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MonthlyByte December 2019 As the representative and recognized voice of the dental benefits industry, NADP advanced your positions among key stakeholders and the media throughout 2019. Following…
Health and Human Services (HHS) released a report this week announcing more than 9.5 million Americans have selected or been automatically reenrolled into a 2015 Qualified Health Plan (QHP) through the Marketplaces. This includes 7.1 million selections of QHPs in the 37 states using healthcare.gov (new customers plus active and passive renewals) and an additional 2.4 million in the state-based marketplaces (SBMs).
The NAIC System for Electronic Rate and Form Filing (SERFF) recently released a chart tracking the rate, form and plan binder filing deadlines by state, which should be very helpful to carriers looking to certify plans for offer on Exchanges in Plan Year 2016. The chart also includes information on whether a state is using HIOS or SERFF for those filings. The chart specifically details deadlines for on and off Exchange dental plans when provided by a state.
MonthlyByte May 2015 by Chris Swanker, NADP Board Chair Reports of proposed mergers and acquisitions and news about dental benefits in the marketplaces have filled the headlines…
MonthlyByte June 2015 OR Advisory Committee Recommends Embedding in Standard Exchange Plans In a meeting this month, Oregon’s Essential Health Benefits/Standard Plan Rule-making Advisory Committee voted 6…
MonthlyByte August 2015 Nominations Committee Announces Initial Slate of Six Board Candidates Six nominees have stepped forward to vie for three (3) vacancies on the NADP Board…
2015 was another year that kept government relations and compliance professionals on their toes. The year started and ended with Exchanges from the Letter to Issuers in January to the Notice of Benefit and Payment Parameter regulations in December. The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) did not take a break and neither did NADP. States did not disappoint either with legislation and regulations touching on a myriad of dental related topics. As we start to see new trends form, NADP is focused on working with our members and interested stakeholders to keep the industry in a position to respond quickly and appropriately.
Last week, the Center for Consumer Information and Insurance Oversight (CIIO) released its Draft Letter to Issuers in the Federally-Facilitated Marketplaces (FFMs) for Plan Year 2018. Comments are due by Dec. 1.
As members of the Better Medicare Alliance (BMA), NADP is providing the newly released interactive online map representing data from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) of beneficiary enrollment in Medicare Advantage, also known as Medicare Part C, by Congressional district.
Federal lawmakers are negotiating surprise billing legislation for passage before Medicaid and Medicare extenders expire on May 22. Congress has been working on surprise billing reform for more than a year but competing interests and opinions on settling out of network billing disputes have stalled progress.