Publications - O'Neill : O'Neill

Report

October 11, 2024

Access to Reproductive Health Care and the Growing Role of the Federal Courts

Op-Ed

August 22, 2024

A Win For Providers: Appellate Ruling Maintains Status Quo For No Surprises Act Arbitration Process

Op-Ed

August 19, 2024

2023 Data From The Independent Dispute Resolution Process: Select Providers Win Big

Op-Ed

August 13, 2024

New Lawsuit Threatens Affordable Care Act’s Employer Shared Responsibility Provisions

Op-Ed

July 19, 2024

Supreme Court Overrules Chevron Doctrine: Ripple Effects Across Health Care

Op-Ed

July 17, 2024

The Supreme Court Did Not Deliver ‘Wins’ for Reproductive Rights This Term

Report

July 17, 2024

Legitimizing Health Injustice Through Colorblindness

Op-Ed

July 15, 2024

Nursing Home Trade Associations Challenge Administration’s New Staffing Requirements

Op-Ed

June 28, 2024

Appellate Ruling Largely Preserves Access To Preventive Services, But Threats Loom

Op-Ed

June 21, 2024

Supreme Court Rejects Challenge To Abortion Medication, But At What Cost?

Op-Ed

June 21, 2024

Medication Abortion Litigation at the Supreme Court

Op-Ed

June 13, 2024

Lawsuit Challenges Administration Requirements For Fixed Indemnity Health Plans

Op-Ed

June 4, 2024

Split Decision: PE Firm Dismissed From FTC Challenge, But Litigation Continues

Op-Ed

May 22, 2024

Recent Developments In No Surprises Act Implementation

Op-Ed

May 14, 2024

Biden Administration Finalizes Rule Expanding Access To Health Coverage For DACA Recipients

Op-Ed

May 7, 2024

Another Administration Win In Medicare Drug Price Negotiation Lawsuits

Op-Ed

April 29, 2024

Biden Administration Finalizes Rule To Support Reproductive Health Care Privacy

Op-Ed

April 8, 2024

Medicare Can Cover Anti-Obesity Drugs for Heart Disease — But at What Cost?

Op-Ed

March 21, 2024

Setbacks For Pharmaceutical Industry In Challenges To Medicare Drug Price Negotiations

Op-Ed

February 10, 2024

Two Obscure Cases about Fish May Disempower Health Agencies

Op-Ed

January 19, 2024

The Medicare Drug Price Negotiation Program: Statutory And Agency Authority Challenges

Op-Ed

September 29, 2023

Amicus Briefs In Merck Lawsuit Defend Constitutionality Of Medicare Drug Price Negotiation Program

Op-Ed

September 20, 2023

Medicare’s Historic Prescription Drug Price Negotiations

Op-Ed

September 13, 2023

What’s The Nondelegation Doctrine Got To Do With Drug Price Negotiation?

Op-Ed

August 9, 2023

An Analysis of the Blizzard of Lawsuits to Block Drug-Price Negotiations

Op-Ed

July 28, 2023

Diverse Group Of Health Care Organizations Support Government’s Effort To Reverse Preventive Services Decision

Op-Ed

July 6, 2023

A Deep Dive Into Takings Clause Challenges To The Medicare Drug Price Negotiation Program

Op-Ed

June 17, 2023

The Supreme Court Delivers an Unexpected Win for Medicaid Recipients

Op-Ed

June 7, 2023

Current And Future Legal Attacks Against The Medicare Drug Price Negotiation Program

Op-Ed

April 7, 2023

Sweeping Ruling Blocks Preventive Services Coverage Requirements Nationwide

Op-Ed

December 19, 2022

Provider Groups Each Bring Third Lawsuit Challenging No Surprises Act

Report

November 30, 2022

Tobacco Industry Tries, But Fails, To Argue Federal Preemption in Fight To Ban Flavored Products

