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05.04.17

AHCA Sets Up Insurers for Fights Over Benefit Packages

Law360 quoted Manatt’s Michael Kolber, a partner with Manatt Health, in an article about the key takeaways for attorneys from the AHCA’s passage.Kolber said that with key factors like the essential health benefits requirements for individual and small-group plans up for grabs across the ...


02.15.17

Trump’s Proposed Rule Would Preserve Market

Law360 quoted Manatt’s Michael Kolber, a partner with Manatt Health, in an article about the Trump administration’s plan to stabilize the Affordable Care Act. While some ACA backers were discouraged by Trump’s proposed rule, Kolber remains hopeful.“There was a looming ...


05.04.16

If Approved, CA’s Undocumented Could Get Healthcare

CALmatters interviewed Manatt’s Michael Kolber, an associate in the firm’s Health practice, for an article about the possibility of providing access to health insurance for undocumented immigrants in California, a state that is proposing to allow them the option of buying a health plan ...


07.23.15

Manatt Associate Interviewed on Innovation Waiver Updates

Inside Health Policy interviewed Manatt's Michael Kolber, an associate in the firm's Healthcare practice, for an article on CMS' new guidance on innovation waivers.The agency's updates on the waivers, which would let states opt out of major pieces of the Affordable Care Act, ...


06.25.15

Will Conservatives Accept ACA After King v. Burwell?

NBC News interviewed Manatt's Michael Kolber, an associate in the firm's Healthcare practice, for an article on the likelihood of Republicans accepting health reform, now that the U.S. Supreme Court has upheld federal subsidies under the Affordable Care Act."I do expect that given the ...


03.26.14

Manatt Associate Quoted on HHS Sequestered Funds Proposal

Manatt's Michael Kolber, an associate in the firm's Healthcare practice, was quoted by Health Exchange Alert on the Department of Health and Human Services' (HHS') proposal to still pay insurers sequestered ACA risk adjustment and reinsurance funding.As reported by Health Exchange ...