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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.

A Last-Minute Reprieve For Some Consumers On California Exchange

Covered California, the state’s insurance exchange, announced Friday that it was extending its enrollment deadline until Feb. 6 for people who had officially begun the process of signing up by Sunday.

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Obama Administration Works to Fix Health Insurance Co-Ops

More than half of 23 operating state co-ops failed after getting about $1.17 billion in federal loans

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Republicans Say Government Mismanaged Health Care Co-ops

Republican senators charged Thursday that the Obama administration had missed warning signs of financial distress at nonprofit health insurance cooperatives that failed last year

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Health Insurers Grilled Over Merger

The wary and aggressive tenor of questions at a state hearing set a high bar for approval of the proposed $6.8 billion purchase of health insurance company HealthNet by Centene.

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New Federal Standards For Marketplace Plans May Reduce Out-Of-Pocket Spending

Some consumers who buy coverage on the health insurance marketplaces in 2017 could see their out-of-pocket costs drop significantly under a federal proposal to create standardized plans

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Federal Healthcare Spending Tops Social Security For The First Time

Spending on federal healthcare programs outpaced spending on Social Security for the first time in 2015, according to an expansive report from the congressional budget scorekeeper released Monday.

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CBO Reduces Projection for 2016 ACA Exchange Enrollment by 8M

CBO previously projected that about 15 million U.S. residents would receive subsidies this year, but it has revised that projection to about 11 million individual

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Enrollment Growth in Obamacare Health Insurance Slower Than Expected

The nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office has lowered its estimate of how many people will get coverage through the law in 2016.

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Consumers Cut Costs By Combining Limited Coverage Health plans, Despite Penalty Risks

In 2016, the penalty is $695 per adult and $347.50 per child, or 2.5 percent of household income, whichever is greater.

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A Lifesaving Flight, With A Price Tag of $56,000

Butte is an old mining town tucked in the southwest corner of Montana with a population of about 34,000. Locals enjoy many things you can’t find elsewhere — campgrounds a quick drive from downtown and gorgeous mountain ranges nearby. But in Butte, as in much of rural America, advanced medical care is absent. People in Butte ...

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