The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid announced late evening on December 15th that the deadline to enroll in coverage that would start on January 1st is now extended for most states to December 17th. If you live in one of the below states, which uses the Federal...
As the nation heads into week 3 of the 2016 Open Enrollment Period (OEP), the latest reports show that Affordable Care Act (ACA) policy sign-ups are going well. In fact, with only a few weeks until the Dec. 15, 2015 deadline, this year should surpass last year’s final...
With the year drawing to a close, the 2016 Open Enrollment Period (OEP) looks to be going very well. According to recent data, the Dec. 6-12 week saw more than 1.3 million Americans enroll in health insurance through the federal Healthcare.gov platform. This marks the...
If a bipartisan commission’s efforts prove successful, New Hampshire’s Medicaid beneficiaries may soon find dramatic changes to their dental benefits. State lawmakers are considering adding comprehensive dental benefits to the state’s Medicaid program for adults. And...
With the 2016 Affordable Care Act (ACA) Open Enrollment Period (OEP) well under way, an influential new poll shows that rates of uninsured American are falling. The nation’s third quarter 2015 (Q3 2015) uninsured rates dropped to 11.6 percent, compared to Q4 2013’s...
According to Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s (CDC) National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS) study, the first three months of 2015 saw a total of 29 million (9.2.percent) uninsured people of all ages nationwide . This represents 7 million fewer...
Due to the availability of the special enrollment period (SEP), almost one million Americans have enrolled for health insurance coverage through the government exchanges. Research shows that for the most recent SEP, which ran from Feb. 23 through June 30, 2015, an...
Approval of the 2010 Affordable Care Act (ACA) climbed to 47% in July, according to Gallup's most recent poll on the subject. The new mark is the best that the ACA—commonly referred to as “Obamacare”—has reached since 2012, when Gallup began using the current version...
As of the end of the second open enrollment period under the Affordable Care Act, 87 percent of the people who signed up for health insurance using the federal marketplace at HealthCare.gov qualified for an advance premium tax credit, also called a subsidy, according...
At the close of the Affordable Care Act's second annual enrollment period in February, government officials looked forward to claiming another victory for proponents of the new healthcare law as 11.7 million people signed up for health insurance or retained...
