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May 2012
- Health care law increases payments to doctors for primary care
- We Can’t Wait: HHS announces first 26 Health Care Innovation awards
- Secretary Sebelius Statement in Honor of National Nurses Week 2012
- Health care law helps community health centers build, renovate facilities, serve more patients
April 2012
- Affordable Care Act Saved People on Medicare over $3.4 Billion on Prescription Drugs
- HHS announces new Affordable Care Act options for community-based care
- Medicare proposed payment rule would promote improved inpatient care
- Health Care Law Protects Against Fraud, Saves Nearly $1.6 billion
- Medicare Stable, But Requires Strengthening
- Report Shows Lower Costs in Medicare Due to the Affordable Care Act
- New report: Competitive bidding saving money for taxpayers and people with Medicare
- New Affordable Care Act program to improve care, control Medicare costs, off to a strong start
- New health care law provisions cut red tape, save up to $4.6 billion
- HHS, Department of Justice highlight Obama administration efforts, Health Reform tools to combat Medicare fraud
- Health care law expands support for children and families
- The health reform ruling: Four likely scenarios
March 2012
- Justices meet Friday to vote on health care case
- States stick to health law strategies
- Court appears split by ideology over health care
- 7 key moments in the mandate oral arguments
- 5 Supreme Court takeaways
- Supreme Court begins review of health-care law
- Statement by Secretary Sebelius on the Affordable Care Act
- CMS announces new initiative to bolster primary care workforce
- New health care law helps young adults get and keep affordable health coverage
- Health reform provides more than 45 million women access to preventive health care services
- Health reform helps more than 5.1 million people with Medicare save over $3.2 billion
- Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act cases on March 26, 27, and 28, 2012
- Standards Related to Reinsurance, Risk Corridors and Risk Adjustment Final Rule
- Affordable Care Act will ensure health coverage for millions of Americans
- Secretary Sebelius unveils “MyCare” stories
- Administration releases Advance Notice of Proposed Rulemaking on preventive services policy
- New Opportunity for Better Care for Nursing Facility Residents through Enhanced Coordination Efforts
- CMS Continues Effort to Improve Quality of Care for People with Medicare
- Affordable Care Act Demonstration to Expand Access to Emergency Psychiatric Care
- Policies give States more flexibility to establish Affordable Insurance Exchanges
- Health care reform law helps 1.3 million minority young adults obtain health insurance
- House Panel Approves Repeal of Medicare Board in Health-Care Law
- Health reform law ends lifetime limits for 105 million Americans
February 2012
- Health reform law provides coverage for nearly 50,000 Americans with pre-existing conditions
- HHS announces new assistance to states: More resources, transparency, and flexibility
- High court health care argument extended to 6 hrs
- Health Reform Expands the Insurance Market, Supports Consumer-Governed Nonprofit Health Plans
- Insurance eligibility improves medical care: study
- HHS ensures consumers get better value for their health insurance dollar
- Affordable Care Act extended free preventive services to 54 million Americans with private health insurance in 2011
- New health care law helps expand primary care physician workforce
- Senate panel approves bill to televise high court
- Health Reform to Require Insurers to Use Plain Language in Describing Health Plan Benefits, Coverage
- HHS launches Strong Start initiative to increase healthy deliveries and reduce preterm births
- Health reform law saves $2.1 billion for 3.6 million Americans with Medicare
- CLASS Act repeal passes House
January 2012
- Obama Administration officials, health care leaders join together at Innovation Summit
- Justice Department defends health mandate
- Affordable Care Act provision cuts red tape, saves up to $4.5 billion
- Healthcare Professionals Selected for the New Innovation Advisors Program to Improve Care for Patients
December 2011
- New Affordable Care Act Demonstration to Provide Care at Home for Medicare Patients
