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.
One of these days, employers will experience the full effects of Obamacare - but not yet.
Obamacare-loving California led the nation in embracing the health-care law, and in enrolling its citizens for 2014 coverage.
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?
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.
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.
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.
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.
Obamacare enrollment passed the government's official projection for 2015 despite about 200,000 immigrants losing coverage because they couldn't prove legal residency.
Single-Payer healthcare has long been the political pipe dream of the left, but there's a nearly identical system that could actually happen.
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.