Health Insurance Exchanges and State Decisions
July 18, 2013 | Issue Brief
By January 1, 2014, all states must have an operational individual and small-business exchange, regardless of whether it is run by the state or the federal government.
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Restructuring Medicare
June 20, 2013 | Issue Brief
This brief explores the options that have been discussed for redesigning Medicare cost-sharing and the potential impact on beneficiaries.
Premium Assistance in Medicaid
June 6, 2013 | Issue Brief
Some states are considering using the ACA’s Medicaid expansion funds to buy private insurance for newly eligible residents.
Nurse Practitioners and Primary Care
May 15, 2013 | Issue Brief
Nurse practitioners can help meet the growing need for primary care, if state and federal policy-makers remove barriers that limit their ability to provide, and get paid for, a wider range of preventive services and acute care.
The Multi-State Plan Program
April 3, 2013 | Issue Brief
To spur more consumer choice in the insurance market, the Affordable Care Act created the Multi-State Plan Program to certify health insurance issuers to offer at least two plans in every state insurance exchange.
The CO-OP Health Insurance Program
March 11, 2013 | Issue Brief
The Affordable Care Act's consumer operated and oriented plans, CO-OPs, are supposed to increase competition in the health insurance market. However, they face major challenges as they prepare for open enrollment in October, 2013.
Federally Facilitated Exchanges
January 31, 2013 | Issue Brief
More than a dozen states have chosen to forgo developing their own state-based health insurance exchanges in favor of a federal plan.
Reducing Waste in Health Care
December 13, 2012 | Issue Brief
Eliminating waste in the health care system has become a major focal point in the effort to reduce health care costs. Waste has been broadly defined to many areas: unnecessary services, treatment of avoidable injuries and more.
Basic Health Program
November 15, 2012 | Issue Brief
The Affordable Care Act provides a third option, the Basic Health Program, for individuals who make too much to qualify for Medicaid and too little to purchase private health insurance through exchanges.
Pay-for-Performance
October 11, 2012 | Issue Brief
"Pay-for-performance" programs are supposed to replace traditional fee-for-service care under the Affordable Care Act. Yet studies show pay-for-performance programs have yielded mixed results.