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| ! | 2011-2013 Health Insurance Reform Enacted State Laws Related to the PPACA | Bill Summaries/ Databases | 5/1/2013 12:00:00 AM | /default.aspx?tabid=19948 | 19948 | 2011 - 2013 Health Insurance Reform Enacted State Laws Related to the Affordable Care Act |
| | State Responses to Insurance Reform: News and Commentary | Articles/Briefs/ Newsletters | 5/20/2013 12:00:00 AM | /default.aspx?tabid=21267 | 21267 | News and commentary describing market and state responses to Health Insurance Reforms. |
| | Private Health Exchanges and Health Reform | Reports | 4/25/2013 12:00:00 AM | /default.aspx?tabid=13805 | 13805 | The Rise of Private Health Exchanges: Implications for Health Consumers, Insurers and Employers. |
| | Massachusetts Health Initiatives: 20 Years of Change | Reports | 4/15/2013 12:00:00 AM | /default.aspx?tabid=14543 | 14543 | Read about the Massachusetts Health Initiatives: health reform and cost containment across 20 Years of Change |
| | Health Insurance and States: NCSL Overview | Reports | 4/11/2013 12:00:00 AM | /default.aspx?tabid=14509 | 14509 | Overview of state health insurance laws and activities. |
| | HSAs- Health Savings Accounts and the States | Bill Summaries/ Databases | 4/1/2013 12:00:00 AM | /default.aspx?tabid=14462 | 14462 | Health Savings Accounts (HSAs) and High-Deductible Health Plans (HDHPs) have spread in the past eight years, with new laws and evolving practices in virtually all 50 states. |
| | High Risk Pools for Health Coverage, State and Federal (State Implementation Report) | Reports | 3/1/2013 12:00:00 AM | /default.aspx?tabid=14329 | 14329 | To aid uninsurable individuals with pre-existing medical conditions, 27 states have implemented federal high-risk health insurance pools, while 23 defer to the feds. Federal health reform of 2010 provides $5 billion among all 50 states, a majority are run by states; the others have selected a federally-run option |
| | State Insurance Mandates and the PPACA Essential Benefits Provisions | Reports | 2/28/2013 12:00:00 AM | /default.aspx?tabid=14227 | 14227 | State Health Insurance Mandates and the PPACA Essential Benefits Provisions |
| | Health insurance exchanges | Articles/Briefs/ Newsletters | 2/1/2013 12:00:00 AM | /default.aspx?tabid=25750 | 25750 | Read this story for information on how states are dealing with establishing health exchanges |
| | State Employee Health Benefits, NCSL | Reports | 1/31/2013 12:00:00 AM | /default.aspx?tabid=14345 | 14345 | A compendium of facts and resources on the states' employee health benefit plans. |
| | HIPAA: An Overview of Impacts and Actions by States | Reports | 1/25/2013 12:00:00 AM | /default.aspx?tabid=14364 | 14364 | The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996, known as HIPAA, continues to have a broad impact on state health policy, as well as on virtually all health providers, insurers and health consumers. Listed below are brief updates and resources of potential interest to state legislatures. |
| | Purchasing Cooperatives and Alliances for State Health Insurance | Bill Summaries/ Databases | 1/1/2013 12:00:00 AM | /default.aspx?tabid=18905 | 18905 | State Health Insurance Purchasing cooperatives (CO-OPs), also known as alliances and pools. PPACA provisions and start-up loans for 2012. |
| | Health Insurance Medical Loss Ratios (State Implementation Report) | Bill Summaries/ Databases | 9/20/2012 12:00:00 AM | /default.aspx?tabid=21780 | 21780 | Information about Health Insurance Medical Loss Ratios (MLRs) including existing state laws and new ACA-related provisions |
| | Health Insurance Rate Approval / Disapproval (State Implementation Report) | Bill Summaries/ Databases | 9/12/2012 12:00:00 AM | /default.aspx?tabid=19787 | 19787 | Health Insurance State Rate Approval and Disapproval, including 50-state laws, bills and new federal HHS-approved rate procedures, updated fall 2011. |
| | Out-of-state Health Insurance - Allowing the Purchase (State Implementation Report) | Bill Summaries/ Databases | 8/10/2012 12:00:00 AM | /default.aspx?tabid=20015 | 20015 | Allowing or facilitating the purchase of health insurance out-of-state. 21 states have considered legislation; Rhode Island, Wyoming and Georgia enacted the first laws. |
| | States Consider Interstate Health Compacts | Bill Summaries/ Databases | 7/26/2012 12:00:00 AM | /default.aspx?tabid=14103 | 14103 | 25 States Consider Health Compacts to Challenge Federal PPACA; 7 laws enacted. |
| | Health Reform Turns Two | Articles/Briefs/ Newsletters | 3/1/2012 12:00:00 AM | /default.aspx?tabid=24334 | 24334 | After passage of the Affordable Care Act, the work—and the criticisms—persist. |
