Posted September, 5 2012 by arianne
The summer may be cooling down, but the ACA is heating up as the feds continue to issue opportunities for public comment on ACA rulemaking. On August 21, as follow up to comments submitted in October 2011, HCFANY submitted comments on the final regulations for the health insurance premium tax credit. We await further guidance […]
Posted August, 24 2012 by arianne
And when I say “move forward,” what I really mean is full steam ahead. Yesterday the State announced that it had received an additional $95 million in federal funds to continue to build up New York’s forthcoming Health Insurance Exchange. This money will primarily be used to finance a lot of of the back-end operations, […]
Posted August, 21 2012 by arianne
http://youtu.be/Xz-UvQYAmbg Health insurance plans are now posting as much as 300-500 pages worth of documents, spreadsheets, actuarial data, and other information on the Department of Financial Services (DFS) website as justification for this year’s proposed premium rate increases. It has been quite the endeavor to sift through all of this and make heads or tails of it, […]
Posted August, 13 2012 by arianne
As part of the ACA, New York State’s Exchange has to select a health insurance benefit package to serve as the State’s “Essential Health Benefits” (EHB). These will be the core health benefits that will be required to be covered by all (non-grandfathered) health plans sold in New York starting in 2014. According to federal regulations, New York has […]