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- July 28, 2022
Essential Health Benefits: Best Practices in Benchmark Selection
Read moreThe Affordable Care Act (ACA) established a comprehensive set of ten Essential Health Benefits (EHB) that most health plans must cover. Under federal rules, states can select a benchmark plan that defines what the ten benefits look like in each state. However, many states still have no process for…
- February 11, 2022
NHeLP letter to HHS Sec. Becerra – Re: Advancing Health Equity Through Essential Health Benefits
Read moreThe Affordable Care Act (ACA) established a comprehensive set of ten Essential Health Benefits (EHB) that most health plans must cover. However, regulations allowing states to define EHB through a benchmarking process have lead to inconsistent and inadequate coverage. In this letter to HHS Secretary Xavier Becerra, NHeLP urges…
- April 14, 2020
Essential Health Benefits (EHB) benchmarking process
Read moreThe Essential Health Benefits (EHB) benchmarking process has been significantly modified throughout the years to provide states with increasing flexibility to either make harmful cuts to coverage or improve coverage. The current benchmarking process, finalized in 2017, established a new ceiling on the generosity of benefits provided under the…
- May 9, 2018
Step Guide to Updating States’ Essential Health Benefits Benchmark Plans
Read moreA step-by-step guide for state health care advocates to fight for robust coverage of the Affordable Care Act's Essential Health Benefits (EHB). The guide by National Health Law Program Staff Attorney Hayley Penan follows a new rule from Trump's HHS that gives states greater flexibility to weaken the ACA's…
- April 23, 2018
Overview of Changes to the Essential Health Benefits Standards in NBPP 2019
Wayne Turner, Hector Hernandez-Delgado, Candace Gibson, and Hayley Penan Issue BriefRead moreThe U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) is advancing a new rule intended to greatly weaken the Affordable Care Act's "Essential Health Benefits Standards," by allowing insurers to create plans that do not include all of the ACA's ten categories of essential health care services, such as…
