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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.

Governors Push Bipartisan National Health Care Compromise

A bipartisan group of governors working to strike compromise on hot-button policy issues took on the question of health care on Friday.

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Ding Dong! The Obamacare Tax Penalty Is(n’t) Dead

Rick, Patrick and Michael recently commented on Covered California’s Facebook page, urging others to ditch health insurance.

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Buffett-Dimon Health Venture to Go Beyond Just Squeezing the Middlemen

Warren Buffett’s health-care venture has far more ambitious plans than simply squeezing middlemen for better prices, the billionaire said.

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HHS Deletes Budget Request for $11.5 Billion in Risk-Corridor Funding

The HHS walked back a request for more than $11.5 billion to fund the Affordable Care Act's risk-corridor program after health insurers suing for those payments said the budget item strengthened their cases. 

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HHS Secretary Alex Azar’s Reform Mantra: ‘Common Sense’

Department of Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar said that he's adopted a mantra as he looks to potential insurance and healthcare reform: "common sense." 

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Trump Administration Pulls Back From Key Medicare Goals

The Trump administration is putting the brakes on a key set of goals created by the Obama administration to dramatically reduce the cost of the clunky and overpriced U.S. health-care system. 

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Trump Administration Proposes Rule To Loosen Curbs On Short-Term Health Plans

Insurers will again be able to sell short-term health insurance good for up to 12 months under a proposed rule released Tuesday by the Trump administration that could further roil the marketplace.

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FDA Head Vows To Tackle High Drug Prices And Drugmakers ‘Gaming The System’

Food and Drug Administration Commissioner Scott Gottlieb said he will do everything “within my lane” to combat high drug prices and that he sees drug companies “gaming the system to try to block competition” in a multitude of ways in the marketplace.

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Albertsons to Buy Rite Aid

The owner of Safeway and other grocery brands is buying the drugstore chain Rite Aid as retailers continue to plunge deeper into health care and adjust to swiftly changing shopping habits.

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In An Effort To Curb Drug Costs, States Advance Bills To Prod Feds On Importation

Norm Thurston is a “free-market guy” — a conservative health economist in Republican-run Utah who rarely sees the government’s involvement in anything as beneficial.

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