Affordable Care Act, Medicaid, Healthcare Reform

2024 Pre-Election Analysis: Health Care Issues

Mintz - Health Care Viewpoints on 8/27/2024

In recent elections, health care has been one of the most hot-button issues with consequences for millions of Americans, and this election is no exception. The next administration and the 119th Congress have the potential to...more

The Accelerating Kids’ Access to Care Act: Breaking Barriers for Pediatric Patients Across State Lines

ArentFox Schiff on 7/19/2024

In July 2023, US Senators Michael Bennet (D-CO) and Chuck Grassley (R-IA), along with US Representatives Lori Trahan (D-MA) and Mariannette Miller-Meeks (R-IA), introduced legislation to improve access to critical care for...more

Emerging Opportunities for State-Based Marketplaces (SBMs)

Manatt, Phelps & Phillips, LLP on 4/23/2024

The Affordable Care Act (ACA) Marketplaces have nearly tripled their enrollment in their first decade of operation, from eight million people in 2014 to 21.4 million in 2024. At the national level, the ACA has helped cut the...more

The Doctor (Fix) Is In: Regulatory Implications of the Minibus Healthcare Package

McDermott+ on 3/7/2024

Last Sunday, Congress released the text of a minibus package, which will likely be signed into law by tomorrow. While the bill’s primary purpose is to keep the government open, it also includes healthcare extenders through...more

Video: Braidwood v. Becerra – Challenging the Affordable Care Act’s Preventive Services Coverage Provision – Thought Leaders in...

Epstein Becker & Green on 3/1/2024

Braidwood v. Becerra represents a significant legal challenge to the Affordable Care Act’s (ACA’s) preventive services coverage provision, which requires private health insurance to cover various clinical preventive services,...more

North Carolina Expands Medicaid

Manatt, Phelps & Phillips, LLP on 10/3/2023

On December 1, 2023, North Carolina will become the 40th state to implement Medicaid expansion under the Affordable Care Act (ACA), extending Medicaid eligibility to more than 600,000 adults with incomes up to 138% of the...more

Massachusetts’ Cutting-Edge Health Equity Initiatives

Manatt, Phelps & Phillips, LLP on 9/20/2023

Editor’s Note: In a recent "State Spotlight" for The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, reprinted below, Manatt Health discusses the investments and efforts that the Commonwealth of Massachusetts is making to promote health...more

McDermottPlus Check-Up: May 19, 2023

McDermott+ on 5/19/2023

The House and Senate were both in session this week, with significant healthcare activity at the committee level. The House Ways & Means Committee met to discuss healthcare price transparency, and the Ways & Means Health...more

Federal Judge in Texas Strikes Down ACA’s Preventive Services Coverage Mandate

Epstein Becker & Green on 4/5/2023

On March 30, 2023, the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Texas issued a final judgment in Braidwood Management Inc. v. Becerra, invalidating a requirement in the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA)...more

Treasury Releases Proposal to Address ‘Family Glitch’ as Biden Administration Touts Coverage Gains

Manatt, Phelps & Phillips, LLP on 4/7/2022

On April 5, President Biden held an event at the White House celebrating coverage gains since the enactment of the Affordable Care Act (ACA). Joined by Vice President Harris and former President Obama, President Biden...more

Proposal Calls for Increased Transparency of Ownership for Privately Owned Nursing Homes

Arnall Golden Gregory LLP on 3/9/2022

Continuing the theme of increased transparency of ownership of nursing homes included in the 2010 Affordable Care Act, the White House issued a Fact Sheet titled “Protecting Seniors and People with Disabilities by Improving...more

Better Healthcare Newsletter from Patrick Malone - November 2021

Patrick Malone & Associates P.C. | DC Injury... on 11/4/2021

Welcome trends in health care put bad news in perspective We've had plenty of gloom-and-doom news about health care lately, but as we near the year-end holidays that focus on giving thanks, let's look at some positive...more

