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10-12-12 Affordable Care Act Update

October 18, 2012
Maine

State Update State policy makers continue debating and discussing whether to expand Medicaid to individuals up to 133 percent the federal poverty level. Since the Supreme Court ruled that the Medicaid expansion provision in the Affordable Care Act (ACA) is optional, nearly a dozen governors have indicated

10-5-12 Affordable Care Act Update

October 5, 2012
Maine

Federal Update Physician networks and hospital systems can play an important role in driving down health care costs and improving quality of care. The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation recently released a report titled "Plan Participation in Health Insurance Exchanges: Implications for Competition and Choice" that looks at

Maine staff and volunteers attend 2012 Lobby Day

October 3, 2012
Maine

Senator Snowe was presented with the ACS CAN National Distinguished Advocacy Award at 2012 Lobby Day. Click on the link below to read the media release. NDAA_Award_Snowe_Media_Release.doc Click on the link below to read the 2012 Maine Lobby Day media release. ACS_CAN_Lobby_Day_Press_Release_2012_Maine.docx

9-21-12 Affordable Care Act Update

October 3, 2012
Maine

Medical Loss Ratio (MLR) Repeal Legislation Clears House Energy and Commerce Committee On Thursday, the House Energy and Commerce Committee marked up and approved H.R. 1206, the Access to Professional Health Insurance Advisors Act of 2011. The legislation would remove the commissions of health insurance agents from

9-27-12 Affordable Care Act Update

October 3, 2012
Maine

Federal Update Beginning this week, all health insurers and group health plans are required to provide applicants and interested parties with an easy-to-understand summary of a plan's benefits and coverage. The summary must be provided during the plan's next open enrollment period. The new requirement is designed to help

August 2012 Monthly Advocacy Update

August 28, 2012
Maine

Stay up to date in between Monthly Updates with Cancer CANdor , a blog from ACS CAN's President. ACS CAN LEADERSHIP SUMMIT AND LOBBY DAY More than 500 ACS CAN volunteers and staff from all 50 states and nearly every Congressional district will gather in Washington,

8-23-12 Affordable Care Act Update

August 24, 2012
Maine

State Update The essential health benefits (EHB) provision in the Affordable Care Act (ACA) requires all health plans in the individual and small-group market (inside and outside state insurance exchanges) to offer patients a minimum standard of benefits beginning in 2014. Each state has been tasked with

8-16-12 Affordable Care Act Update

August 17, 2012
Maine

State Health Exchanges This week the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) issued a final blueprint to states on how the procedures and criteria for securing federal approval for a state-run insurance exchange or exchanges operated through a state-federal partnership. The blueprint details the

8-10-12 Affordable Care Act Update

August 13, 2012
Maine

State Update 10 th Annual How Do You Measure Up? Report Evaluates States' Cancer Legislation and Policy Efforts ACS CAN released its 10th annual How Do You Measure Up?: A Progress Report on State Legislative Activity to Reduce Cancer Incidence and Mortality on Thursday, August 9, at