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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.

U.S. Health-Care Spending is on the Rise Again

The national medical bill may be back to growing faster than gross domestic product. After five years of historically slow growth, new data show U.S. health-care spending accelerated significantly in 2014.

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IRS Delays Penalties on Businesses That Reimburse Workers for Health Insurance

The Internal Revenue Service will delay imposing excise taxes on small businesses that reimburse their employees for the cost of buying individual health insurance policies.

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Insurance Industry May Find Spot on Nevada Health Exchange Board

The Silver State Exchange, the agency tasked with governing the state's subsidized health insurance marketplace, is pushing for overhauls that could give the insurance industry a seat on its board and cement the federal government's increasing control over the agency.

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Millions in Health Coverage Gap Seek to Avoid Tax Penalty

Stephanie Daugherty earns too much from her part-time job at a doctor's office to qualify for Medicaid, but not enough to comfortably afford one of the health plans for sale through the federally-run insurance exchange that Texas and many states use.

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Enrollment Surges but 200,000 Immigrants to Lose Coverage

Obamacare enrollment passed the government's official projection for 2015 despite about 200,000 immigrants losing coverage because they couldn't prove legal residency.

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America’s back-Door to Single-Payer: All-Payer Rate Setting

Single-Payer healthcare has long been the political pipe dream of the left, but there's a nearly identical system that could actually happen.

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Bill Aims to End Limited Health Coverage for Large Companies

Large employers could no longer provide workers with minimal health plans that provide less than 60 percent of the cost of essential care, under legislation introduced this week by Assemblyman Roger Hernández.

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Advocates Press For Uninsured To Get Special Enrollment Option After They See Tax Penalties

Sunday's deadline for signing up for health insurance on the exchanges will have long passed by the time many people file their taxes this March and April.

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Employee or Contractor? Health Care Law Raises Stakes

If you work for a living, do you know who your boss is? And if you run a business, do you know who's on your payroll?

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Feds, States Extend Obamacare Enrollment Period for Some

Americans who couldn't enroll in federal Obamacare insurance plans over the weekend because of computer glitches or long waits will now have until next Sunday to sign up, federal officials announced early Monday.

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