Feds Extend Deadline for State Exchanges Again
On Thursday, Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius extended the deadline to December 14 for states to submit letters of intent to build state-based health insurance exchanges. The...
View ArticleNo Enhanced Federal Funds For Partial Medicaid Expansion
Last week, 11 governors – including those in Ohio, Arizona, Louisiana, Florida, Virginia, Iowa, Maine, Mississippi, South Dakota, Utah, and Wyoming - submitted a letter to Health and Human Services...
View ArticleHealth Care Reform Pay or Play Penalties for Employers
In this Labor and Employment Alert, Vorys attorneys discuss proposed federal regulations regarding health care reform pay or play penalties that will impact applicable large employers. If you are an...
View ArticleArkansas Proposes Coverage Definition of Habilitative Services
Despite states’ struggles to define coverage of services under the habilitative services category of Essential Health Benefits as required by the Affordable Care Act (ACA), Arkansas recently proposed a...
View ArticleOhio Chooses to Expand Medicaid Coverage
On Monday, February 4th, Governor John Kasich proposed that Ohio will expand Medicaid benefits to individuals earning up to 138% of the federal poverty level (FPL) (about $15,800 for an individual and...
View ArticleHPIO Resources on Medicaid Expansion in Ohio
The Health Policy Institute of Ohio (HPIO) has recently added to its collection of Medicaid resources a brief focused on projected new employment and new local general sales tax revenues due to...
View ArticleCMS Addresses DSH Cuts; Impact on States That Do Not Expand Medicaid Remains...
Earlier this week, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) released a proposed rule that cuts federal payments to hospitals for uncompensated care. What still remains unclear, however,...
View ArticleThe Final Push for Health Care Reform
Over the course of the next several weeks, we will explore a new reality – that we are now less than100 days from the largest and arguably most historic health insurance open enrollment period in...
View ArticleEmployer Requirement to Offer Health Insurance Delayed
The Obama administration announced yesterday that it will delay by one year the Affordable Care Act requirement that employers with 50 or more employees offer health insurance to their employees or...
View ArticleOvercoming A Hurdle: Consumer Understanding Of What The Affordable Care Act...
Despite the recent announcement that the requirement for employers to offer health insurance to their employees has been delayed, the federal and state governments are ramping up for the largest open...
View ArticleWhat is the individual mandate?
In order to demystify the Affordable Care Act (ACA) so that consumers can get the most out of it, we should start with the provision most immediately impactful to many Americans – the individual...
View ArticleOut of Pocket Maximums and the 2014 Transition Year
Beginning in 2014, the Affordable Care Act (ACA) will set maximum limits on how much consumers can be required to pay out-of-pocket annually for their health care. Under the law, the maximum amount a...
View ArticleHealth Insurance Options in 2014
In a recent post, we discussed the insurance mandate itself. That is, the requirement that most people have health insurance beginning in 2014 or face a financial penalty. We also briefly mentioned...
View ArticleEssential Health Benefits: What are they and who decides?
As we have discussed in previous posts, beginning in 2014, under the Affordable Care Act (ACA), Medicaid plans and small group and individual plans sold inside and outside of the Health Insurance...
View ArticleResources Help Illustrate Actual Marketplace Subsidy and Premium Amounts
This Washington Post blog post does a nice job of demystifying subsidy amounts that will be available to individuals who purchase health insurance in the Marketplace (formarly known as the Exchange),...
View ArticleSneak Peek at Premiums in the Health Insurance Marketplaces
A recent Avalere Health study offers individuals and employers a sneak peek at what the cost of premiums will be once open enrollment for the health insurance marketplaces begins on October 1, 2013....
View ArticlePhysician Payment Sunshine Act Sheds Light on Payments Made to Doctors
A little-discussed provision of the Affordable Care Act is making physicians, hospitals and manufacturers in the health care industry reconsider how they do business. The Physician Payment Sunshine...
View Article900,000 Ohioans to Have Access to Financial Help to Buy Insurance in Marketplace
This Cleveland Plain Dealer article discusses the impending open enrollment of the Ohio health insurance marketplace and the subsidies that will be available to many individuals purchasing health...
View ArticleMore Premium Information for Health Insurance Marketplace Plans Released
The federal government recently released a report detailing premium information for qualified health plans to be sold in those 36 states (including Ohio) in which the U. S. Department of Health and...
View ArticleThe Governor’s Big Play: Pushing Ahead on Medicaid Expansion
By Sylvia Brown and Former State Senate President Tom Niehaus Anticipation is building as the battle over Medicaid expansion moves to the unlikely arena of the state Controlling Board. On Monday,...
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