Tag: ACA
OHIC: Short-term health plans not approved for sale in R.I.
PROVIDENCE - The Trump Administration’s plan to expand access to short-term, limited duration health plans which omit coverage mandated by the Affordable Care Act...
Trump administration resumes ACA risk management payments
PROVIDENCE — The Trump administration is resuming $10.4 billion in Affordable Care Act risk management payments halted earlier this month after a New Mexico...
HSRI applying for reinsurance, sole proprietor access to employer market
PROVIDENCE — HealthSource RI is beginning work to apply for two 1332 waivers through the Centers for Medicaid and Medicare Services for a reinsurance...
HSRI: ACA risk sharing formula unaffected in 2019, payments should continue
PROVIDENCE — HealthSource RI Director Zachary W. Sherman and nine fellow state-based marketplace directors have sent a letter to federal health officials urging support...
Latest Trump administration action puts health insurance market ‘at risk’
PROVIDENCE – President Donald Trump’s administration is temporarily halting $10.4 billion in Affordable Care Act risk management payments to insurers. The move could have...
HSRI insurance bills now payable at CVS locations
CRANSTON – CVS Health Corp. and HealthSource RI have partnered to offer the opportunity to pay health insurance bills at the company’s pharmacy retail locations,...
Sherman: Workgroup anticipated DOJ failing to defend ACA
PROVIDENCE — The U.S. Department of Justice has declined to defend the Affordable Care Act’s individual health insurance mandate in Texas v. United States...
Market Stability Workgroup advises R.I. health insurance mandate
PROVIDENCE — The Market Stability Workgroup is recommending a Rhode Island version of the Affordable Care Act’s individual mandate be enacted sooner rather than...
ACA insurers’ rate increases tempered despite uncertainty
PROVIDENCE – Rate increase requests from the two insurers participating in the individual health insurance market were 10.7 and 8.7 percent for Blue Cross...
OHIC lists health insurance rate increase requests for 2019
PROVIDENCE — The R.I. Office of the Health Insurance Commissioner has released the rate increase requests of the state’s four largest insurers for individual,...
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