Compliance
This section focuses on health care compliance and regulations – both national and state – including the ACA. It includes changes in health care law, regulation, and court decisions and their impact on health insurance professionals, employers, and individuals.
The federal Consumer Financial Protection Bureau on Tuesday issued new regulations barring medical debts from American credit reports, enacting a major new consumer protection just days before President Joe Biden is set to leave office. The rules ban credit agencies from including medical debts on consumers’ credit reports and prohibit lenders from considering medical information ...
President Joe Biden has signed two bills that will ease some Affordable Care Act health coverage reporting requirements for employers. One is the Paperwork Burden Reduction Act, and the other is the Employer Reporting Improvement Act bill. The new laws affect the Form 1095-B and Form 1095-C notices that employers use to tell employees and the Internal Revenue Service about ...
Judges have been wrestling with state efforts to regulate PBMs, what health plans have to cover, and disputes over medical bills.
Stripped out of the final bill is a provision to prevent the 2.8% Medicare pay cut to physicians.
Members of the Senate voted unanimously Tuesday to approve two House bills that could make Affordable Care Act health coverage reporting requirements a little easier for employers to meet.
Earlier versions of the bill included provisions that would have limited an employer to including only $10,200 in spending on employee-only coverage and $27,500 in spending for family coverage coverage from taxable income.
The PBM Act would make CVS, Cigna and UnitedHealth — and any other companies that own health insurers or PBMs — sell pharmacy assets.
Republicans on Capitol Hill have sent a preliminary offer to Democrats for numerous health care policies to be tacked onto the continuing resolution that lawmakers are moving to complete before the Dec. 20 deadline to avert a government shutdown.
Members of state legislatures are looking for a way to regulate self-funded employer plans. The National Council of Insurance Legislators held a general session on the impact of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 on state health insurance regulation last month in San Antonio, during NCOIL’s annual meeting. Federal law leaves regulation of ...
Congressional Democrats have privately proposed a deal to Republicans that would extend expiring Affordable Care Act subsidies by one year, with lawmakers worried by new estimates that 2.2 million people will otherwise lose health coverage, according to five people who spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss the proposal. The move accompanied a broader ...