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 ...

“Silver loading” by health insurers paid off for people in subsidized Affordable Care Act (ACA) coverage, particularly in rural areas, according to a new study. Research published this week in Health ...

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 & ...

Ali Shaprio and her husband Carlos Queirós look over their health insurance options on the ACA exchange." The open enrollment period for people buying insurance through the Affordable Care Act ...

Groups representing both insurers and providers have told the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services they're pleased the agency is not currently ending the practice of silver loading for health ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...