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11.04.16

What Insurers Want From the ACA

Health Payer Intelligence quoted Manatt’s Joel Ario, a managing director with Manatt Health, for an article about the various clauses of the Affordable Care Act that have brought obstacles for insurers to overcome.One of the clauses, the individual mandate, requires eligible citizens to ...


11.02.16

NY Proposes Inmate Healthcare Funding via Medicaid

Modern Healthcare interviewed Manatt’s Cindy Mann and Deborah Bachrach, partners with Manatt Health, for an article about New York’s waiver requesting to use Medicaid funds to help cover the healthcare costs of inmates. The likelihood of the CMS approving the waiver is not clear. The ...


11.02.16

Penalties Could Limit Coverage Gaps, Stabilize ACA

HealthLeaders Magazine quoted Manatt’s Joel Ario, a managing director with Manatt Health, for an article about imposing penalties on those who have coverage gaps during the year within the exchanges. The penalties have been proposed as a way of stabilizing the ACA."One form could be a ...


11.01.16

U.S. News Ranks Manatt Practices Among Top in Nation

U.S. News & World Report and Best Lawyers have included Manatt in nine Tier 1 national practice rankings and 25 Tier 1 metropolitan rankings for the 2017 “Best Law Firms” guide. The firm has also been named “Law Firm of the Year” in Advertising Law and Entertainment Law ...


10.31.16

Provider-Sponsored Regional Plans Serve Varied Health Needs

Insurance Business interviewed Manatt’s Joel Ario, a managing director with Manatt Health, for an article about his role in the Affordable Care Act and how the program is working now.In response to a question about what advice he would give insurance companies on the exchanges, Ario ...


10.26.16

Lawmakers Need to Work Together for Constituents’ Sake

Morning Consult quoted Manatt’s Joel Ario, a managing director with Manatt Health, for an article about the partisan debate over the Affordable Care Act.Ario told the publication that if Hillary Cilnton, who plans to build on the law rather than repeal it, were to be elected, then Republicans ...


10.26.16

Ario Interviewed on NPR Regarding ACA Developments

NPR interviewed Manatt’s Joel Ario, a managing director with Manatt Health, on The Diane Rehm Show for a segment about the Affordable Care Act’s future under a new administration, as well as a discussion of recent rate increases and subsidies.Despite the high rate increases that have ...


10.25.16

What to Do if Your Insurer Has Left the Exchange

CBS MoneyWatch interviewed Manatt’s Joel Ario, a managing director with Manatt Health, for an article about what consumers should do if their health insurance company is pulling out of the exchange business next year.Ario’s advice was four-fold: First, Ario advised consumers to watch ...


10.24.16

Off-Exchange Market Poses New Questions for Health Insurance

Modern Healthcare quoted Manatt’s Joel Ario, a managing director with Manatt Health, for an article about how the ACA marketplace compares with the off-exchange health insurance market.The publication reports that one reason some consumers go off the exchanges is that they find it simpler to ...


10.24.16

KY Medicaid Waiver Proposes Radical Changes

The Hill Extra quoted Manatt’s Deborah Bachrach, a partner with Manatt Health, for an article about the extended comment period for the controversial Kentucky Medicaid waiver. CMS extended the comment period after receiving an unprecedented number of responses to the proposal to change ...