When Turning 65, Consumers With Marketplace Plans Need To Be Vigilant In Choosing Health Coverage

Before the Affordable Care Act, older adults who couldn’t afford to buy their own health insurance would count the days until their 65th birthday, when Medicare would kick in. Now, 10,000 Americans hit that milestone every day, but for some who have coverage through the ACA’s insurance marketplaces, Medicare may not be the obvious next ...

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House Votes to Repeal Medicare Cost-Control Panel in ObamaCare

The House voted Tuesday to abolish a cost-cutting board under ObamaCare that has drawn criticism from members of both parties. Lawmakers voted 244-154 to abolish what is known as the Independent Payment Advisory Board (IPAB). The board is tasked with coming up with Medicare cuts if spending rises above a certain threshold, but has been criticized as ...

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Having Survived Court Ruling, Insurance Markets Still Face Economic Threats

Despite having survived a challenge in the U.S. Supreme Court, the federal government’s health insurance markets face weighty struggles as they try to keep prices under control, entice more consumers and encourage quality medical care. The government’s insurance markets – as well as more than a dozen run by states — have been operating for ...

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Nevada to Offer Transgender Health Coverage Starting July 1

State employees and covered family members will have health coverage for gender reassignment and other transgender procedures under a new insurance policy that takes effect July 1. The Public Employee Benefits Program board voted in November to remove language in the state’s self-funded and HMO plans that specifically excluded therapy for gender dysphoria. Brock Maylath, ...

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Lawsuit Accuses Las Vegas Surgeons, Hospitals of Health Care Fraud

A California lawsuit accuses two surgeons and four hospitals in Las Vegas of participating in a massive health care fraud scheme that involved implanting counterfeit spinal hardware into unsuspecting patients. The case, filed in February by dozens of insurance companies in Los Angeles County Superior Court, was recently unsealed. According to the lawsuit, California-based Spinal ...

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Richard Whitley to Direct Nevada Health and Human Services

Gov. Brian Sandoval on Monday appointed Richard Whitley director of the Department of Health and Human Services. Whitley, former administrator of the Division of Public and Behavioral Health, has been interim director of the huge state agency since February. “Richard has proven to be a steady and capable leader and I am pleased to make ...

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Nevada Insurance Chief Resigns; No Reason Given

Nevada Commissioner of Insurance Scott J. Kipper announced Thursday his resignation effective July 2. “It has been an honor to have served the state of Nevada as commissioner,” Kipper said. “I am proud of the division’s accomplishments. I am certain that the Division of Insurance will continue to serve the consumers, protecting the rights of ...

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High Court Upholds Health Law Subsidies

The Affordable Care Act survived its second Supreme Court test in three years, raising odds for its survival but by no means ending the legal and political assaults on it five years after it became law.

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Defeat By Deductible: Millennials Aren’t Hip To Health Insurance Lingo

Coinsurance? Premium tax credit? HMO and PPO? Swimming through the health insurance word soup can be frustrating for anyone. Even though I cover health, I couldn’t define “cost-sharing reduction plan” until I Googled it just now. And it seems I’m not the only clueless 20-something here. Young adults, who generally have little experience managing their ...

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Obamacare’s First Year Brought Health Insurance To Millions

WASHINGTON — Millions of people gained health insurance last year as Affordable Care Act benefits took effect, according to the first official accounting by the federal government. In 2014, 36 million U.S. residents, or 11.5 percent of the population, were uninsured on the day they were surveyed, a decline of 8.8 million people and 2.9 ...

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