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Trump Administration Freezes Obamacare Payments

The Trump administration announced Saturday that it will freeze billions of dollars in payments to insurance companies participating in the federal health program established by the Affordable Care Ac... read more

Trump administration deals another potential blow to Obamacare by freezing risk adjustment payments

The Trump administration announced on Saturday another potential blow to the Affordable Care Act -- the freezing of risk-adjustment payments that help stabilize insurance pools in the marketplace. The ... read more

Trump administration freezes billions of dollars in payments to Obamacare insurers

The agency typically would give insurers information about their 2017 payments in June 2018, and then move the funds in the fall. The Trump administration could resolve the situation by issuing a new ... read more

The Trump administration is taking another swipe at Obamacare by suspending payments to insurance companies

The Trump administration announced Saturday ... market disruption brought about by the decision to freeze risk-adjustment payments," the group said. President Trump has repeatedly vowed to dismantle O... read more

Trump Administration Freezes Payments to Affordable Care Act Insurers with Sicker Patients

The U.S. agency that administers Obamacare is freezing payments to insurers that ... by the new market disruption brought about by the decision to freeze risk adjustment payments.” It added that the m... read more

Trump administration takes another swipe at ‘Obamacare’

WASHINGTON — The Trump administration is freezing payments under an “Obamacare ... they are being fairly treated under the program. The so-called “risk adjustment” program takes payments from insurers ... read more

Administration’s Freeze On Insurer Payments Rattles Some, But Experts Say Companies ‘Have Weathered Worse Storms’

(Demko, 7/9) Modern Healthcare: CMS Risk-Adjustment Payment Freeze To Hit High-Cost Insurers Hardest The Trump administration's latest shock to the Obamacare system by freezing more than $10 billion i... read more

UPDATED: Trump freezes Obamacare payment program, leaving insurers scrambling

The Trump administration ... as ending risk adjustment could mean windfalls for others, as Kaiser Family Foundation’s Larry Levitt said on Twitter. Ending the risk adjustment program or temporarily fr... read more

Freezing risk payments could upend stabilizing Obamacare markets, experts say

The Trump administration will freeze key payments to insurers meant to stabilize ... “If the Trump administration wanted to use the risk adjustment ruling to ‘sabotage’ Obamacare, as people like Slavi... read more

Trump administration freezes Obamacare risk-adjustment payments

The Trump administration is halting billions of dollars of payments to insurers under the Affordable Care Act's risk-adjustment program, a move that further disrupts the insurance market and could lea... read more