| | Annual Benefit Limits: States Get Waivers Allowing Some Insurance Exemptions | Reports | 2/20/2012 12:00:00 AM | /default.aspx?tabid=22273 | 22273 | 4 States Get Waivers Allowing some Insurance Benefit Annual Limits- HHS clarifies status for insurers |
| | Health Care Discount Plans: State Roles and Regulation | Bill Summaries/ Databases | 12/1/2011 12:00:00 AM | /default.aspx?tabid=17539 | 17539 | A state by state examination of regulations aimed at health discount plans which generally are not actually insurance. |
| | State Roles in Health Reform Provisions Related to Insurance | Reports | 10/20/2011 12:00:00 AM | /default.aspx?tabid=23315 | 23315 | State Roles in Health Reform Provisions Related to Insurance |
| | Health Insurance Plan Types and Definitions | Reports | 9/1/2011 12:00:00 AM | /default.aspx?tabid=19949 | 19949 | Health Plan Types & Definitions - including HMOs, PPOs and other variations |
| | [Summit 11] Here and Now: States Respond to Health Insurance Reform | Multimedia | 8/11/2011 12:00:00 AM | /default.aspx?tabid=23415 | 23415 | Here and Now: States Respond to Health Insurance Reform: 3 experts explain the latest requirements, options and outcomes of reforms already being implemented in 2010-1013 related to the Affordable Care Act |
| | [2011 Legislative Summit] States Opting Out: Health Reform Challenges, Waivers and Alternatives | Multimedia | 8/10/2011 12:00:00 AM | /default.aspx?tabid=23581 | 23581 | States Opting Out: Health Reform Challenges, Waivers and Alternatives |
| | Mandated Health Insurance Benefits and State Laws: Overview | Reports | 7/20/2011 12:00:00 AM | /default.aspx?tabid=14463 | 14463 | For more than two decades, Legislators regularly debate whether mandates ensure adequate protection for their constituents or further simply increase their health care costs. Here are some links that provide background, information and examples of legislation regarding mandated coverage |
| | Managed Care Ombudsman, Report Cards and Profiles, 2011 | Reports | 5/2/2011 12:00:00 AM | /default.aspx?tabid=14337 | 14337 | Health Insurance and Managed Care Ombudsman, Report Cards and Profiles, 2011 |
| | Individual Health Insurance in the States, 2011 | Reports | 4/28/2011 12:00:00 AM | /default.aspx?tabid=18148 | 18148 | States and Individual Health Insurance, 2011 |
| | Webinar: States Implementing Health Reform: Consumer Assistance and Insurance Oversight-Dec 1 | Multimedia | 12/1/2010 12:00:00 AM | /default.aspx?tabid=21569 | 21569 | States Implementing Health Reform: Consumer Assistance and Insurance Oversight - a Webinar on December 1, 2010 |
| | 2010 State Implementation of Federal Health Reform (State Activity) | Bill Summaries/ Databases | 11/8/2010 12:00:00 AM | /default.aspx?tabid=20231 | 20231 | This page tracks state implementation of the 2010 federal health reform law. |
| | Health insurance exchanges: Q & A with Jon Kingsdale | Articles/Briefs/ Newsletters | 10/11/2010 12:00:00 AM | /default.aspx?tabid=21406 | 21406 | Jon Kingsdale of Mass.: A Q and A on Health Insurance Exchanges |
| | Facing the Future - Setting up health insurance exchanges | Articles/Briefs/ Newsletters | 10/9/2010 12:00:00 AM | /default.aspx?tabid=21423 | 21423 | Setting up health insurance exchanges is one of the big, early tasks for lawmakers. |
| | Health Reform Implementation: Immediate Health Insurance Reforms Become Effective | Reports | 9/23/2010 12:00:00 AM | /default.aspx?tabid=21342 | 21342 | Six months after health reform legislation became law, health insurance market reforms go into effect September 23, 2010. |
| | Webinar: High Risk Pools: What Legislators Need to Know | Multimedia | 5/3/2010 12:00:00 AM | /default.aspx?tabid=20251 | 20251 | What Legislators Need to Know about High Risk Pools |
| | Webinar: States Opting Out -States Checking Up on Health Reform | Multimedia | 5/1/2010 12:00:00 AM | /default.aspx?tabid=19233 | 19233 | As the great laboratories of democracy, many states have their own ideas for reform. This session will discuss the issues around state authority to accept, modify, or decline to participate in various components of federal health reforms. |
| | Managed Care State Laws | Bill Summaries/ Databases | 6/1/2009 12:00:00 AM | /default.aspx?tabid=14320 | 14320 | Managed Care State Laws and Regulations, Including Consumer and Provider Protections |
| | State Health Plans Challenged by ERISA | Reports | 8/31/2008 12:00:00 AM | /default.aspx?tabid=14485 | 14485 | Laws in Maryland, San Francisco and Suffolk County, NY test the role of the federal ERISA law in limiting state actions |
| | Genetic Nondiscrimination in Health Insurance Laws | Bill Summaries/ Databases | 6/25/2008 12:00:00 AM | /default.aspx?tabid=14374 | 14374 | Provides a 50 state chart of genetics and health insurance state anti-discrimination laws. |