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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.

Surprise Insurance Fees Often Follow Medical Emergencies

Recovering from a medical procedure is always a challenge, but getting hit with unexpected insurance fees can add financial hardship to the process.

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Insurers Under Pressure to Improve Margins on Health Plans

After most health insurers racked up financial losses on Affordable Care Act plans in 2014, many companies’ results for last year worsened, creating heavy pressure to improve performance this year.

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Costs, Changes Led Obamacare Enrollment to Fall Short of Earlier Estimates

The number of people who signed up for health insurance for 2016 on the state and federal exchanges was up to 40% lower than earlier government and private estimates, which some say is evidence that the plans are too expensive and that people would rather pay a penalty than buy them.

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Surge in Medicare Advantage Sign-Ups Confounds Expectations

Five years into Medicare spending cuts that were supposed to devastate private Medicare options for older Americans, enrollment in private insurance plans through Medicare has shot up by more than 50 percent, confounding experts and partisans alike and providing possible lessons for the Affordable Care Act’s insurance exchanges.

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Farm Contractors Balk At Obamacare Requirements

Many contractors who provide farm labor and must now offer workers health insurance are complaining loudly about the cost in their already low-margin business.

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Insurers Back Proposed California Health Plan Tax

Most of California's health insurance companies said Wednesday they're supporting Gov. Jerry Brown's plan to restructure a tax on health plans.

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California Insurance Department Is Investigating Zenefits

Zenefits’s battle with state regulators rages on. The California Insurance Department said on Thursday that it’s been investigating the human resources software company since last year over its business practices.

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2016 Obamacare Enrollment Tops Expectations at 12.7 Million

About 12.7 million Americans enrolled in private health insurance through the federal and state marketplaces for 2016, the Obama administration said Thursday

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Senate Report: Illegal Immigrants benefited From Up to $750M in ObamaCare Subsidies

Illegal immigrants and individuals with unclear legal status wrongly benefited from up to $750 million in ObamaCare subsidies and the government is struggling to recoup the money, according to a new Senate report obtained by Fox News.

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Gov’t Report: 8 States Had Significant Drop in Uninsured

Eight states saw a significant drop last year in the number of residents going without health insurance, according to a government report out Tuesday that has implications for the presidential campaign.

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