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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.

Why Your Urgent Care Bill Might Be Huge

Sallyann Johnson considers herself a pretty savvy health care consumer.

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HHS Pushes States To Negotiate Lower Obamacare Rates

Some analysts who have looked at health insurers’ proposed premiums for next year predict major increases for policies sold on state and federal health exchanges.

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Anthem Nears Deal to Acquire Cigna for $48 Billion

Anthem Inc. is nearing a deal to buy Cigna Corp. for more than $48 billion in a transaction that, alongside another recent proposed tie-up of rivals, would reduce the number of companies atop the U.S. health-insurance industry to three from five.

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Surprise! That Urgent Care Center May Send You A Big Bill (Just Like The ER)

Sallyann Johnson considers herself a pretty savvy health care consumer. When she fell and injured her hands and wrists, she didn’t head for an expensive emergency room, choosing an urgent care clinic near her Milwaukee home instead.

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This $153,000 Rattlesnake Bite is Everything Wrong with American Health Care

Earlier this month a guy named Todd Fassler was bitten by a rattlesnake in San Diego, KGTV San Diego reports. In itself this isn't terribly unusual — the CDC estimates that roughly 7,000 to 8,000 people a year get bitten by a venomous snake in the United States.

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Feds Say 7.5M Paid An Average Penalty Of $200 For Not Having Health Insurance

About 7.5 million Americans paid an average penalty of $200 for not having health insurance in 2014 — the first year most Americans were required to have coverage under the Affordable Care Act, the Internal Revenue Service said Tuesday.

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New Obamacare Fight Takes Aim at ‘Cadillac’ Tax

The Supreme Court fights over the Affordable Care Act may be over for now. But before you get too comfortable, there’s still plenty of fighting left to do.

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Obamacare Was Supposed To Kill Medicare Advantage. It Only Made It Stronger

Marilyn Tavenner is about to make an unprecedented move: From head of Medicare, to the nation’s top lobbyist for private insurers — in just six months.

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Why Expanded Health Care Access for the Undocumented Is Unlikely, Despite Benefits

Without another pool of potential enrollees, the Affordable Care Act likely will face enrollment stagnation -- and that could threaten the country's steadily falling uninsured rate.

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Head of Obama’s Health Care Rollout to Lobby for Insurers

Marilyn B. Tavenner, the former Obama administration official in charge of the rollout of HealthCare.gov, was chosen on Wednesday to be the top lobbyist for the nation’s health insurance industry.

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