In October 2017, the Trump administration announced that it would stop reimbursing Affordable Care Act (ACA) Marketplace health insurers for cost-sharing reductions (CSRs), the reduced cost sharing ...

Individual market buyers will experience significantly different net of subsidy premiums in 2020 due to state and insurer decisions on how to attribute costs to premiums for the provision of ...

In a 2020 payment rule, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services is soliciting public input on the possibility of ending the practice of silver-loading that has allowed insurers to offer lower ...

Payers and providers are urging CMS to continue to allow so-called silver loading, absent a plan to reinstate cost-sharing reduction payments for ACA exchange plans. The Centers for Medicare & ...

PITTSBURGH, June 20, 2019 - A move by the White House in 2017--decried by many health policy analysts as an attempt to undercut the Affordable Care Act (ACA)--had unanticipated consequences that ...

Coleman Drake receives funding from the National Institute for Health Care Management to study the subjects discussed in this article. His research that was cited here was unfunded. David Anderson ...

The practice of "silver loading" on the Affordable Care Act’s (ACA's) insurance exchanges has led more consumers to migrate from silver plans toward bronze-tier plans that have lower premiums but ...

CSR payments, which were meant to help insurers cover the cost of sicker beneficiaries who need more health services, have been an ongoing source of tension between payers and the federal government.