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 ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... Roughly 400,000 Coloradans buy health insurance on their own, and those plans are about to see a major change with a funny name that could have a huge impact ...

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 & ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

The practice of "silver loading" on the Affordable Care Act’s (ACA's) insurance exchanges has led more consumers to migrate from silver plans toward bronze-tier plans that have lower premiums but ...