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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.

Dems Aim to Punt Vote on ObamaCare Taxes

Health-care companies are making a last-minute push to delay ObamaCare taxes as part of a year-end government funding deal, but they face resistance from Democrats who want to punt the issue until next year when they control the House.

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Trump Administration Seeks Public Feedback On How To Fix HIPAA Privacy Rules

Among regulations in healthcare, perhaps none is more well known—or loathed—than HIPAA.

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How Can We Lower Healthcare Costs? Key GOP Senator Seeks Ideas

Senate health committee Chair Lamar Alexander (R-Tenn.) plans to have his panel next year work on legislation to address high healthcare costs.

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A Groundbreaking Antitrust Lawsuit is Ensnaring the Generic Drug Industry

It’s the biggest lawsuit you might not know anything about: Generic drug companies stand accused of running a “cartel” that rigged the market and fixed prices, costing patients and taxpayers, according to a complaint that has been joined by almost every state’s attorney general.

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Incoming Dem Chairman Open to Hearing on ‘Medicare for All’

The incoming chairman of the powerful Ways and Means Committee, Rep. Richard Neal (D-Mass.), said Tuesday that he is open to holding hearings on "Medicare for all" next year.

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Lower Utilization Dampened Health Spending Growth in 2017

The rate of U.S. healthcare spending growth slowed from 2016 to 2017, driven by reduced use and intensity of hospital care, physician services and prescription drugs, according to the new annual report by CMS' Office of the Actuary published in Health Affairs. 

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Blue Shield’s Trims To Out-Of-State Coverage Give Some Californians The Blues

Denise Roberts is still coping with complications from a life-threatening bout of Valley Fever three years ago that claimed part of a lung. Roberts, who lives in Doyle, Calif., a tiny rural community near the Nevada border, typically drives to Reno for the care she needs. Specialists in her own state, she said, are too far away.

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Judge Adds New Hurdle to CVS-Aetna Merger

A federal judge could throw a wrench into the mega-merger between health giants CVS and Aetna.

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Poll: 6 in 10 Say Higher Health Care Premiums are ‘Major Concern’

Six in 10 U.S. adults say they worry about having to pay higher health insurance premiums, according to a Gallup poll.

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‘Public Charge’ Would Hit California’s Economy, Study Says

Rules that could give immigrants reason to avoid enrolling in health safety net programs would deliver a blow to California’s economy, costing the state thousands of jobs and billions of dollars in economic output, a new study concluded.

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