Weeks after releasing proposed Marketplace regulations, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) released its annual Draft Letter to Issuers in the Federally-facilitated Exchanges (Letter) for the 2019 plan year on November 27th. As is typical, the draft Letter provides operational and technical guidance relative to...

Congressional authorization of Federal funds for CHIP expired on September 30, 2017.  Nine million children depend on this program.  States are now operating CHIP on carryover and redistribution payments from prior years. 

On October 25, 2017, the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) released a report on the Bipartisan Health Care Stabilization Act of 2017, which is now under consideration within the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions. 

There were several significant health policy developments at the Federal level this month, including a Presidential Executive Order, the announcement that the administration will no longer fund Cost Sharing Reductions (CSRs) and the release of the bipartisan effort to stabilize health insurance markets known as the Alexander-Murray bill.