Client Alert: Health Care Reform Update: Consumer Disclosure Notices; State Waivers; Expedited Appeal of Constitutional Challenge

Consumer Disclosure Notices

On March 7, 2011, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services ("CMS") published proposed consumer disclosure notices requiring insurers to provide public notice of any proposed rate increase of ten percent (10%) or more (the "Notice").  Read more by clicking the link below.

State Waiver Regulations

HHS issued proposed regulations regarding the process by which states can apply for a waiver of certain provisions of the ACA, published at 76 F.R. 13553 (3/14/11) (the “Proposed Waiver Regulations”).  Read more by clicking the link below.

Expedited Appeal in Constitutionality Challenge

On January 31, 2011, Judge Roger Vinson of the United States District Court, Northern District of Florida, declared the ACA unconstitutional in its entirety.  Read more by clicking the link below.

Click on the link below to download the Client Alert which discusses these updates.