- Affordable Care Act helps 32 health systems improve care for patients, saving up to $1.1 billion
- HHS to give states more flexibility to implement health reform
- HHS Strategic Framework on Multiple Chronic Conditions One-Year Anniversary
- Partnership for Patients initiative to improve hospital care
- Affordable Care Act Sunshine Rule Increases Transparency In Health Care
- New data: Affordable Care Act helps 2.5 million additional young adults get health insurance
- Top court schedules Obama healthcare law briefs
- Affordable Care Act support for school-based health centers will create jobs, increase access to care for thousands of children
- Medicare Gives Employers, Consumers Information to Make Better Health Care Choices
- Affordable Care Act Helping Consumers Get Better Value For Their Health Care Dollars
November 2011
- States receive more flexibility, resources to implement Affordable Insurance Exchanges
- Conflict-Free Case Management for Home- and Community-Based Services
- More Americans than not want health law repeal: poll
- Obama administration launches $1 billion healthcare drive
- Supreme Court to review health care reform law
- Medicare Expands Coverage of Cardiovascular Disease Prevention Services
- D.C. Court upholds health reform law
- Seniors Save More Than $1.2 Billion on Prescriptions Thanks to the Affordable Care Act
October 2011
- HHS announces refined survey standards to examine and help eliminate differences in care based on race, ethnicity, sex, primary language, or disability
- CMS Demonstration to Integrate Care for Dual Eligibles: A Backgrounder
- Increase the Number of Dual Eligibles Receiving High-Quality, Coordinated Care While Generating Program Savings
- Medicare Advantage
- You Must Read This: Top 10 Health Insurance Exchange Reports
- Health care reform review decision could come on Nov. 10
- Affordable Care Act to help improve care for Medicare beneficiaries
- HHS announces new incentives for providers to work together through Accountable Care Organizations when caring for people with Medicare
- SUPREME COURT NOTEBOOK: Health care law in March?
- Obama Lawyers Urge Court to Limit Scope of Health-Care Case
- Affordable Care Act Program to Help Healthcare Professionals Improve Care for Patients and Reduce Costs in Their Communities
- HHS announces record number of National Health Service Corps members
- More people using free preventive benefits provided by Affordable Care
- Obama’s healthcare law tops new Supreme Court term
September 2011
- Affordable Care Act to support quality improvement and access to primary care for more Americans
- Supreme Court Is Asked to Rule on Health Care
- HHS launches new Affordable Care Act initiative to strengthen primary care
- New Affordable Care Act initiative helps create healthier communities, fight chronic disease
- Decision on health-care law means Supreme Court will likely determine constitutionality next summer
- Obama Health-Care Law Gets Mixed Reaction From Appeals Court
- Reducing costs, protecting consumers: The Affordable Care Act on the one year anniversary of the Patient’s Bill of Rights
- DOJ faces decision on next health lawsuit steps
- HHS announces $224 million to support evidence-based home visiting programs to help parents and children
- New data: Affordable Care Act helps one million additional young adults get health insurance
- Over $100 Million in New Affordable Care Act Grants Help Fight Health Insurance Premium Hikes
- HHS awards Affordable Care Act funds for organizations to become community health centers
- 2012 Medicare Advantage premiums fall and projected enrollment rises
- Vice President Biden announces over $2 billion in anti-waste measures at Cabinet meeting
- New public-private sector initiative aims to prevent 1 million heart attacks and strokes in five years
- HHS awards Affordable Care Act funds to improve quality of care and electronic reporting capabilities in Beacon Communities
- Health care law cases rejected by 4th Circuit Court of Appeals
- HHS announces Affordable Care Act funding opportunity to create jobs by building, renovating and repairing community health centers
- New data: Affordable Care Act delivers lower costs to more seniors with Medicare
- State-federal review of health insurance rate increases begins, double-digit price hikes must be justified
August 2011
