Month: October 2014
With Election Day less than two weeks away, a once-popular ballot measure that would allow the state's insurance commissioner to reject rate hikes proposed by health insurers appears to be headed toward defeat, a new poll shows.
Aiming to contain health care costs, a growing number of employers and insurers are adopting a strategy that limits how much they'll pay for certain medical services such as knee replacements, lab tests and complex imaging.
This year, the big challenge for officials behind the Affordable Care Act may not be making the website work but getting customers to come shop in the first place.
The Internal Revenue Service said that the sequestration process could have an impact on the amount that certain small tax-exempt employers receive on the refundable portion of the Small Business Health Care Tax Credit.
Insurance consultants were shocked recently to learn that Obama administration rules allow large companies to offer 2015 worker health plans that don't include hospital benefits.
The Obama administration began notifying consumers on Wednesday that they should return to the federal health insurance marketplace to renew coverage for next year.
Right about now, some low-income people who just barely qualified for subsidies on the health insurance marketplace are starting to worry: What if my income for the year ends up below the poverty level?
Kaiser Permanente was the only HMO to earn a top four-star rating for providing recommended care, according to California's latest report card on insurers and medical groups.
The Ebola epidemic in Africa and fears of it spreading in the U.S. have turned the nation's attention to the federal government's front-line public health agency: The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).
California's health insurance exchange hired two outside firms for $13.4 million to address long wait times for consumers calling about their Obamacare coverage.