President Biden Announces Healthcare Provisions in Build Back Better Framework

King & Spalding on 11/3/2021

Last week, President Biden presented an outline of a $1.75 trillion Build Back Better (BBB) social spending reconciliation framework resulting from months of negotiations with House and Senate Democrats. Congressional...more

Senate Lays Groundwork for Fall Health Care Negotiations Before Recessing This Month

Manatt, Phelps & Phillips, LLP on 8/17/2021

The Big Picture - Before leaving for its August recess, the Senate made progress on two major Biden Administration priorities by passing bipartisan infrastructure legislation and a fiscal year (FY) 2022 budget resolution....more

$140 billion in medical debt slams patients, especially the poor and uninsured

Patrick Malone & Associates P.C. | DC Injury... on 8/2/2021

A scandal of the U.S. health system may be far worse than imagined, with the medical debt sold to collection agencies alone amounting to a staggering $140 billion. The $140 billion estimate came from researchers who...more

Congress Weighs a “Fallback” for Medicaid Coverage Gap

Foley Hoag LLP - Medicaid and the Law on 6/15/2021

One of President Biden’s major health care goals is to close the “Medicaid coverage gap” – which refers to those states that have not expanded Medicaid eligibility under the Affordable Care Act (ACA). Until now, the principle...more

Assessing the Fiscal Impact of Medicaid Expansion Following the American Rescue Plan Act of 2021

Manatt, Phelps & Phillips, LLP on 5/13/2021

Editor’s Note: In a recent issue brief for the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation’s State Health and Value Strategies program, summarized below, Manatt Health describes the provision in the American Rescue Plan Act of 2021 (ARP)...more

To rein in health costs, experts focus on $1.2 trillion in U.S. hospital spending

Patrick Malone & Associates P.C. | DC Injury... on 2/25/2021

Although politicians have obsessed for a decade about affordable health insurance, frustrated patients have seen little or no relief on another crucial concern — the skyrocketing costs of medical services. What policy paths...more

Affordable Care Act: Executive Actions and Legislative Outlook

Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP on 2/5/2021

On January 28, 2021, President Biden issued an Executive Order on Strengthening Medicaid and the Affordable Care Act, responsive to Democrats’ longstanding commitment to “roll back Trump’s health care sabotage [of the...more

President Biden Expands Access to Affordable Care Act Exchange Plans, Women’s Reproductive Health

Morgan Lewis on 2/1/2021

January 28 was designated as “health day” for President Joe Biden’s early push of executive orders, with two new executive actions added to a growing list. The Executive Order on Strengthening Medicaid and the Affordable Care...more

Hospitals start to roll out newly required data on prices and confidential deals

Patrick Malone & Associates P.C. | DC Injury... on 1/8/2021

A lot of people in health care across the country are firing up their computers to dig into long-sought, confidential information from hospitals about their prices and deals they cut on them with an array of parties....more

Oregon Public Option Report: An Evaluation and Comparison of Proposed Delivery Models

Manatt, Phelps & Phillips, LLP on 12/22/2020

Section 9 of Senate Bill 770 (SB 770), signed into law in 2019, directed the state of Oregon to engage in an analysis to help policymakers develop policy around a public option or Medicaid buy-in model for Oregon. The goal of...more

Technology Opportunities for the ACA Marketplaces

Manatt, Phelps & Phillips, LLP on 12/17/2020

Technological innovation has always been at the center of the Affordable Care Act (ACA) Marketplaces and has never been more important than it is now. Changes brought on by the coronavirus pandemic have clearly illustrated a...more

U.S. long hoped to reduce health spending. Now it’s happened, but it may not be good.

Patrick Malone & Associates P.C. | DC Injury... on 12/10/2020

The nation has gotten some long-desired, important health care economic news: The country has “bent the cost curve,” seeing 2020 as the first year in at least six decades in which America’s health care spending went down....more

President-Elect Biden’s Potential Executive Actions: A Health Care & Life Sciences Perspective

Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP on 11/24/2020

President-elect Biden’s agenda and approach for his first 100 days in office will depend to a large degree on which party controls the United States Senate. Many of the incoming President’s major campaign promises—such as...more

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