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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 Drugs Cost So Much

ELI LILLY charges more than $13,000 a month for Cyramza, the newest drug to treat stomach cancer.

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Aetna Backs Gilead’s Hepatitis C Treatment, Gets Discount

Aetna Inc, the third-largest U.S. health insurer, said it negotiated a discount with Gilead Sciences Inc for its hepatitis C treatment and will offer it as the preferred choice to nearly 11 million commercial customers.

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California Rejects UnitedHealth’s Bid to Sell Obamacare Statewide

California's Obamacare exchange rejected a bid from the nation's largest health insurer to start selling coverage statewide next year.

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Obamacare: Latino Enrollment Numbers in California Show Mixed Results

A retooled, multi-million-dollar marketing effort by the state's health care exchange to persuade more of the state's Latino residents to obtain insurance under the nation's health care law is showing mixed results, according to enrollment data released Thursday.

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Insurers Bullish on Obamacare, Despite Supreme Court Uncertainty

As enrollment grows from the second year Americans can sign up for private coverage under the Affordable Care Act, health insurance companies are hinting at a 2015 that will also be lucrative to their bottom lines.

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Study: 9.6M Could Lose ObamaCare if Subsidy Challenge Succeeds

Roughly 9.6 million people could lose medical coverage on ObamaCare's exchanges if the Supreme Court rules that subsidies distributed by the federal marketplaces are invalid, according to a new study.

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House Fires Shot at Health Care Law, Seeking to Alter Critical Coverage Rule

The House on Thursday easily passed legislation that would redefine a full-time worker under the Affordable Care Act, brushing aside qualms from conservatives and liberals who fear the bill would prompt employers to cut worker hours to avoid being forced to offer them health insurance.

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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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