http://faegrebdc.com/insurance-financial-services en-us Copyright 2000-16 FaegreBD Consulting. All Rights Reserved. http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss 11/27/2016 9:36:43 PM In an article for Inside Health Insurance Exchanges, FaegreBD Consulting senior director Mike Adelberg explained how President-elect Donald Trump and the Republican leaders in Congress may be able to gut the Affordable Care Act (ACA) without a full... http://faegrebdc.com/mike-adelberg-discusses-aca-repeal-with-inside-health-insurance-exchanges 22 Nov 2016 00:00:00:000 Donald Trump’s election as president of the United States of America was as unexpected in the polls as the United Kingdom’s vote to embrace Brexit. Now Democrats and Republicans alike are trying to assess how Mr. Trump, a political outsider, will... http://faegrebdc.com/trump-administration-forecast-changes-to-key-policies-expected 14 Nov 2016 00:00:00:000 In an article for Medicare Advantage News, FaegreBD Consulting senior director Mike Adelberg shared his thoughts on the recent decision of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) to cap expansion of the so-called “seamless enrollment”... http://faegrebdc.com/mike-adelberg-discusses-cms-complaints-with-medicare-advantage-news 07 Nov 2016 00:00:00:000 The White House The worst kept secret in all of politics is, “What are the key swing states?” in any election. At this point if you live in Ohio, North Carolina, Florida or Nevada, you do not need a reminder. The outcome of these states, in... http://faegrebdc.com/insurance-and-financial-services-election-cheat-sheet-what-to-watch 02 Nov 2016 00:00:00:000 In an article for The Hill, FaegreBD Consulting Senior Director Mike Adelberg explained how the exchange market may stabilize in 2017 “if the administration is successful in bringing in a million new younger and healthier enrollees during open... http://faegrebdc.com/mike-adelberg-discusses-final-obamacare-push-with-the-hill 27 Oct 2016 00:00:00:000 In an article with the American Pharmacists Association, FaegreBD Consulting principal and Alliance for Safe Online Pharmacies–Global (ASOP Global) executive director Libby Baney shared information about a recent free online course that ASOP offered... http://faegrebdc.com/libby-baney-discusses-illegal-online-drug-sellers-with-the-american 05 Oct 2016 00:00:00:000 In an article for Medicare Advantage News, FaegreBD Consulting Senior Director Mike Adelberg explained how the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) seem to be making two points with stricter regulations for both Medicare Advantage and... http://faegrebdc.com/mike-adelberg-discusses-cms-fines-with-medicare-advantage-news 04 Oct 2016 00:00:00:000 In an article for Inside CMS, FaegreBD Consulting Senior Director Mike Adelberg commented on the news that health care insurers will not receive any money under the risk corridor program for 2015 because the collected money is going towards benefit... http://faegrebdc.com/mike-adelberg-discusses-2015-risk-corridor-funding-with-inside-cms 22 Sep 2016 00:00:00:000 In an article for Medicare Advantage News, FaegreBD Consulting Senior Director Mike Adelberg shared his thoughts on a recent decision by CMS (Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services) to lower its highest star rating to 2.5 stars for contracts... http://faegrebdc.com/mike-adelberg-discusses-cms-star-ratings-with-medicare-advantage-news 19 Sep 2016 00:00:00:000 David Brooks, an op-ed columnist for the The New York Times, used a quote from FaegreBD Consulting Senior Director Mike Adelberg from a Vox article where he discussed the shrinking Affordable Care Act (ACA) marketplace and its resemblance to similar... http://faegrebdc.com/the-new-york-times-picks-up-quotes-from-mike-adelberg 07 Sep 2016 00:00:00:000 In an article for The Atlantic, Faegre Baker Daniels counsel Libby Baney shared her concerns for transgender people who purchase drugs from online pharmacies. She warned that about a half of these online pharmacies are selling counterfeit drugs. http://faegrebdc.com/libby-baney-quoted-in-the-atlantic-about-online-pharmacies-and 06 Sep 2016 00:00:00:000 In an article for Inside CMS, FaegreBD Consulting Senior Director Mike Adelberg shared his thoughts on why the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) decided to reduce its new provider network rating initiative for the federally-run... http://faegrebdc.com/mike-adelberg-quoted-in-inside-cms-about-new-network-rating 01 Sep 2016 00:00:00:000 With multiple large insurers leaving the Affordable Care Act (ACA) marketplace, some are questioning the possibility of a market failure. In many places in 2017, the ACA marketplace will offer fewer consumers extensive options or rich benefits. In... http://faegrebdc.com/mike-adelberg-quoted-in-vox-on-affordable-care-act-successes 29 Aug 2016 00:00:00:000 The federal government recently blocked insurance giant, Aetna, from acquiring Humana which may have contributed to Aetna's decision to drop 70 percent of its health plans in the Affordable Care Act (ACA) markets. Amid continued losses, Aetna and... http://faegrebdc.com/mike-adelberg-quoted-in-modern-healthcare-about-aca-risk-adjustment 23 Aug 2016 00:00:00:000 FaegreBD Consulting Senior Director Mike Adelberg contributed several quotes to a recent edition of Medicare Advantage News where he discussed two different topics surrounding changes in the Medicare marketplace. In one