New data released today shows that 2.5 million more young adults are covered by health insurance due to health care reform, the Affordable Care Act (ACA). Traditionally, young adults have been the population least likely to have health insurance. To address this, the ACA ensured starting in September 2010, that all young adults are able...
Health care advocates in the Save BadgerCare Coalition agree with the Department of Health Services (DHS) on at least one thing – that the BadgerCare changes proposed by DHS can’t be made without a waiver of the “maintenance of effort” (MOE) requirements of the federal health care reform law. Those provisions of the Affordable Care Act...
A federal official at the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) announced today that the agency probably won’t be able to act as quickly as the Walker Administration had hoped on a long and complicated waiver request that would allow the state to make sweeping changes to BadgerCare. However, the letter from CMS to Secretary...
Continued Debate over a Slight OCI Technical Change Is Telling Although officials in the Walker Administration have said on a number of occasions that they plan to implement the Health Insurance Exchanges required by the Affordable Care Act (ACA), we still haven’t seen the Exchange legislation that they said we could expect in the fall....
What may sound like a wonky insurance industry term is poised to have a real impact on health care consumers through the health care reform law. Recent regulations and developments around implementation of the medical loss ratio (MLR) standards have been in the news both nationally and in Wisconsin in recent weeks and months. The...
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