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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.

Other States Closely Watching Fate of California’s Drug Price Transparency Bill

Insurers, hospitals and health advocates are waiting for Gov. Jerry Brown to deal the drug lobby a rare defeat, by signing legislation that would force pharmaceutical companies to justify big price hikes on drugs in California.

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Price Resignation Sets Off Frenzy of Speculation Over Replacement

The resignation of embattled Health and Human Services Secretary Tom Price for using private jets for government travel is setting off a frenzy of speculation about who will replace him.

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Why Medi-Cal Enrollees Gain Coverage But Not Broad Access To Doctors

Medi-Cal enrollee Michael Gonzalez worked for months in 2015 to get to the Sutter specialists who ultimately treated his thyroid cancer, so he felt undermined this summer when Sutter Health announced that its primary-care doctors would no longer be serving 10,000 adult patients in Sacramento and Placer counties.

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FDA Chief Says Agency Will Take Action To Lower Drug Prices

The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) will take action to deal with the rising cost of prescription drugs, the agency’s head said on Monday.

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Zenefits to Exit BOR Business, Work With Agencies to License its Technology

The San Francisco-based firm’s existing book of 7,000 accounts will be transferred to OneDigital, an Atlanta-based brokerage, as Zenefits undergoes a transformation “to embracing the broker community and partnering with them in a pretty significant way,” Zenefits Chairman and CEO Jay Fulcher says.

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CBO Projects Graham-Cassidy Would Reduce Spending And Coverage

Late in the day on September 25, 2017, the Congressional Budget Office and Joint Committee on Taxation staff released their report on the Graham-Cassidy bill. Their analysis was apparently of an earlier version of the bill than the one released on September 24, 2017, but the provisions described and analyzed in the CBO report are virtually the same.

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7.5 Million Californians Would Have Lost Coverage Under Latest Obamacare Repeal Effort, State Health Insurance Exchange Says

Californians who get their health coverage on the individual market could face dire consequences under the current Republican effort to dismantle the Affordable Care Act, warned a new analysis released Monday by Covered California, the state's health insurance exchange.

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When a Drug Coupon Helps You But Hurts Fellow Citizens

It’s completely rational for you to use coupons to reduce the cost of your brand-name drug purchase.

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Trust in Health Insurers Sinks to an All-Time Low

Health system executives' and physicians' trust in health insurers has sunk to an all-time low, a new survey shows. 

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Sanders Slams GOP, Touts Universal Health Care in California

Sen. Bernie Sanders pilloried Republican efforts to overhaul the health care system and touted his own Medicare for all plan Friday before an effusive California audience that welcomed him on stage with chants of "Run, Bernie, Run!"

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