Health Insurance
This letter provides comment on the proposed rule from the Departments of the Treasury, Labor and Health and Human Services that would allow certain grandfathered health plans to increase patient cost-sharing beyond current limits, without losing their grandfathered status.
The AHA urged the Internal Revenue Services to remove the treatment of health care sharing ministries from a proposed rule issued by the agency in June.
While we appreciate the IRS’s effort to provide flexibility to consumers and expand access to affordable health care, we are concerned that, by promoting health care sharing ministries, this rule validates a type of arrangement that can leave consumers vulnerable, as there is no guarantee for…
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services and Department of the Treasury approved a Section 1332 waiver for New Hampshire to implement a five-year reinsurance program for its individual health insurance market beginning in 2021.
Democratic leaders of the House Energy and Commerce Committee released findings from their investigation of 14 companies that sell or help consumers sign up for short-term, limited duration health plans.
UnitedHealth Group will accelerate nearly $2 billion in claims payments to U.S. health care providers under its fully insured commercial, Medicare Advantage and Medicaid businesses to address short-term financial pressure caused by the COVID-19 emergency, UnitedHealthcare and Optum announced.
The Centers for Medicare…
CMS issued a proposed rule that would implement the standards governing health insurance issuers and the Health Insurance Marketplaces for 2021.
AHA comments to CMS on the transparency in coverage proposed rule. The AHA appreciates the Departments of the Treasury, Labor, and Health and Human Services’ (collectively, the departments) effort to increase the availability of useful information for patients, specifically, the proposal to improve…
The AHA has developed a model comment letter for hospitals and health systems to use to submit comments to the Departments of the Treasury, Labor, and Health and Human Services (the departments) on their proposal to require health plans to disclose all of their negotiated rates, as well as…