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.
The House on Wednesday passed legislation that would repeal much of ObamaCare and defund Planned Parenthood for one year, sending the measure to President Obama’s desk.
The health-care industry seemed to have been among the biggest winners in the $1.1 trillion Omnibus appropriations act for fiscal 2016 signed Dec. 18 by President Barack Obama. But Fitch Ratings has a different take on that.
Martin Shkreli, the former hedge-fund manager turned pharmaceutical CEO who was arrested this month, has been described as a sociopath and worse. In reality, he’s a brasher and larger version of what others in finance and in corporate suites do all the time.
The more drugs people take and the sicker they are, the more likely they are to experience problems paying for prescription medicines–or to forgo them altogether because of cost.
Two years after the Affordable Care Act began requiring most Americans to have health insurance, 10.5 million who are eligible to buy coverage through the law’s new insurance exchanges were still uninsured this fall, according to the Obama administration.
California officials never anticipated how many people would sign up for state-run health insurance under Obamacare.
The Internal Revenue Service has extended some Affordable Care Act reporting deadlines to help companies meet the requirements.
The year 2015 was undoubtedly one of seismic change for the health insurance industry, with no shortage of game-changing headlines and issues.
Medicare officials say researchers and the public will now have an easier way to analyze spending on costly prescription drugs.
Americans want to know what the next U.S. president will do to lower their rising healthcare costs, a priority shared by Republican and Democratic voters and second only to keeping the country safe, according to a recent Reuters/Ipsos poll.