Permitting states to draw the essential health benefits package from insurance policies ... Normally, HHS would have issued a proposed rule, solicited public comment, and then taken account ...

Under the health law, states can continue to impose coverage requirements not included in the essential benefits package – but they would be responsible for paying insurers the additional costs ...

The much anticipated Institute of Medicine Report on essential health benefits ... with the federal package, not significantly more or less generous, and are subject to public input.

The nurses lobby didn’t offer specific suggestions on how public exchanges ... but they see a package of essential benefits as critical to any new or amended health reform package.

As part of a Covid-19 relief package passed in March 2020, states were barred from kicking people off Medicaid during the public health emergency in exchange for additional federal matching funds.

Essential health benefits ... approved a law that based the state's updated EHB package on the benefits provided by the North Dakota Public Employees Retirement System's grandfathered preferred ...