House v. Burwell proceedings on cost-sharing reductions for Marketplace plans are delayed until the new...more

Preparing for an ACA Rollback: How to Get Paid for Treating the Uninsured - Hospital Industry Viewpoint

Morgan Lewis on 11/10/2016

Given that Republicans will soon control both Congress and the White House, hospitals may be concerned that expenditures that have helped reduce the ranks of the uninsured will be ratcheted down. However, forward-thinking...more

Manatt on Medicaid: Monthly Expansion Recap - October 2016

Manatt, Phelps & Phillips, LLP on 10/27/2016

National News - Medicaid Expansion Is Associated With Improved Hospital Finances, Study Finds - Hospitals in Medicaid expansion states saw “significantly increased” Medicaid revenue, decreased uncompensated care...more

Manatt on Health Reform: Weekly Highlights - October 2016 #3

Manatt, Phelps & Phillips, LLP on 10/26/2016

HealthCare.gov consumers begin previewing 2017 coverage options as HHS projects a 9% enrollment increase over last year and an average 22% benchmark premium increase; Oregon study finds increased primary care spending in...more

Manatt on Health Reform: Weekly Highlights - November 2015

Manatt, Phelps & Phillips, LLP on 11/5/2015

Montana receives approval to expand Medicaid beginning 2016; California’s $6.2 billion Medicaid waiver receives pre-approval; and HHS proposes broadening circumstances under which states receive enhanced federal matching...more

Manatt on Medicaid: Medicaid at 50—The Program’s Evolution and Future

Manatt, Phelps & Phillips, LLP on 10/27/2015

Editor’s note: Born as an afterthought to Medicare five decades ago, Medicaid has evolved from an adjunct to state welfare programs into the nation’s largest health insurer. Medicaid’s 50th birthday is a fitting time to...more

Manatt on Health Reform: Weekly Highlights - October 2015 #3

Manatt, Phelps & Phillips, LLP on 10/21/2015

Arizona seeks Medicaid Waiver to implement new coverage restrictions for Medicaid expansion enrollees and delivery system reform; Tennessee’s uninsured rate continues to drop; and Louisiana gubernatorial candidates line up...more

Washington Healthcare Update

McGuireWoods LLP on 10/20/2015

Bicameral Bill Introduced to Provide HHS Authority to Reject Proposed Insurance Rates - Before Congress left for its Columbus Day recess, Rep. Jan Schakowsky (D-IL) and Sen. Diane Feinstein (D-CA) introduced the Health...more

Health Care Update - October 2015

Mintz - ML Strategies on 10/20/2015

Cuts in Mandatory Entitlement Programs Center of Budget Negotiations: As budget negotiators from both sides of the Hill come together to work out a two-year budget deal, determining how sequestration relief will be paid for...more

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