Op-Ed

November 10, 2022

What The 2022 Midterm Results Might Mean For Health Care

Op-Ed

October 31, 2022

Previewing The 2023 Open Enrollment Period

Op-Ed

October 12, 2022

IRS Revises Family Glitch Rule Ahead Of 2023 Open Enrollment Period

Op-Ed

October 11, 2022

EYE ON HEALTH REFORM: Congress Extends Enhanced ACA Subsidies

Op-Ed

September 28, 2022

Lawsuit Challenges Federal Copay Accumulator Policy

Op-Ed

September 27, 2022

Providers Sue (Again) Over No Surprises Act

Op-Ed

September 8, 2022

Court Holds That Key ACA Preventive Services Requirements Are Unconstitutional

Op-Ed

August 31, 2022

Fifth Circuit Rules In Franciscan Alliance, Other Section 1557 Litigation

Op-Ed

August 29, 2022

ACA Round-Up: $100 Million For Navigators, Approval Of Idaho Waiver, And More

Op-Ed

August 23, 2022

Fifth Circuit Upholds Ruling Greenlighting Non-ACA Arrangements

Op-Ed

August 22, 2022

Federal Officials Revise Approach To Arbitration Under No Surprises Act

Op-Ed

August 22, 2022

New No Surprises Act Guidance Builds On Recent Final Rule

Op-Ed

August 22, 2022

Breaking Down Biden’s New Nondiscrimination Rule

Op-Ed

August 15, 2022

Federal Officials Suspend Georgia’s Section 1332 Waiver

Op-Ed

August 10, 2022

New Antidiscrimination Rule Aims to Advance Health Equity and Ensure Protections for Transgender People

Op-Ed

August 9, 2022

Congress Poised To Extend Enhanced Marketplace Subsidies Through 2025

Op-Ed

August 3, 2022

Federal Officials Clarify Contraceptive Coverage Requirements

Op-Ed

August 2, 2022

Georgia Pushes Back On 1332 Waiver Suspension; Other 1332 Updates

Op-Ed

July 27, 2022

HHS Proposes Revised ACA Anti-Discrimination Rule

Op-Ed

July 25, 2022

The Latest Legal Challenge to the Affordable Care Act’s Preventive Services Guarantee

Op-Ed

July 15, 2022

Status Check On Federal Executive Action On Abortion Access

Op-Ed

July 11, 2022

EYE ON HEALTH REFORM: Supreme Court Ends Right To Abortion

Op-Ed

July 5, 2022

Health-Related Litigation And The Supreme Court: The 2021 Term (Part 2)

Op-Ed

June 27, 2022

The United States Supreme Court Ends the Constitutional Right to Abortion

Op-Ed

June 27, 2022

Dobbs: The Immediate Aftermath and the Coming Legal Morass

Op-Ed

June 22, 2022

Health-Related Litigation And The Supreme Court: The 2021 Term (Part 1)

Op-Ed

June 21, 2022

How the Courts Are Shaping Health Care as We Know It

Op-Ed

June 17, 2022

Insurers Can’t Vary Commissions Based On Enrollment Timing; Idaho, Minnesota Waiver Requests

Op-Ed

June 6, 2022

Latest In No Surprises Act Litigation And New Guidance

Op-Ed

June 3, 2022

ACA Round-Up: SUNSET Rule, Virginia’s Waiver, MLR Rebates, GAO On Short-Term Plans

Op-Ed

May 27, 2022

CMS Proposes New BHP Methodology For 2023

Op-Ed

May 13, 2022

FDA Proposes Action on Menthol Cigarettes and Flavored Cigars

Op-Ed

May 10, 2022

Latest Enrollment Reports, 1332 Waivers, and Recent Guidance

Op-Ed

May 6, 2022

Federal Officials Threaten To Suspend Georgia’s 1332 Waiver

Op-Ed

May 3, 2022

Final 2023 Payment Rule, Part 3: Risk Adjustment Program

Op-Ed

April 30, 2022

Final 2023 Payment Rule, Part 2: Standard Plans and Other Exchange Provisions

Op-Ed

April 29, 2022

Final 2023 Payment Rule, Part 1: Essential Health Benefits and Other Market Reforms

