The Republican Study Committee (RSC), of which most House Republicans are members, unveiled its budget proposal for fiscal year 2025 this week. The budget doubles down on the decade-and-a-half long campaign to repeal the Affordable Care Act (ACA) in addition to ending Medicare drug price negotiations, implementing block grants for...Arizona News
Last Wednesday, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) finalized a rule that will truncate the timeline for prior authorization processes to 72 hours for people who receive health coverage from insurers participating in Medicare Advantage, Medicaid managed care, or the Affordable Care Act exchange.
The CMS...National News
On December 19, the U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) rescinded a Trump era rule that granted flexibilities to small businesses in establishing large group association health plans (AHPs).
The rescinded rule provided the flexibility by modifying the definition of "employer" under federal law such that individuals like sole proprietors...
For the third year in a row, a record number of people have signed up for health insurance plans through the Affordable Care Act's (ACA) federal marketplace.
Federal officials estimate that more than 19 million people will enroll in 2024 coverage by the end of the enrollment period in January. According to the New York Times, already...
Arizona is one of several states expected to add a measure putting abortion access on the ballot in next year's election.
Governor Katie Hobbs threw her support behind the initiative this week by adding her signature to the petition for the measure to make it onto the ballot. The Arizona Abortion Access Act, brought by the Arizona for...National News
As plans on HealthCare.gov and state-based exchanges are selling fast and 2024 enrollment is on another record-breaking year, the Trump reiterated his opposition to the Affordable Care Act (ACA).
The former president and current Republican frontrunner relaunched his attack on the ACA on Saturday morning with a post on his social media...Top of The Day
On Wednesday, the Urban Institute published a report on federal anti-discrimination protections for people with disabilities in healthcare settings, workplaces and when applying for public benefits. Disabled people face greater barriers to access, service and equity than their able-bodied counterparts in many aspects of their...Arizona News
Since 2013, navigators have helped Americans understand their health insurance options and facilitated their enrollment in health insurance coverage through the Federally-facilitated Marketplace.
The statewide award will support Arizona navigators who serve an important role in connecting communities to health coverage, including...National News
Fewer Americans are uninsured than ever before according to new data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). These numbers are anticipated to rise as Medicaid redeterminations continue.
The U.S. Department of Health and Human services (HHS) announced the milestone on August 3, boasting a 7.7% uninsured rate for the...
The U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO) released findings from a probe into healthcare sharing ministries that fail to follow rules for healthcare coverage set out by the Affordable Care Act.
The GAO looked at three major alternatives to health insurance: Farm Bureau health plans offered in six states to Farm Bureau members;...
The U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) has filed suit against a subsidiary of the UnitedHealth Group alleging it denied thousands of claims without reviewing them for medical necessity.
The complaint was filed in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Wisconsin against UMR, a third-party administrator within the...National News
A new bill in the U.S. House of Representatives could roll back Affordable Care Act protections in favor of expanding self-funded health plans for employers.
Self- or "level-funded" health insurance arrangements are funded by an employer in combination with a stop-loss insurance policy for employers to protect themselves against...
A federal lawsuit in Texas is challenging a core tenet of the Affordable Care Act that requires insurers to cover preventive health services.
Back in September, a district court judge ruled that the way the federal task force charged with determining which services were covered is unconstitutional and that the requirement for...
President Joe Biden signed the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) on Tuesday, a $430 billion bill that includes a number of health-related programs that the Biden administration has touted as high-priority since the 2020 presidential campaign.
The bill includes an extension for federal health insurance subsidies and allows the government...National News
Over the weekend, Senate Democrats came together to pass the massive Inflation Reduction Act, which includes a proposal to give Medicare the power to negotiate certain drug prices, as well as a three-year extension of Affordable Care Act (ACA) subsidies to insurers in the form of tax credits that were initially passed as part of the...Top of The Day
The expiration of premium tax credits created by the American Rescue Plan Act could cause a $11.4 billion drop in national healthcare spending, including a sharp decline in spending in American hospitals and physicians' practices, according to a new report.
The report from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, one of the nation's...
March 23 was the 12th anniversary of the Affordable Care Act's (ACA) . The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) published a report to highlight the ways in which the ACA is "the strongest it has ever been" due to the American Rescue Plan (ARP) and other efforts by the Biden administration to strengthen Americans' access to...
On Thursday, the Biden administration rejected work requirements for Medicaid recipients in Georgia, the last state with a federal waiver from the Trump administration for such restrictions.
Though the Trump administration had previously approved work requirements for 17 states, including Arizona, in February 2021, Centers for...Arizona News
Over 1.5 million Americans have enrolled in an Affordable Care Act plan in the first two weeks alone of the 2022 Open Enrollment Period. That comes after 2.8 million Americans gained health insurance during the marketplace’s Special Enrollment Period that lasted from February to August of this year.
In Arizona, over 40,000...National Reports & Surveys
The RAND Corporation, a nonprofit policy think tank, published a report on Monday demonstrating that without enhanced subsidies the Affordable Care Act (ACA) couldn't protect many in New York from health coverage loss during the recession and pandemic.
According to researcher Christine Eibner, the Paul O'Neill Chair in Policy...