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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.

Kaiser Raises Record $4.4 Billion in White-Hot Hospital Bond Market

Kaiser Permanente raised $4.4 billion through a series of three bond offerings this month.

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Nevada Health Panel Approves Insulin Price Disclosure Bill

A proposal aiming to force pharmaceutical companies to disclose how they set insulin prices cleared its first hurdle at the Nevada Legislature on Wednesday, without a provision that sought a price cap on insulin.

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CMS Gives States Until 2022 To Meet Medicaid Standards of Care

The Trump administration has given states three extra years to carry out plans for helping elderly and disabled people receive Medicaid services without being forced to go into nursing homes.

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CBO to Issue Cost Estimate of House Health-Care Bill Within Two Weeks

The Congressional Budget Office is planning to release the week of May 22 an assessment of how the health-care legislation that the House just passed will impact federal spending.

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Aetna Exiting All ACA Insurance Marketplaces in 2018

Aetna will complete its withdrawal from Affordable Care Act insurance exchanges for 2018, announcing on Wednesday that lingering financial losses and uncertainty about the marketplaces’ future was prompting it to exit two final states.

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Trump Pushes Senate Republicans to Act on Health Care Bill

President Donald Trump urged Senate Republicans on Sunday to "not let the American people down," as the contentious debate over overhauling the U.S. health care systems shifts to Congress' upper chamber, where a vote is potentially weeks, if not months, away.

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Who Wins and Who Loses in the Latest GOP Health Care Bill

The American Health Care Act, set for a House vote Thursday, would transform the nation’s health insurance system and create a new slate of winners and losers.

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McCarthy: “I have no problems” if Senate Writes Its Own Healthcare Bill

House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) on Monday said he doesn't have a problem if the Senate wants to write its own healthcare bill.

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Survey Reveals How Many Doctors Receive Money, Gifts From Drugmakers

About half of U.S. doctors received payments from the pharmaceutical and medical device industries in 2015, amounting to $2.4 billion, a new study reports.

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Anthem Asks Supreme Court To Review Blocked Cigna Deal

Health insurer Anthem is not ready to give up its $48-billlion bid to buy rival Cigna and now hopes to find a favorable audience in the U.S. Supreme Court.

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