Nearly 91,000 Nevadans enrolled in coverage for 2018 through the state exchange created by the Affordable Care Act during a shortened sign-up period, new data show. That exceeded the total for last year by about 1,900.
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State officials sought an extension of the open enrollment period on the state exchange created by the Affordable Care Act, but federal officials rejected the request.
Sign-ups increase 40 percent over same period last year, calming fears among state officials that confusion over the future of the Affordable Care Act would cause them to tank.
Wednesday marks the first day of open enrollment on the individual health insurance marketplaces. It will last 45 days instead of the usual 90.
Congress is expected to reauthorize the CHIP program, known here as Nevada Check Up, in the coming weeks, but Nevada officials are preparing for the worst in case that doesn’t happen.
Opioid-related deaths dropped in Nevada in 2016 from a year earlier, but hospitalizations and prescription rates rose, Nevada Department of Health and Human Services data presented Monday show.
Insurance exchange officials on Thursday emphasized the need for more aggressive outreach to Nevada’s estimated 43,000 eligible but non-enrolled residents as a result of sharply reduced federal marketing.
A Republican bill to repeal Obamacare and redistribute federal funds in block grants would take money from 34 states — including Nevada — over the first seven years, according to an analysis released Wednesday.
The looming departure underscores the continued volatility of the insurance market amid uncertainty about how federal regulations may change health coverage through the Affordable Care Act.
The state’s expansion of Medicaid in 2014 gave hundreds of thousands of low-income and disabled Nevadans medical insurance, but it also plunged the state into the center of the battle over spiraling health-care costs.
Gov. Brian Sandoval said Wednesday a U.S. Senate plan to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act remains a major threat to Nevada’s future fiscal health.
Nevada Division of Insurance releases initial details on proposed plans, which will be available only in Clark, Nye and Washoe Counties.
Health care legislation before the U.S. Senate could cost Nevada half its federal Medicaid funding and leave one-quarter of the state’s adult residents under 65 without health insurance, according to a new analysis.
The Silver State Health Exchange has no carriers lined up for 2018 that are willing to offer insurance to Nevadans in 14 rural counties, state officials said Thursday.
Nevada’s Republican Sen. Dean Heller distanced himself from President Donald Trump’s budget proposal on Wednesday, saying he is working with a bipartisan group to preserve Medicaid spending in states that expanded the program.
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