Affordable Care Act

Chronic disease prevention programs get $212M from HHS

by Elizabeth Snell

The Department of Health & Human Services (HHS) announced yesterday approximately $212 million in grant awards to chronic disease prevention programs nationwide. All 50 states and the District of...

Hospitals’ uncompensated care costs drop $5.7B due to ACA

by Elizabeth Snell

For approximately 10 years before the Affordable Care Act (ACA) was implemented, the number of Americans without health insurance had been steadily increasing, according to the Department of Health...

More young adults have healthcare post-ACA implementation

by Elizabeth Snell

The per capita healthcare spending for young adults with employer-sponsored insurance (ESI) grew at a rate nearly double that of other adults in the first two years of the Affordable Care Act (ACA),...

HHS: Health Insurance Marketplace to grow 25 percent in 2015

by Elizabeth Snell

US consumers will soon have more options when it comes to choosing healthcare coverage, according to recent research. The Health Insurance Marketplace will have 25 percent more issuers offering...

ACA options: Are healthcare’s uninsured just uninformed?

by Elizabeth Snell

Finding the affordable and applicable health insurance is not always an easy task, and if a recent survey is any indication, a lack of information could be preventing Americans from choosing a health...

Youth mental health services to receive $99M in HHS funding

by Elizabeth Snell

The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) took a huge step forward this week to increase access to mental health services for young people. HHS Secretary Sylvia M. Burwell announced that the...

Rate review programs reduce healthcare premiums by $993M

by Elizabeth Snell

The US Department of Health & Human Services’ (HHS) Rate Review Program and Rate Review Grant Program have shown success since their implementations in 2011 and 2010, respectively. Combined, the...

More parents uninsured in states lacking Medicaid expansion

by Elizabeth Snell

States that did not expand Medicaid could be more likely to have uninsured parents, according to a recent Urban Institute survey. The number of uninsured parents living in states that have not expanded...

HHS awards $295M in funding for better primary care access

by Elizabeth Snell

Last week, $295 million in Affordable Care Act funding was awarded to 1,195 health centers in every state, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, the US Virgin Islands and the Pacific Basin to expand...

Are health insurance exchanges the way of the future?

by Elizabeth Snell

Retail organizations faced with increasing healthcare costs and regulatory demands are increasingly looking toward health insurance marketplaces – also known as exchanges – when it comes to their...