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07.11.17

Ario Discusses Decline in Insurer Applications Under ACA

MedPage Today interviewed Joel Ario, managing director with Manatt Health, to discuss the declining rate of insurers filing initial applications under the Affordable Care Act. The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services reported that 141 qualified health plan insurers filed applications ...


07.10.17

Ario Predicts Likelihood of Affordable Care Act Repeal in Senate

Law360 included Joel Ario, managing director with Manatt Health, in an article interviewing 11 thought leaders in the healthcare space on whether or not the Affordable Care Act repeal bill will pass. Ario stated that the Senate bill would not pass due to key Senate moderates appearing ...


06.22.17

Takeaways From Senate’s Better Care Reconciliation Act

Law360 interviewed Manatt’s Joel Ario and Chiquita Brooks-LaSure, managing directors with Manatt Health, for an article on the key takeaways from the Senate’s newly unveiled repeal bill, known as the Better Care Reconciliation Act.  Law360 reports that immediate reactions from GOP ...


06.05.17

Alaska’s Health Insurance Plan Could Be Hard to Copy

CQ Magazine quoted Manatt’s Joel Ario, a managing director with Manatt Health, for an article on how Alaska was able to keep its health insurance premiums low at a time when nearly every state was seeing their ACA rates jump.   The publication reports that Alaska successfully put in ...


05.31.17

How to Stabilize the Individual Insurance Market

Medpage Today quoted Manatt’s Joel Ario, a managing director with Manatt Health, for an article on why Congress and the Trump administration must act now to stabilize the individual insurance market.   The publication reports that this is a “slim, struggling slice” of the ...


05.10.17

Insurers’ Rate Hikes Are Warning Signs in Unstable Market

Modern Healthcare quoted Manatt’s Joel Ario, a managing director with Manatt Health, in an article about health insurers that are asking state regulators to approve giant rate increases for 2018 individual policies.The publication reports that the severity of the requested rate hikes was a ...


05.09.17

Uncertainty in Health Industry Causes Higher Premiums

Bloomberg interviewed Manatt’s Joel Ario, a managing director with Manatt Health, for an article about how turmoil in the health industry is affecting insurers.“It would be good to have some more aggressive stabilization efforts going on,” said Ario. “Uncertainty equals ...


05.03.17

Combining Reinsurance Efforts Would Help Keep Premiums Down

Modern Healthcare interviewed Joel Ario, a managing director with Manatt Health, for an article about a last-minute proposal by House Republicans for funding to help cover insurance costs for people with pre-existing medical conditions in the AHCA.It would be better if Congress consolidated the ...


04.28.17

Insurers Seek Extensions on Rate Filing Deadlines Amid Uncertainty

Politico Pro interviewed Manatt’s Joel Ario, a managing director with Manatt Health, for an article about how states are accommodating insurers amid uncertainty in the marketplace.Ario said that even states that don't formally move their deadlines will still be open to insurers asking for ...


04.25.17

An Alternative for ACA Marketplaces in Small States

Vox quoted Manatt’s Joel Ario, a managing director with Manatt Health, in an article about how to improve the ACA markets.Some smaller states, such as D.C. and Vermont, have opted to require all individual plans to be sold through their ACA marketplaces."It’s better policy," ...