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10.05.17

State Officials Scramble to Save MinnesotaCare

The Star Tribune spoke with Manatt’s Joel Ario, a managing director with Manatt Health, on how state officials are working to save MinnesotaCare. The health insurance program covers 91,000 people who are often described as the “working poor.”   Federal health regulators ...


10.02.17

Implications of Oklahoma’s Failed 1332 Waiver

Manatt’s Joel Ario, a managing director with Manatt Health, was quoted by Becker’s Hospital Review on the implications of Oklahoma’s failed 1332 waiver.   According to the publication, these waivers allow states to opt out of specific Affordable Care Act requirements to ...


09.30.17

Uncertainty Follows Oklahoma’s Withdrawn 1332 Waiver

Manatt’s Joel Ario, a managing director with Manatt Health, spoke with NewsOK on Oklahoma’s withdrawn 1332 reinsurance waiver application. The waiver would have given the state permission to use $350 million in federal funds that would act as a backstop by paying a certain percentage of ...


09.29.17

CMS Fails to Approve Oklahoma’s 1332 Waiver on Time

Inside Health Policy quoted Manatt’s Joel Ario, a managing director with Manatt Health, on Oklahoma’s recent withdrawal of its 1332 reinsurance waiver application. The publication noted that the wavier would have helped 130,000 residents by reducing premiums by approximately 34 percent, ...


09.25.17

Failed ACA Repeal Efforts Could Indicate a Pause

Manatt’s Joel Ario, a managing director with Manatt Health, was quoted by Law360 in an article discussing the latest Affordable Care Act repeal efforts.Law360 noted that the Senate’s failure to move the Graham-Cassidy bill forward will likely result in pausing similar efforts for the ...


09.06.17

Peaceful ACA Hearing May Show Promise for Bipartisanship

Manatt’s Joel Ario, a managing director with Manatt Health, was quoted by Law360 on a recent Capitol Hill hearing where Republicans and Democrats spent several hours calmly and constructively discussing the Affordable Care Act.   According to the publication, this strikingly peaceful ...


08.03.17

Can Congress Cure the Affordable Care Act?

Manatt’s Joel Ario, a managing director with Manatt Health, was quoted by CBS News on state stability funds as a way to stabilize the insurance marketplace. According to the publication, lawmakers on both sides of the aisle are turning their attention to stabilizing the insurance marketplace ...


07.25.17

How HHS Might Let States Decide Essential Health Benefits

In a Bloomberg BNA article, Manatt’s Joel Ario, a managing director with Manatt Health, discussed potential regulatory changes in governing the Affordable Care Act. The Department of Health and Human Services has legal latitude in this situation, and can use it whether or not the ACA is ...


07.21.17

Will Federal Insurance Waivers Help States Self-Regulate?

Manatt Health managing director Joel Ario was quoted by The Heritage Foundation in an article discussing how the Senate healthcare bill would allow states to regulate their own insurance markets.   The bill, according to the publication, would allow states to take advantage of a broad waiver ...


07.16.17

ACA Repeal Could Leave Millions of Sick Americans Without Coverage

Manatt’s Joel Ario, a managing director with Manatt Health, was interviewed by the Los Angeles Times on how new proposals could leave Americans with pre-existing conditions without coverage.   The Los Angeles Times reports that the Affordable Care Act equalized the way health insurers ...