To Your Health What the ACA Has Meant and Will Mean for Consumers and Health Insurers NOLHGA 2016 Legal Seminar, July 22, 2016 To Your Health – Context… ► The Affordable Care Act is making a positive impact: ► Covering the uninsured (Medicaid expansion, Exchanges) ► Protecting vulnerable consumers (EHB, Market Reforms) ► Facilitating the move to value-based healthcare and care integration ► But significant challenges persist: ► Assuring competition and insurer viability across markets ► Assuring adequate benefits and cost sharing for consumers ► Stabilizing financial assumptions: risk pools, drugs, federal payments ► Ever-growing government obligations (Medicare, Medicaid) ► Healthcare system not pointed toward custodial and long term care ► Lingering political and federalism issues
To Your Health Commissioner Teresa D. Miller, Pennsylvania Insurance Department ► A regulator’s challenges in overseeing health insurance markets that are still adjusting: ► 2017 rate and form review ► Long-term care insurance ► Non-MEC health insurance products ► Consumer protections (surprise bills and related topics) ► The role of the NAIC and DOIs in challenging times To Your Health Patricia M.C. Brown, President, Johns Hopkins HealthCare LLC ► Opportunities for Provider-Insurer integration amidst challenges: ► Integrated health systems are positioned to move into insurance ► Emerging value-based insurer-provider partnerships ► Offering products across markets (i.e., government programs) to mitigate risk in ACA markets ► Provider-centric considerations about managing risk, and maintaining solvency
To Your Health Earl R. Pomeroy III, Alston & Bird LLP (former Congressman and President of NAIC) ► Washington DC considers a challenged health insurance environment ► Comments on bi-partisan embrace of value-based and managed care payment models ► Comments on GOP and Clinton health care plans ► Comments on insurer, state, and House vs. DHHS lawsuits ► What can be done to address the challenges facing the public exchanges To continue the discussion… ► Mike Adelberg, Senior Director, FaegreBD Consulting Michael.adelberg@faegrebd.com ► Commissioner Teresa D. Miller, Pennsylvania Insurance Department termiller@pa.gov ► Patricia M.C. Brown, President, Johns Hopkins HealthCare LLC Pbrowna@jhmi.edu ► Earl R. Pomeroy III, Alston & Bird LLP Earl.Pomeroy@alston.com
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