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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.

Five Things We Need To Know Before Obamacare Enrollment Starts Again

The Obama administration seems pretty confident that HealthCare.gov can avoid punch-line status again when Obamacare enrollment reopens next month.

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Cautious Optimism Pervades Launch of Nevada Health Link 2.0

We're more than a month out from the Nov. 15 launch of Nevada Health Link 2.0. Still, given the first go-round's disastrous results, it's worth looking in now on how advance prep work is going for the new rollout.

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Modest Premium Hikes, Higher Consumer Costs Likely For Job-Based Plans

Fall is enrollment season for many people who get insurance through their workplace.

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Study Finds Savings Low For Employers Capping Their Payments for Treatments

In an effort to slow health care spending, more employers are looking at capping what they pay for certain procedures — like joint replacements — and requiring insured workers who choose hospitals or medical facilities that exceed the cap to pay the difference themselves.

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Exchange RX Utilization Starting To Tell A Story

When the new health insurance exchanges opened for business one year ago, whether they would succeed was a matter of fervent debate.

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Poll: Californians Support Health Coverage For Undocumented Immigrants

A majority of the state’s voters support extending current health insurance programs to all low-income Californians, including undocumented immigrants, according to a new statewide poll released today.

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Wal-Mart Adds In-Store Program to Help Customers Compare Insurance Offerings

Wal-Mart announced Monday that it will dive deeper into the health-care market, unveiling an initiative to allow customers to compare and enroll in health insurance plans in thousands of its stores.

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Health Insurers Spending Millions to Beat Pro-Consumer Ballot Measures

The latest campaign spending figures on California's two big healthcare ballot initiatives are just in, courtesy of the watchdog group MapLight, and they're mind-boggling.

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HHS is Hiding Health Insurance Rate Hikes, Former Official Charges

The Department of Health and Human Services is improperly hiding health insurers' requested rate increases from the public -- in violation of the Affordable Care Act, according to a new lawsuit from a former administration health official.

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Anthem’s New Partnership With Seven Hospitals Builds on an Old Idea in California

A new payer-provider partnership in Southern California called Vivity has been billed as a first-of-its-kind in the nation.

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