HHS Sets Deadline For State Health Exchange Proposals
May 17, 2012 - Kaiser Health News
The Department for Health and Human Services
released guidelines detailing the requirements states must meet
in their proposals if they want to gain federal approval to
operate these insurance markets.
The
Wall Street Journal: Bid To Coax States On Health Exchanges
The Obama
administration on Wednesday made a fresh bid to coax reluctant governors to work
with the federal government to help enact the health-overhaul law. The move
centers on new marketplaces that sell health insurance, a key plank of the law
that states are supposed to open by 2014. Republican governors, who lead 29 of
the 50 states, are divided over whether to set up the exchanges, which would
allow consumers to shop for insurance plans if they don't receive affordable
coverage through an employer (Radnofsky, 5/16).
Reuters:
U.S. Sets Deadline For Proposals On State Healthcare Exchanges
The Obama
administration forged ahead with healthcare reforms on Wednesday, announcing a
November 16 deadline for state governments to submit proposals showing how they
intend to operate health insurance exchanges in 2014. The Department for Health
and Human Services released a detailed blueprint of the legal and operational
requirements states must meet in their proposals if they expect to win federal
approval to begin operating regulated insurance markets, in whole or in part, by
January 1, 2014, when the 2010 law is scheduled to come into full force
(5/16).
Kaiser Health News: Capsules: States Must Submit Plans For
Insurance Marketplaces By Nov. 16
States must provide details to the federal
government by Nov. 16 – just 10 days after the presidential election – on how
they will run online insurance marketplaces, according to guidance released
Wednesday (Appleby, 5/16).
CQ
HealthBeat: HHS Seeks To Re-Energize Exchange Creation Via New Grants,
Guidance
Six states will get grants totaling $181 million to help them
establish health insurance exchanges under the health care law, Health and Human
Services officials announced Wednesday. That makes 34 states and the District of
Columbia that have received such federal assistance. Officials also released a
guidance document detailing how they will work with states to establish a
"federally facilitated exchange" (FFE) for those that elect not to create their
own such marketplace (Reichard, 5/16).
Modern
Healthcare: Insurance Exchanges Could Mean Savings For Some, Researcher
Says
People who purchase health insurance policies on the individual market
may save an average of $280 annually under the healthcare overhaul's coming
insurance exchanges, according to projections by a federal researcher. Steven
Hill, a senior economist in the Center for Financing, Access and Cost Trends at
the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, analyzed costs for the 11
million beneficiaries in the individual insurance market in recent years and
projected their future costs under the Patient Protection and Affordable Care
Act (Daly, 5/16).
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