Issue Briefs | Mar 17, 2017

Medicaid Expansion and Enhanced Match: How Proposals to Grandfather Medicaid Enrollees Could Impact States

Deborah Bachrach, Jocelyn Guyer, April Grady, Ariel Levin, and Allison Orris, Manatt Health

Some federal proposals implement enrollment freezes for the Medicaid Expansion population, while grandfathering the enhanced match for enrollees that remain in the system. States have experiences with enrollment freezes in recent years and the changes in enrollment levels provide lessons for states moving forward. This issue brief, authored by the team at Manatt Health, highlights the experiences of three states and how enrollment freezes impact state Medicaid rolls.


Expert Perspectives

September 23, 2021

Final Round of Rulemaking for 2022 Affordable Care Act Marketplaces: Implications for States

On September 17, 2021, the U.S. Departments of Health and Human Services and Treasury finalized the 2022 Notice of Benefit and Payment Parameters (NBPP) rule and announced a significant expansion of their oversight of health plans’ provider networks. This expert perspective reviews provisions of the rule of particular import to the state-based marketplaces (SBMs) and state insurance regulators.

The No Surprises Act Proposed Rule on Air Ambulances and Enforcement: Implications for States

On September 10, the U.S. Departments of Health and Human Services (HHS), Treasury, and Labor (DOL) and the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) released a second rule implementing the No Surprises Act (NSA), the comprehensive federal law banning balance bills in emergency and certain non-emergency settings beginning January 1, 2022. This Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (NPRM) details the data on air ambulance services that must be reported to HHS and the Department of Transportation (DOT) and discusses the departments’ proposed approach to enforcement of the NSA. Beyond the NSA provisions, the NPRM also provides guidance on new federal requirements that individual market and short-term plan insurers disclose broker compensation to current and potential enrollees as well as to HHS. Comments on the NPRM are due October 18, 2021. This expert perspective summarizes the provisions of the NPRM and notes particular implications for state regulators and marketplace officials.