Industry Updates

U.S. small businesses are dropping health insurance for their workers, as Obamacare lets them send employees to new marketplaces where they can often get subsidies from the government to buy coverage.

Right about now, some low-income people who just barely qualified for subsidies on the health insurance marketplace are starting to worry: What if my income for the year ends up below the poverty level?

California's health insurance exchange hired two outside firms for $13.4 million to address long wait times for consumers calling about their Obamacare coverage.

Insurers and providers increasingly are entering into partnerships to offer health plans with narrow provider networks, Modern Healthcare reports.

California's insurance exchange began mailing renewal notices this week to more than 1.1 million people already enrolled in health plans, officials announced Thursday.

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

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.

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

California's health insurance exchange has awarded $184 million in contracts without the competitive bidding and oversight that is standard practice across state government, including deals that sent millions of dollars to a firm whose employees have long-standing ties to the agency's executive director.

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.