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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.

Employers Catch a Break on Updated Benefit Summaries

Employers will have plenty of time to comply with upcoming regulatory changes to the annual summary of health care benefits and coverages they must distribute to employees, according to a U.S. Department of Labor notice.

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Health Care Fades Into The Background Of 2016 Election Cycle

With Obamacare battles largely behind us, presidential candidates in 2016 seem focused on other issues.

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Legislation Would Shield FSA, H.S.A. Contributions From ACA Excise Tax

Group health plans would be much less likely to trigger the health care reform law's so-called Cadillac tax on costly premiums under legislation introduced in the U.S. House of Representatives.

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Why Obamacare’s Tax Credits Failed Small Businesses

It’s as if the Affordable Care Act’s tax credits for small businesses were designed to fail: Six years after Obamacare was enacted, few companies are taking advantage of tax breaks that were supposed to make health insurance more affordable.

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Long-Term Care Insurance: Less Bang, More Buck

Mary Julia Klimenko thought she was prudent 20 years ago when she invested in a long-term care insurance policy, one she believed would help pay for the care she’d need as she aged.

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Coinsurance Trend Means Seniors Likely To Face Higher Out-Of-Pocket Drug Costs

Medicare beneficiaries may get dinged with higher prescription drug bills this year because more than half of covered drugs in standalone plans require them to pay a percentage of the cost rather than a flat fee, a new analysis found.

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Drug-Company Payments Mirror Doctors’ Brand-Name Prescribing

Doctors have long disputed the accusation that the payments they receive from pharmaceutical companies have any relationship to how they prescribe drugs.

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Health Insurance Gains Due to Obama’s Law, Not Economy

There's growing evidence that most of the dramatic gain in the number of Americans with health care coverage is due to President Barack Obama's law, and not the gradual recovery of the nation's economy.

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A Court Case That Could Hurt Obamacare’s Health

Just when you thought Obamacare was past legal challenges.

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Big Pharma Dumps Big Money Into Fight Against Prescription Drug Measure

Pharmaceutical companies continue to pour cash into their campaign to defeat a California ballot measure that would limit prescription drug prices, a new campaign finance analysis shows.

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