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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.

New Workplace Laws: Employers Health Care Mandate, Rules for Contractors and a Medi-Cal ‘List of Shame’

Amid a public debate over the growing gap between rich and poor, major new laws affecting California businesses this year are squarely aimed at improving the lot of low-wage workers.

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New Rules to Limit Tactics on Hospitals’ Fee Collections

The Obama administration has adopted sweeping new rules to discourage nonprofit hospitals from using aggressive tactics to collect payments from low-income patients.

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GOP Courts Warren to Repeal Medical Device Tax

Republicans are looking to an unlikely ally in their bid to repeal a controversial piece of ObamaCare: Sen. Elizabeth Warren.

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Most Marketplace Customers Have New Filing Requirements This Tax Season

In addition to the normal thrills and chills of the income tax filing season, this year consumers will have the added excitement of figuring out how the health law figures in their 2014 taxes.

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Workers Paying More for Health Insurance, But Getting Fewer Benefits

Although the Affordable Care Act has not led to soaring insurance costs, as many critics claimed it would, the law hasn't provided much relief to American workers either, according to a new study of employer-provided health benefits.

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Could Funding Woes Imperil Future of State-Run Exchanges?

Starting this month, state-run insurance exchanges are legally required by the healthcare reform law to be financially self-sustaining.

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“America’s Bitter Pill” – 60 Minutes Looks at Obamacare

This month marks one year since health insurance coverage under the Affordable Care Act began, and from the president's point of view: so far, so good.

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Health Premiums Rise More Slowly, but Workers Shoulder More of Cost

When Charlotte Alger, 25, was working at a Home Depot just outside Boston last year, she said she earned $10.75 an hour working on the sales floor in the woodworking department.

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Bill on Full-Time Workweek Sets Up White House Showdown

The House is expected to approve Thursday a bill that would increase the number of hours an employee has to work before the employer must offer health insurance under the Affordable Care Act.

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Affordable Care Act Will Play Major Role in Tax Filing

We had to have this talk sooner or later. Tax-filing time is around the corner, and this season will be the first in which the Affordable Care Act figures heavily.

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