Health Reform. It's big... it's complex... and just what in the world happens next? Most of all, what provisions affect ANCOR members, direct support professionals, and individuals with disabilities?
Date:
Wednesday, April 28, 2010 - 2:00pm - 3:15pm
In this FREE webinar, Suellen Galbraith, ANCOR's Senior Policy Advisor, will outline important facets of the health reform bill including employer responsibilities, individual mandates, and huge Medicaid changes. This webinar is intended to provide a swift explanation of the most significant provisions affecting ANCOR members and give you an opportunity to ask questions.
Do not miss this important program — it is the first in a series from ANCOR to prepare its members for the coming changes. The information you gain by attending will have far-reaching effects on how you manage your organization in light of this restructure of employer-based health insurance.
Some questions to be answered include:
* When do employer requirements become effective? And what are they?
* How will state Medicaid programs be effected and assisted in covering health care costs?
* Is there Federal assistance to encourage states to urge more Home and Community Based Long Term Services and Supports?
This is a "can't miss" webinar for all ANCOR members about the changes created by the health care bill that will impact their organization.
The free, members-only webinar takes place on April 28, 2010, 2:00 - 3:15 pm Eastern. If you are an ANCOR member and this is your first time logging in to ANCOR's new website, you will need to establish a password prior to registration.
Click here to register.
Check out ANCOR's Health Care Reform Issue Brief Series...
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Download your ANCOR Health Care Reform Medicaid Related Provisions Issue Brief!
Download your ANCOR Health Care Reform Long Term Services and Supports Issue Brief!
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Wednesday, April 21, 2010
Tuesday, April 20, 2010
HHS Sets Up Consumer Information & Insurance Oversight Office To Oversee Health Insurance Reforms
HHS is establishing an Office of Consumer Information and Insurance Oversight charged with developing and implementing major reforms affecting the private insurance market. The new office will design and administer the temporary high-risk pools, establish new rules on medical loss ratios and oversee the state-based health insurance exchanges.
As announced in the April 19th Federal Register, the new office will design and administer the temporary high-risk pools, establish new rules on medical loss ratios and oversee the state-based health insurance exchanges. A director has yet to be announced.
The director of the new office will report to the HHS secretary, according to an HHS Federal Register notice. Four deputy directors will head additional programs established under the new office, including: The Office of Oversight, Office of Insurance Programs, Office of Consumer Support and Office of Health Insurance Exchanges.
The Office of Oversight will be headed by a deputy director and will be responsible for implementing, monitoring compliance with and enforcing new rules governing the insurance market and medical loss ratios; performing rate reviews and issuing rate review grants to states.
The Office of Consumer Support, is to be led by a deputy director, will be responsible for collecting, compiling and maintaining comparative pricing data for the HHS Website; providing assistance to help consumers obtain the maximum benefits from the new health insurance system and establishing and issuing consumer assistance grants to states.
The Office of Insurance Programs will be tasked with administering the temporary high-risk pools and the early retiree reinsurance program.
And the Office of Health Insurance Exchanges will develop and implement policies and rules governing the state-based exchanges; establish and issue planning grants to states; and oversee the operation of the exchanges.
Read more!
As announced in the April 19th Federal Register, the new office will design and administer the temporary high-risk pools, establish new rules on medical loss ratios and oversee the state-based health insurance exchanges. A director has yet to be announced.
The director of the new office will report to the HHS secretary, according to an HHS Federal Register notice. Four deputy directors will head additional programs established under the new office, including: The Office of Oversight, Office of Insurance Programs, Office of Consumer Support and Office of Health Insurance Exchanges.
The Office of Oversight will be headed by a deputy director and will be responsible for implementing, monitoring compliance with and enforcing new rules governing the insurance market and medical loss ratios; performing rate reviews and issuing rate review grants to states.
The Office of Consumer Support, is to be led by a deputy director, will be responsible for collecting, compiling and maintaining comparative pricing data for the HHS Website; providing assistance to help consumers obtain the maximum benefits from the new health insurance system and establishing and issuing consumer assistance grants to states.
The Office of Insurance Programs will be tasked with administering the temporary high-risk pools and the early retiree reinsurance program.
And the Office of Health Insurance Exchanges will develop and implement policies and rules governing the state-based exchanges; establish and issue planning grants to states; and oversee the operation of the exchanges.
Read more!
Obama Nominates Donald Berwick To Be Next Administrator of CMS
President Obama April 19 nominated Harvard professor Donald Berwick to be the next administrator of the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, a post that has been vacant since late 2006. Berwick is a clinical professor of pediatrics and health care policy at the Harvard Medical School and the Harvard School of Public Health. He is also president and chief executive officer of the Institute for Healthcare Improvement, a Cambridge, Massachusetts-based not-for-profit organization that promotes the improvement of health care.
CMS has been without a permanent administrator since October 2006 when Mark McClellan left the agency. Kerry N. Weems served as acting CMS administrator from 2007 until the end of the Bush administration. Charlene Frizzera is currently the agency's acting administrator.
Berwick, whose name surfaced several months ago as a possible nominee for the post, must be approved by the Senate Finance Committee and the entire Senate before beginning his job.
Read more!
CMS has been without a permanent administrator since October 2006 when Mark McClellan left the agency. Kerry N. Weems served as acting CMS administrator from 2007 until the end of the Bush administration. Charlene Frizzera is currently the agency's acting administrator.
Berwick, whose name surfaced several months ago as a possible nominee for the post, must be approved by the Senate Finance Committee and the entire Senate before beginning his job.
Read more!
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