This brief gives a summary of HHS final rules on reinsurance, risk corridors, and risk adjustment from Wakely Consulting Group. The brief also provides a summary on how the final rules differ from the July 2011 proposed rules.
This issue brief from The Commonwealth Fund estimates the rebates expected in each state if the new medical loss ratio (MLR) rules had been in effect a year earlier. According to the report, consumers would have received about $2 billion in rebates if health care reform’s new MLR requirements had been in effect in 2010.
Maryland's Health Benefit Exchange has created a high level timeline to prepare the state's Level II exchange funding grant application. The deadline to apply is June 30, 2012.
The North Carolina Health Benefit Exchange workgroup created a subcommittee to consider education and outreach efforts; training for nonprofits and other groups who can refer individuals to appropriate assistance; navigator training, certification, compensation and accountability; the role of agents and brokers; and how to create the “no wrong door” eligibility and enrollment process. This report gives draft recommendations from the subcommittee to the full committee.
The Department of Vermont Health Access released the results of a statewide telephone survey conducted between March 17-25, 2012, to solicit views on the state's forthcoming health insurance exchange. The survey results will be used to plan the state's navigator program and marketing campaign for the exchange.
This report examines the decline in state revenues and changes in Medicaid spending during the last two recessions to look more closely at what has been driving state budget deficits.
Governors' Budgets for FY 2013 -- What is Proposed for Medicaid?
This report provides Medicaid highlights from governors’ proposed state budgets for FY 2013, which starts July 1, 2012 for most states.
These are the fourth and fifth state-specific reports in a series of 10 from the Urban Institute to track and monitor the implementation process and effects of the ACA. These reports look at the progress underway in Colorado and New York.
With the help of six national health care experts, the Blue Cross Blue Shield of Massachusetts Foundation's 2011 annual report explores how to tame rising health care costs. The Foundation asked Governor Deval Patrick, Don Berwick, Deborah Enos, Jeff Levin-Scherz, Rick Lord, and Kate Walsh to talk with each other about the most promising solutions.
This report addresses the potential of integrated delivery systems and effective state policy options to encourage changes in delivery systems.