Report

April 27, 2022

Slouching Towards Deregulation: The Threat to Health Policy

Op-Ed

April 20, 2022

New Studies Highlight Impact of Fixing the Family Glitch

Op-Ed

April 11, 2022

Subsidy Cliff Looms; Fixing the Family Glitch

Op-Ed

April 6, 2022

Biden Administration Proposes To Fix the Family Glitch

Op-Ed

April 6, 2022

New Biden Executive Order Aims To Build on Coverage Gains

Op-Ed

April 4, 2022

Section 1332 Funding for 2022, Low-Income Special Enrollment Periods, and More

Op-Ed

March 28, 2022

Record-High Marketplace Enrollment, but Failure To Extend Subsidies Could Impact Consumers

Op-Ed

March 17, 2022

Health Care Providers Fight Arbitration Rule in No Surprises Act

Op-Ed

March 15, 2022

ACA Round-Up: SUNSET Rule Delayed, 2023 Materials, RADV, and More

Op-Ed

March 7, 2022

HHS Issues Guidance To Help Protect Transgender Youth

Op-Ed

February 24, 2022

Court Sets Aside Key Parts Of No Surprises Act Rule

Op-Ed

February 22, 2022

Further Guidance On Covering At-Home Tests For COVID-19

Op-Ed

February 18, 2022

Recent Guidance To Implement the No Surprises Act

Op-Ed

February 16, 2022

The Six Provider Lawsuits Over The No Surprises Act: Latest Developments

Op-Ed

February 14, 2022

Record ACA Enrollment; 2023 Payment Rule

Op-Ed

January 31, 2022

Marketplace Enrollment Reaches New Record of 14.5 Million

Op-Ed

January 18, 2022

ACA Round-Up: Updated Preventive Services, MLR Rebates, and More

Op-Ed

January 14, 2022

Marketplace Enrollment Hits Record 14.2 Million As Deadline Looms

Op-Ed

January 12, 2022

Network Adequacy Standards for QHPs and More Guidance for 2023

Op-Ed

January 11, 2022

Fixing the Family Glitch and Other Priorities

Op-Ed

January 11, 2022

Insurers and Plans Must Cover At-Home Tests for COVID-19

Journal Article

January 3, 2022

Proposed 2023 Payment Rule, Part 3: Risk Adjustment Program

Journal Article

December 30, 2021

Proposed 2023 Payment Rule, Part 2: Standard Plans And Other Exchange Provisions

Journal Article

December 29, 2021

Proposed 2023 Payment Rule, Part 1: Essential Health Benefits And Other Market Reforms

Journal Article

December 13, 2021

House Advances Build Back Better Act

Journal Article

December 9, 2021

Marketplace Enrollment Outpaces Prior Years

Op-Ed

December 8, 2021

ACA Section 1557 As A Tool For Anti-Racist Health Care

Journal Article

December 6, 2021

Doctors, Air Ambulance Operators Challenge Interpretation Of No Surprises Act

Journal Article

November 23, 2021

House Passes Build Back Better Act

Op-Ed

November 20, 2021

Unpacking Colorado’s New Guidance on Transgender Health

Journal Article

November 17, 2021

First HealthCare.gov Enrollment Report; More Basic Health Plan Money For MN, NY

Journal Article

November 12, 2021

CMS Announces 60-Day Comment Period On Georgia’s Section 1332 Waiver

Journal Article

November 10, 2021

ACA Round-Up (11/10/21): Risk Adjustment Changes, Premium Credits, Section 1332, And More

Journal Article

November 9, 2021

ACA Litigation Round-Up (11/9/21): What’s Resolved, What’s On Hold, And What’s Still Moving?

Journal Article

November 8, 2021

PBM Oversight, Insulin Cost-Sharing Provisions Among Build Back Better Act Updates

Op-Ed

October 29, 2021

New Build Back Better Framework: Extended ACA Enhancements, No Medicare Rx Drug Negotiation Authority

Op-Ed

October 28, 2021

Premiums Will Drop, ARPA Savings Continue As 2022 Open Enrollment Period Draws Near