- HHS awards $40 million to boost public health infrastructure, prepare tomorrow’s public health workforce
- HHS awards $137 million to states to boost prevention and public health
- Affordable Care Act initiative to lower costs, help doctors and hospitals coordinate care
- New Affordable Care Act Policy Helps Consumers Better Understand and Compare Benefits and Coverage
- Analysis: Two justices may decide fate of Obama healthcare law
- Issues in Health Reform: Series Overview
- Appeals court strikes health insurance requirement
- HHS, Treasury take new steps to help states build Affordable Insurance Exchanges
- CMS Releases New Medicaid Emergency Psychiatric Demonstration
- HHS awards Affordable Care Act funds to expand access to health care
- Appeals court tosses health reform challenge
- Affordable Care Act Ensures Women Receive Preventive Services at No Additional Cost
July 2011
- Justices Are Asked to Hear Challenge to Health Care Law
- Texas, 20 Other States Support Missouri Challenge to Obama Health-Care Law
- New Private Nonprofit Health Plans Will Increase Competition, Give Consumers and Small Businesses More Health Insurance Choice
- HHS and states move to establish Affordable Insurance Exchanges, give Americans the same insurance choices as members of Congress
- Health Care Reform: A Snapshot
- About the Amerigroup Office of Health Reform Integration
- Requirements and Options for State Health Insurance Exchanges
June 2011
- Affordable Care Act cuts health care red tape, saves $12 billion
- Federal appeals court rules health care reform bill is constitutional
- Affordable Care Act to improve data collection, reduce health disparities
- Affordable Care Act Delivers Cheaper Prescription Drugs to Nearly 500,000 People
- $10 Million in Affordable Care Act funds to help create workplace health programs
- Continuity of Care and Coverage in Health Insurance Exchanges: Four Design Considerations for the States
- Health Reform Acronym Guide
- Exchange: Provider Network Design
- Exchange: Standard Benefit Packages
- Exchange: Eligibility and Enrollment Processes
- Better Diabetes Care
- Recovery Audit Contractor (RAC) Program Expansion
- Removal of Barriers to Preventative Services in Medicare
- Grants or Contracts to Establish Community Health Teams to Support the Patient-Centered Medical Home
- Medicaid Benchmark Benefits Must Consist of At Least Minimum Essential Coverage
- Protection of Recipients of Home and Community-Based Services against Spousal Impoverishment
- Permitting Hospitals to Make Presumptive Eligibility Determinations for all Medicaid Eligible Populations
- Up to $500 million in Affordable Care Act funding will help health providers improve care
- Administration Announces New Affordable Care Act Measures to Protect Consumers and Put Patients Back in Charge of Their Care
- More People with Medicare Receiving Free Preventive Care
- Affordable Care Act Protects Consumers, Maintains Insurance Options, Helps Transition to New Marketplace in 2014
- Affordable Care Act funds to help create healthier U.S. communities
- Obama Administration releases National Prevention Strategy
- 26 States Challenge Health Care Law in Court
- Approximately $40 million in Affordable Care Act funds for statewide chronic disease prevention programs
- New Affordable Care Act support to improve care coordination for nearly 200,000 people with Medicare
- Appeals court to hear health care overhaul lawsuit
- Major New Effort to Give Consumers and Employers Better Information about Quality of Care
- Obama health overhaul argued in Ohio federal court
- Affordable Care Act Give States Tools to Improve Quality of Care in Medicaid, Save Taxpayer Dollars
May 2011
- Creating a New Competitive Marketplace: Health Insurance Exchange Establishment Grants Awards List
- Affordable Care Act Gives Providers New Options to Better Coordinate Health Care
- Health Care Law: 55% Favor Repeal of Health Care Law, 53% Believe It Will Increase Deficit
- Health reform law will insure nearly all uninsured women by 2014
- $100 million in Affordable Care Act grants to help create healthier U.S. communities
- Obama Health-Care Law Fight Reaches the First of Three U.S. Appeals Courts
- TIMELINE-Basic provisions, timeline for U.S. health law
- Heath reform: Shaping the field of nursing
- States turn to work-arounds on health insurance exchanges
April 2011
