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New York Establishes 5 Exchange Regional Advisory Committees

Posted September, 7 2012 by arianne

Today New York State announced the creation of five Regional Advisory Committees to provide advice and make recommendations on the establishment and operation of the Exchange in New York. The committees are comprised of representatives of consumers, small business, health care providers, insurance agents and brokers, labor organizations and other stakeholders. Several HCFANY members will […]

Comments Galore!

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 […]

New York continues to move forward with Exchange implementation

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, […]

Ain’t no mountain high enough…

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, […]