Health
The Academy Health Practice Council (HPC) is dedicated to providing policymakers and regulators with insights to navigate the complex landscape of health insurance and healthcare affordability.
The HPC’s commitment to objectivity and precision in this vital sector helps shape and inform decisions that impact the lives of millions of Americans every day.
Controlling Health Care Spending Growth
Explore issues pertaining to the drivers of health care costs and slowing the growth in health care spending.
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Financial Reporting, Risk Management and Solvency
Financial reporting and solvency issues at the state level, such as NAIC related projects on RBC, as well as emerging international solvency issues and federal regulation of insurance companies.
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Health Reform & ACA Implementation
Implementation of the Affordable Care Act and other health care reform issues.
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Long-Term Care
Federal and state long-term care issues, including the CLASS Act and LTC pricing/valuation.
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Medicare/Medicaid
Ideas for improving Medicare’s financial stability and insights on Medicaid and CHIP programs.
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Policy Paper
Essential Elements: Medicare’s Long-Term Sustainability Challenge
Academy’s Essential Elements paper, Medicare’s Long-Term Sustainability Challenge, provides updated figures and information on the financial outlook of Medicare following the release of the…
Policy Paper
Expanding Access to Public Insurance Plans
Proposals to expand access to public health insurance plans are being put forward as a way to supplement efforts to strengthen insurance markets under the Affordable Care Act (ACA) or to replace the…
Topics: Health Insurance
Policy Paper
Subcommittee Issue Paper on ACA Risk Adjustment Program
Risk Sharing Subcommittee issue paper that reviews the first year of experience under the Affordable Care Act’s (ACA) risk adjustment program with focus on experience in the individual market.Date Published: 04/12/2016
Policy Paper
ACA Risk-Sharing Mechanisms – The 3Rs (Risk Adjustment, Risk Corridors, and Reinsurance) Explained
Health Practice Council fact sheet providing and overview of the three risk-sharing mechanisms included in the Affordable Care Act (ACA) – the permanent risk-adjustment program, temporary risk…
Topics: Reinsurance
Policy Paper
Financial Reporting Implications Under the ACA
Health Practice Financial Reporting Committee white paper providing an overview of provisions in the Affordable Care Act – the premium-stabilization programs, new taxes and fees, advanced payments,…
Issue Brief
A Guide to Analyzing Medicare Premium Support
Issue guide on Medicare premium support and the potential implications of shifting Medicare to a premium support program.
Topics: Medicare / Medicaid
Policy Paper
Fact Sheet: Medicare Shared Savings Program and the Pioneer ACO Program
Update of a June 2011 fact sheet by the Health Care Quality Work Group providing an overview of the Medicare Shared Savings Program and the Pioneer ACO program.
Topics: Medicare / Medicaid
Issue Brief
Voter Guide – A Guide to Analyzing the Issues: Medicare Premium Support
e to help voters understand what premium support is and the potential implications of shifting Medicare to a premium support program.
Topics: Medicare / Medicaid
Issue Brief
Decision Brief: Implications of Medicaid Expansion Decisions on Private Coverage
Decision brief highlighting some of the issues that federal and state policymakers and regulators should consider as they are making their Medicaid expansion decisions.
Topics: Medicare / Medicaid
Policy Paper
Voter Guide – Making Health Care Reform Work: Why Broad Participation is Necessary (Updated)
Voter guide to help explain why broad participation is necessary in the health insurance system to avoid higher premiums.
Topics: Health Insurance