A U.S. district judge blocked a rule by the Department of Health and Human Services that would end anti-discrimination provisions protecting transgender patients. In his decision, U.S. District Judge Frederic Block said that the rule violated a recent Supreme Court decision protecting LGBTQ workers' rights.
The Supreme Court ruled on Monday that the federal government must pay insurers $12 billion in risk corridor payments. The Affordable Care Act carved out the risk corridor program in 2014 to limit insurers’ profits and losses while creating the exchanges.
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Centene CEO Michael Neidorff said the company would bring in more than $100 billion in revenue after its acquisition of WellCare, which boosted its membership to 24 million. Centene still has yet to give guidance for the combined company in 2020, but expects to share those numbers in March.
The Supreme Court denied on Tuesday a motion to expedite its hearing of a case that could determine the future of the ACA. In December, an appeals court ruled the individual mandate was unconstitutional.
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Service released final federal open enrollment numbers on Wednesday. Nearly 8.3 million people signed up for plans on HealthCare.gov, a slight dip from last year.
The appeals court overturned a New Mexico court’s ruling that the risk adjustment approach was “arbitrary and capricious.”
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More than 8.3 million people enrolled through the federal ACA exchanges for 2020, down just 2.4 percent from 2019.
The first piece of financing to disappear happened before most of the law even took effect and more disappeared over time.
Across Missouri, Cigna is the only one of seven insurers to get ratings. The others have not yet been in the marketplace for the three years needed to merit a score.
In a recent analysis, the Kaiser Family Foundation estimated that 21 percent of employers offering health benefits will have at least one plan which applies for the tax.
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The announcement came as the candidate announced his own healthcare policy proposals, which seeks to build on existing provisions in the Affordable Care Act, while opening up a new public option for coverage.
"Earlier concerns that the market would collapse or insurer exits would lead to counties with no coverage available at all have proven unfounded," the Kaiser Family Foundation wrote in an analysis.
Health Insurance Innovations and its subsidiary Health Plan Intermediaries Holdings are accused by plaintiffs of perpetrating a scheme to defraud policyholders into believing that they were buying comprehensive medical coverage plans.
The combined company will have around 22.3 million members across all 50 states, ranking it as the fourth largest insurer in the country.
This recent statement goes further in backing the complete invalidation of the ACA, which includes provisions that range from Medicaid expansion to calorie labeling to protections for pre-existing conditions.