Op-Ed

September 7, 2021

New Special Enrollment Period for Low-Income People Could Boost Coverage

Op-Ed

August 16, 2021

Two New Lawsuits Challenge Insurer Transparency Rule

Op-Ed

August 10, 2021

How Insurers Can Advance Health Equity Under the Affordable Care Act

Op-Ed

August 9, 2021

ACA Action Continues as Law Is Upheld

Op-Ed

June 22, 2021

Supreme Court Rebuffs Cost-Sharing Reduction Payment Appeal; $20 Million For State-Based Marketplaces

Journal Article

June 14, 2021

American Rescue Plan Increases ACA Enrollment

Op-Ed

May 20, 2021

Fixing The ACA’s Family Glitch

Report

May 17, 2021

The Affordable Care Act in the Biden Era: Identifying Federal Priorities for Administrative Action

Journal Article

April 12, 2021

The American Rescue Plan Expands The ACA

Journal Article

February 8, 2021

Biden And New Congress Tackle COVID-19, ACA

Journal Article

November 23, 2020

The Election; The ACA At The Supreme Court

Op-Ed

November 5, 2020

Symposium: No Injury Means No Standing

Journal Article

September 14, 2020

A Hot Summer Brings More ACA Litigation

Journal Article

August 1, 2020

ACA Litigation: Politics Pursued Through Other Means

Journal Article

July 20, 2020

Contraceptive Mandate, ACA Final Rules, and COVID-19

Journal Article

May 11, 2020

Risk Corridors, COVID-19, and the ACA

Journal Article

March 19, 2020

The ACA and the Courts: Litigation’s Effects on the Law’s Implementation and Beyond

Op-Ed

March 13, 2020

Expanding Health Coverage and Access to Respond Quickly to Coronavirus

Journal Article

March 9, 2020

The ACA at the Supreme Court and Beyond

Op-Ed

February 27, 2020

Addressing Surprise Billing by Setting Payment Standards for Out-of-Network Providers

Journal Article

January 13, 2020

Texas Ruling Brings More ACA Uncertainty

Journal Article

November 12, 2019

Health Reform on the Campaign Trail

Report

October 25, 2019

States Seek Greater Control, Cost-Savings by Converting to State-Based Marketplaces

Report

October 25, 2019

Assessing Responses to Increased Provider Consolidation in Six Markets: Final Report

Op-Ed

September 25, 2019

Road to Universal Coverage: Addressing the Premium Affordability Gap

Journal Article

September 16, 2019

Texas Arguments Lead Heavy ACA Action

Journal Article

July 8, 2019

ACA Heads Back to Supreme Court

May 13, 2019

Litigation Continues; Payment Rule Arrives

Journal Article

March 11, 2019

New Year Brings New ACA Developments

Journal Article

January 14, 2019

Court Rules Individual Mandate, Entire ACA Unconstitutional

Journal Article

November 13, 2018

Back In (Regulatory) Action

Journal Article

September 10, 2018

A Hot Health Policy Summer

Op-Ed

January 26, 2017

ACA Repeal Efforts Would Impact State Laws, Too

Report

January 31, 2014

Implementing the Affordable Care Act: The State of the States

Op-Ed

January 8, 2014

Update: State Decisions on the Health Insurance Policy Cancellations Fix

Report

July 25, 2013

Nondiscrimination Under the Affordable Care Act

Report

July 11, 2013

Implementing the Affordable Care Act: Key Design Decisions for State-Based Exchanges

Op-Ed

July 1, 2013

Will New Laws in States with Federally Run Health Insurance Marketplaces Hinder Outreach?

Op-Ed

April 5, 2013

New Guidance: Federal Regulators Allow “Collaborative Arrangements” for ACA Enforcement

Report

February 1, 2013

Implementing the Affordable Care Act: State Action on the 2014 Market Reforms

Report

October 25, 2012

Selling Health Insurance Across State Lines: An Assessment of State Laws and Implications for Improving Choice and Affordability of Coverage

Report

October 9, 2012

Child-Only Coverage and the Affordable Care Act: Lessons for Policymakers

Report

September 25, 2012

Monitoring State Implementation of the Affordable Care Act in 10 States: Rate Review

Report

August 31, 2012

Coverage of Colonoscopies Under the Affordable Care Act’s Prevention Benefit

Report

March 25, 2012

Implementing the Affordable Care Act: State Action on Early Market Reforms