Today marks the 10th anniversary of the Affordable Care Act (ACA). Enacted in 2010 by President Obama, this landmark law accomplished a tremendous amount in its first decade. Its accomplishments are especially worth noting as the law faces ongoing threats from the Trump administration during this election year. We must protect the ACA, particularly during the current COVID-19 crisis when access to healthcare is more crucial than ever.
Read MoreWe have put together this infographic on how we can all work together to respond to the COVID-19 pandemic on a personal level.
Read MoreInfographic designed to help you by breaking down each candidate's healthcare proposal and their plans to achieve universal health coverage.
Read MoreRosemarie and other health policy experts (including Larry Levitt, Executive Vice President for Health Policy at the Kaiser Family Foundation and Dr. Jay Wolfson, Senior Associate Dean of Morsani College of Medicine and Associate Vice President of University of South Florida Health) evaluated and graded each candidate’s proposal to reform the healthcare system to help inform voters.
Read MoreEmily George had the chance to speak with Dr. David Jones, Associate Professor in the Department of Health Law, Policy and Management at the Boston University School of Public Health, about his research on how to generate bipartisan solutions to some of our most complex healthcare problems.
Read MoreNow that the open enrollment period for the exchange marketplaces has come to a close, we provide a perspective on what happened, including changes from last year. Results are preliminary.
Read MoreAs we start the new decade, there are multiple public and private sector forces likely to make an impact in the health care industry in 2020 and beyond. Here’s our Top 5 for 2020, including what we expect and why it matters.
Read MoreLast week, we attended the seventh annual Health Care Cost Trends Hearing, a two-day event organized by the Massachusetts Health Policy Commission (HPC).
Read MoreOur very own Rosemarie Day appeared on WBUR’s Radio Boston this week about Massachusetts Governor Charlie Baker’s new health care bill.
Read MoreRegulatory and strategic factors have affected the growth of telemedicine in different ways in the commercial, Medicare and Medicaid markets, and changes materializing in each of these sectors will require industry players of all types to re-examine their approach to this service medium. Here is an overview of this changing landscape which industry players of all stripes should be aware of.
Read MoreRead Thrive’s interview with Rosemarie Day on the future of healthcare and why we must focus more on holistic health, reinvest our resources to more prevention and primary care, and incentivize people to work on the front lines and become generalists, rather than specialists.
Read MoreUnder current law, Health Reimbursement Arrangements (HRAs) qualify for preferential (i.e. pre-tax) treatment because they are considered group health plans. As group health plans, HRAs must meet certain Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA) requirements.
Read MoreRead Rosemarie Day’s interview in Healthcare Innovation on Medcaid ACOs and community partnerships.
Read MoreRead Rosemarie Day’s interview in MedPage Today on conservatives’ plan to replace the Affordable Care Act.
Read MoreIndustry consultant Rosemarie Day, founder and president of Day Health Strategies LLC, tells AIS Health that plans “have to continue to do their strategic planning and look at all of these various scenarios,” including outright ACA repeal, even if it’s unlikely, since, as she puts it, “it’s almost like the uncertainty of all of this has become the certainty.
Read MoreThis article, written by Ross Weiler, Principal at DHS, published in this month’s International Foundation of Employee Benefit Plans Benefits Magazine, describes the latest trends in value-based reimbursement growth and provides a framework for evaluating the differing value-based reimbursement arrangements.
Read MoreMeet Sarah Matousek, a principal at Day Health Strategies.
Read MoreAccording to 2019 enrollment data compiled by and published through ACASignups.net1, State-based Marketplaces continued to outperform the Federally-facilitated Marketplace.
Read MoreRosemarie Day, a healthcare consultant in Somerville, Massachusetts, said in an email that the president “certainly did not propose any large-scale reforms to the healthcare system during the speech, and he was short on specifics for most of it.”
Read MoreOver the last year we have not seen much movement in health policy from Congress but saw administrative action taken by the federal government and movement at the state level. As we start the new year, there are multiple public and private sectors forces likely to make an impact in the health care industry in 2019.
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