Marketplace Enrollment Tops 12 Million For 2021; Largest-Ever Funding For Navigators healthaffairs.org - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from healthaffairs.org Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
March 29, 2021
The Affordable Care Act (ACA) expanded health coverage to more than 24 million people, sharply dropping the uninsured rate for people of all ages, of all racial and ethnic backgrounds, and at all education levels.
[1] The recently enacted American Rescue Plan particularly its two-year premium tax credit enhancements for marketplace enrollees and strong financial incentives for states to expand Medicaid is expected to reach millions of the roughly 30 million people who remain uninsured, a group disproportionately composed of people of color. To address these disparities and make further strides toward universal coverage, an essential priority for recovery legislation, Congress should make broader, permanent improvements to marketplace coverage.
Section 1332 Pass-Through Funding For 2021, New Health Plan Guidance healthaffairs.org - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from healthaffairs.org Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
[co-authors: Adrienne Peng, and Michelle Fong]
As the COVID-19 pandemic continues across the United States, states, payers, and providers are looking for ways to expand access to telehealth services. Telehealth is an essential tool in ensuring patients are able to access the healthcare services they need in as safe a manner as possible. In order to provide our clients with quick and actionable guidance on the evolving telehealth landscape, Manatt Health has developed a federal and comprehensive 50-state tracker for policy, regulatory and legal changes related to telehealth during the COVID-19 pandemic. This summary of findings is current as of noon ET, Thursday, December 3.