Washington, DC—(ENEWSPF)—March 5, 2014. Today the Administration is releasing comprehensive guidance for 2015 on key health law policies under the Affordable Care Act.   This comprehensive release of regulations and policies responds to the concerns we’ve heard from families, states, businesses, health professionals, Congress, insurance commissioners, and insurers who want certainty[Read More…]

Patients Get More Information to Help Find a Doctor Washington, DC—(ENEWSPF)—February 21, 2014. Today, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) announced that for the first time, quality measures have been added to Physician Compare, a website that helps consumers search for information about hundreds of thousands of physicians[Read More…]

27 percent of January enrollees are young adults – up 3 percentage points from the previous reporting period Washington, DC—(ENEWSPF)—February 12, 2014. Enrollment in the Health Insurance Marketplace continued to rise in January, with a 53 percent increase in overall enrollment over the prior three month reporting period, with young[Read More…]

95 percent of uninsured Latinos could qualify for lower costs on coverage if all states expanded Medicaid Washington, DC–(ENEWSPF)–February 11, 2014.  A new report issued today by the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) finds that that nearly 8 in 10 uninsured Latinos may qualify for Medicaid, the Children’s[Read More…]

Washington, DC—(ENEWSPF)—February 10, 2014. Consumers are applying and enrolling in quality, affordable health coverage every day using HealthCare.gov and State-based Marketplaces around the country.  More than 3 million have enrolled so far, and we hope millions more will do so by March 31st, the end of open enrollment. From Saturday[Read More…]

Washington, DC–(ENEWSPF)–February 4, 2014. Since the Affordable Care Act passed into law in March 2010 the private sector has added 8.1 million jobs. That is the strongest 45 month job growth since the late 1990s and contrasts with the 3.8 million private sector jobs lost in the decade before the[Read More…]

Washington, DC—(ENEWSPF)—February 4, 2014. By Kathleen Sebelius, Secretary of Health and Human Services Building off the strong base of coverage for children in Medicaid, the creation of the Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP) in 1997 made a significant investment toward advancing health coverage for children.  In the first ten years[Read More…]

Washington, DC—(ENEWSPF)—January 30, 2014. Today, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) released findings on a number of its initiatives to reform the health care delivery system.  These include interim financial results for select Medicare Accountable Care Organization (ACO) initiatives, an in-depth savings analysis for Pioneer ACOs, results from[Read More…]

Statement comes on the heels of five-year CHIPRA anniversary Washington, DC—(ENEWSPF)—January 27, 2014. Five years after President Barack Obama signed the Children’s Health Insurance Program Reauthorization Act (CHIPRA) into law, the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) has issued a revised policy statement that analyzes the evolution of the program and[Read More…]

Recommendations to increase the number of health care providers to meet demand due to Affordable Care Act implementation SPRINGFIELD–(ENEWSPF)–January 24, 2014.  The Illinois Health Care Reform Implementation Council Workforce Workgroup recently released its report with recommendations on how to increase the number of providers in Illinois available to provide health[Read More…]