- Administration Implements Affordable Care Act Provision to Improve Care, Lower Costs
- CMS Proposes Small Hike in Inpatient Rehab Pay
- Supreme Court turns down Va.’s request to expedite review of health-care law
- U.S. Judge Dismisses Suit Challenging Obama Health Overhaul
- Obama Panel to Curb Medicare Finds Foes in Both Parties
- Streamlining Procedures for Enrollment Through an Exchange and State Medicaid, CHIP and Health Subsidy Programs
- Federal Program to Assist Establishment of Consumer Operated and Oriented Plans
- Qualified Health Plan Defined
- Health Care Law Headed for Supreme Court
- Obama Signs Healthcare Tax Repeal Into Law
- State Demonstrations to Integrate Care for Dual Eligible Individuals
- Medicaid To Offer Rewards For Healthy Behavior
- Government shutdown won’t stop health law implementation
- Senate votes to repeal healthcare tax measure
March 2011
- Health-Care Networks Allowed to Form Under White House Cooperation Rules
- One Year Later: Better Benefits, Better Health
- Poll: Americans Split Over Healthcare Law
- Obama Administration Appeals Healthcare Ruling
- House Votes to Repeal 1099 Provision
- Judge stays healthcare ruling, gives White House deadline
February 2011
- Standardize and Simplify Enrollment
- Reduce Unnecessary Emergency Room Use With Enhanced Primary Care Access
- Reduce Irregular and Above Medicaid Rates Charged By Some Providers
- Reduce Hospital Readmissions With Care Transitions Planning
- Promote Health Literacy To Improve Beneficiary Health Outcomes
- Promote Beneficiary Understanding Through Cultural and Linguistic Services
- Partner with a Medicaid Health Plan To Provide Coordinated Care
- Integrate Pharmacy Benefit Management Into Care Coordination Models
- Increase Provider Participation in Medicaid and Improve Access to Care
- Increase Detection and Prevention of Fraud, Waste and Abuse
- Incorporate New Medical Home Model within State Medicaid Programs
- Advance New Policy Solutions To Generate Savings in Medicaid
- Improve Access To Health Care By Promoting Continuous Coverage
- Focus Provider Reimbursement Models on Patient and Service Bundling
- Focus on Strategies to Increase Prescription Drug Adherence
- Expand Proven Practices for Cost Effective Health Care Coverage in Medicaid
- Expand Availability of the Centering Model of Prenatal Care
- Encourage Use of Generic Drugs By Medicaid Beneficiaries
- Eliminate Direct Marketing and Sales Models in Enrollment
- Coordinate Mental and Behavioral Health Services with Physical Health Care
- Adopt Common Quality Standards, Process and Outcome Measures
- Achieve Medicaid Savings By Offering Online Provider Services
- Improve Coverage and Lower Costs – New Savings Opportunities
- Health Industry Acronym Guide
- Coverage and Benefits: A Comparison of Medicaid, Basic Health and the Exchange
- Medicaid Long-Term Services and Supports
- The Medicaid Program
- To Repeal and Replace
- Expansion of Medicaid Eligibility Reading List
- Basic Health Program Reading List
- Accountable Care Organizations Reading List
- Health Insurance Exchange Reading List
- Health Reform Glossary
- Frequently Asked Questions
- Medicaid Grant and Demonstration Programs
- Demographics and Estimates of Medicaid Expansion
- Basic Health Program
- Four States Get Waivers to Carry Out Health Law
- Poll: Majority disapprove of defunding health reform
- State Demonstration Programs to Evaluate Alternatives to Current Medical Tort Litigation
- Community-Based Collaborative Care Networks Program
- Medicare Program for Early Detection of Conditions Related to Environmental Health Hazards
- Incentives for States to Offer Home and Community-Based Services as a Long-Term Care Alternative to Nursing Homes
- Expansion of Information Reporting Requirements
- Additional Hospital Insurance Tax on High-Income Taxpayers
- Limitation on Excessive Remuneration Paid by Certain Health Care Providers
- Imposition of Annual Fee on Health Insurance Providers
- Tax, Contribution and Definition Changes to Health Care Accounts
- Inclusion of Cost of Employer-Sponsored Health Coverage on W-2
- Excise Tax on High Cost Employer-Sponsored Health Coverage
- Establishment of National Voluntary Insurance Program for Purchasing Community Living Assistance Services and Supports
- More Affordable Medicines for Children and Underserved Communities
- Elder Justice
