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.
An Obama administration proposal to reduce Medicare payments for many prescription drugs has run into sharp bipartisan criticism, suggesting that it is easier to diagnose the problem of high prices than to solve it.
State legislators and advocates are racing to get federal approval in the waning months of the Obama administration for a proposal to allow immigrants living in the U.S. illegally onto the California insurance exchange.
President Obama's signature health care law is called the Affordable Care Act, but just how affordable remains an open question even this long after its enactment.
Two Republicans today unveiled a proposal that could revamp the current Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA) commercial health insurance rules and programs rather than completely replacing all of PPACA.
Bolstered by the federal health care reform law, the number of low-income kids getting full health coverage in California continues to grow, as it does in the nation as a whole, a recent study found.
Most Americans enrolled in health plans through the Affordable Care Act are happy with their coverage, despite persistent attacks on the health law by Republicans, including presumptive presidential nominee Donald Trump.
Obamacare plan customers should brace for sticker shock when the administration posts insurers' preliminary rate requests for 2017 this week.
President Barack Obama’s administration is approving California’s plan to restructure health-plan taxes to generate money for Medi-Cal, which provides health coverage to the poor.
What a difference a bad year makes. Executives at UnitedHealth Group initially voiced optimism about their prospects on the Affordable Care Act's insurance exchanges. The nation's largest health insurer foresaw a big role for individual plans in its business model.
When Sienna D'Andrea was just two months old, her mother Raquel got the shock of her life."The cardiologist said, 'Go home, pack your bags, your daughter needs surgery today.'"