article, Adelberg shared... http://faegrebdc.com/mike-adelberg-quoted-in-medicare-advantage-news-about-cms-secret 22 Aug 2016 00:00:00:000 With major health insurers such as Aetna and UnitedHealthcare scaling back participation in the Affordable Care Act (ACA) health insurance exchanges, the future of these marketplaces has been called into question. In an article for The Hill... http://faegrebdc.com/mike-adelberg-quoted-in-the-hill-about-insurers-exiting-aca 17 Aug 2016 00:00:00:000 In a recent Health Affairs Blog essay with professor Nicholas Bagley of the University of Michigan law school, FaegreBD Consulting Senior Director Mike Adelberg broke down the premium stabilization programs of the Affordable Care Act (ACA) that... http://faegrebdc.com/la-times-and-politico-pick-up-mike-adelbergs-affordable-care 10 Aug 2016 00:00:00:000 CMS has implemented a new policy where Medicare Advantage plans’ entire provider networks undergo review when requesting service area expansions. As Mike Adelberg, senior director for FaegreBD Consulting, explained in Medicare Advantage News, this... http://faegrebdc.com/mike-adelberg-discusses-cmss-new-network-review-policy-in-medicare 09 Aug 2016 00:00:00:000 For the 12th consecutive year, Faegre Baker Daniels and FaegreBD Consulting partnered with Networks Financial Institute (NFI) and the Scott College of Business at Indiana State University to present the Insurance Public Policy Summit in Washington... http://faegrebdc.com/highlights-from-the-12th-annual-insurance-public-policy-summit 25 Mar 2016 00:00:00:000 The United Kingdom government will hold a referendum on June 23, 2016, determining whether the U.K. should remain in the European Union — of which it has been a member since 1973. Opinion polls suggest that the result of the referendum is far from... http://faegrebdc.com/brexit-implications-for-your-business-if-the-uk-leaves-the 24 Feb 2016 00:00:00:000 For insurance regulation, exciting days may be few and far between. But November 20, 2015, was one of those days. The United States Department of the Treasury’s Federal Insurance Office (FIO) and the United States Trade Representative (USTR) jointly... http://faegrebdc.com/game-change-covered-agreement-process-for-insurance-underway 23 Nov 2015 00:00:00:000 The Terrorism Risk Insurance Act (TRIA) is due for reauthorization in 2020, raising questions about how the revised law would treat acts of cyber terrorism. Libby Baney and Josh Andrews—senior director and director for FaegreBD Consulting, who lobby... http://faegrebdc.com/libby-baney-and-josh-andrews-urge-congress-to-study-cyber 16 Sep 2015 00:00:00:000 In June, the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) announced that it expects to finalize its small unmanned aircraft systems (UAS) rule, as required under the FAA Modernization and Reform Act of 2012 (FMRA), by June 2016. Until then, the primary... http://faegrebdc.com/faa-approves-1000th-authorization-for-commercial-use-of-drones 31 Aug 2015 00:00:00:000 The United States and the European Union are the world’s largest economies, accounting for more than 40 percent of world trade. The Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP), a series of trade negotiations that were mandated for... http://faegrebdc.com/ttip-eu-and-us-perspectives 18 Jun 2015 00:00:00:000 California recently took action to curb potentially discriminatory prescription drug co-pays. On May 21, the board of California’s state-run insurance exchange implemented prescription co-pay caps to address concerns that specialty drugs for chronic... http://faegrebdc.com/mike-adelberg-discusses-efforts-to-reduce-rx-discrimination-in-california 18 Jun 2015 00:00:00:000 As executive director of the Alliance for Safe Online Pharmacies (ASOP), Libby Baney, senior director in FaegreBD Consulting's health and biosciences team, works to curb the trend of consumers buying prescription drugs from illegal (or legally... http://faegrebdc.com/libby-baney-talks-online-rx-drugs-in-usa-today-special 03 Jun 2015 00:00:00:000 In its May edition, Inside Health Insurance Exchanges provided an update on the process of implementing the new EDGE server program for health insurance carriers. The EDGE server program is designed to collect, compile and analyze claims and... http://faegrebdc.com/mike-adelberg-updates-inside-health-insurance-exchanges-on-cms-new 01 Jun 2015 00:00:00:000 As detailed in the latest edition of Medicare Advantage News, the relationship between the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) and Medicare Advantage (MA) providers will soon be much more technologically streamlined. At the end of July... http://faegrebdc.com/mike-adelberg-tells-medicare-advantage-news-how-new-tech-will 28 May 2015 00:00:00:000 Faegre Baker Daniels and FaegreBD Consulting were pleased to partner again with Networks Financial Institute (NFI) and the Scott College of Business at Indiana State University in presenting the 11th Annual Insurance Public Policy Summit in... http://faegrebdc.com/industry-and-government-leaders-discuss-hot-topics-at-insurance-public 24 Mar 2015 00:00:00:000 Strategic advocate Libby Baney has rejoined FaegreBD Consulting as a senior director on the firm's health and biosciences team in Washington, D.C. Baney will create and implement public policy solutions for corporations, trade associations... http://faegrebdc.com/health-and-internet-policy-advocate-libby-baney-returns-to-faegrebd 09 Dec 2014 00:00:00:000