- Mandatory State Use of National Correct Coding Initiative
- Requirement to Report Expanded Set of Data Elements under MMIS to Detect Fraud and Abuse
- Termination of Provider Participation Under Medicaid if Terminated Under Medicare or other State Plan
- Overpayments
- Enhanced Medicare and Medicaid Program Integrity Provisions and Penalties
- Provider Screening and Other Enrollment Requirements under Medicare, Medicaid, and CHIP
- Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Trust Fund; Financing for Trust Fund
- Patient-Centered Outcomes Research
- Limitation on Medicare Exception to the Prohibition on Certain Physician Referrals for Hospitals
- Medicare Federally Qualified Health Center Improvements
- Expanding Access to Primary Care Services and General Surgery Services
- Funding for Childhood Obesity Demonstration Project
- Reasonable Break Time for Nursing Mothers
- Incentives for Prevention of Chronic Diseases in Medicaid
- Coverage of Comprehensive Tobacco Cessation Services for Pregnant Women in Medicaid
- Improving Access to Preventive Services for Eligible Adults in Medicaid
- Savings from Limits on MA Plan Administrative Costs
- Medicare Advantage Payments
- Closing the Medicare Prescription Drug “Donut Hole”
- Medication Management Services in Treatment of Chronic Disease
- Independent Payment Advisory Board
- Extension for Specialized MA Plans for Special Needs Individuals
- Community-Based Care Transitions Program
- Hospital Readmissions Reduction Program
- Independence at Home Demonstration Program
- National Pilot Program on Payment Bundling
- Medicare Shared Savings Program
- Establishment of Center for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation within CMS
- Quality Measure Development
- National Strategy
- Improvements to the Physician Quality Reporting System
- Value-Based Purchasing in Medicare
- Payments to Primary Care Physicians
- Exemption of 340B Drugs from Managed Care Rebates
- Maternal, Infant, and Early Childhood Home Visiting Programs
- MACPAC Assessment of Policies Affecting All Medicaid Beneficiaries
- Medicaid Emergency Psychiatric Demonstration Project
- Pediatric Accountable Care Organization Demonstration Project
- Medicaid Global Payment System Demonstration Project
- Demonstration Project to Evaluate Integrated Care Around a Hospitalization
- State Option to Provide Health Homes for Enrollees with Chronic Conditions
- Payment Adjustment for Health Care-Acquired Conditions
- Adult Health Quality Measures
- Providing Federal Coverage and Payment Coordination for Dual Eligible Beneficiaries
- Disproportionate Share Hospital Payments
- Prescription Drug Rebates
- Money Follows the Person Rebalancing
- Removal of Barriers to Providing Home and Community-Based Services
- Community First Choice Option
- New Mandatory and Optional Medicaid Benefits
- Enrollment Simplification and Coordination with State Health Insurance Exchanges
- Additional Federal Financial Participation for CHIP
- Medicaid Coverage for Former Foster Care Children
- Income Eligibility for Nonelderly Determined Using MAGI
- Maintenance of Medicaid Income Eligibility
- Health Information Technology Enrollment Standards
- Employer Resonsibilities
- Individual Responsibility Requirements
- Premium Tax Credits and Cost-Sharing Reductions
- Risk Adjustment
- Waiver for State Innovation
- State Flexibility to Establish Basic Health Programs for Low-Income Individuals Not Eligible for Medicaid
- Establishment of State Health Insurance Exchanges
- Special Rules Relating to Coverage of Abortion Services
- Essential Health Benefits Requirements
- Health Insurance Market Reforms
- Administrative Simplification
January 2011
- Medicaid Expansion to Cover Individuals at or Below 133 Percent of the Federal Poverty Level
- Immediate Information that Allows Consumers to Identify Affordable Coverage Options
- Immediate Access to Insurance for People with a Preexisting Condition
- Health Insurance Consumer Information
- Bringing Down the Cost of Health Care Coverage
- Development and Utilization of Uniform Explanation of Coverage Documents and Standardized Definitions
- Extension of Dependent Coverage
- Coverage of Preventive Health Services
- Poll: Voters think healthcare reform will force some to drop coverage
- Changes Wrought By Health Reform? Well, Maybe Not
- HHS awards $30 million in consumer assistance grants
