Nevada Watch

Most of Nevada’s hospitals are struggling to make the grade when it comes to patient safety, according to a new report by a national health-care watchdog that placed the state near the bottom of its rankings.

Millions of Americans are facing double digit increases in their health premiums as open enrollment begins on state health exchanges.

Open enrollment for 2017 health insurance plans through Nevada’s Affordable Care Act exchange begins Nov. 1.

The number of people obtaining coverage through Nevada’s health insurance exchange has dropped 15.7 percent in the last year, officials said today.

A veteran state employee has been named head of Nevada’s 88,000-member health insurance exchange.

State health insurance exchanges created under the new health care law are in turmoil. By contrast, the employer market — where the majority of Americans still get their coverage — seems like a bastion of stability.

The number of Americans without health insurance declined to 9.1 percent last year, according to federal data released Tuesday. A set of maps released by the Census Bureau suggests an obvious way to decrease the uninsured rate even more: expand Medicaid in the 19 states that haven't.

The dozen ObamaCare exchanges run by the states are struggling financially and could be headed toward collapse over the next several years, according to a new report released Tuesday by House Republicans.

Early in August commercial health insurer Humana Inc. disclosed it was joining a growing list of big insurance companies scaling back participation in public health exchanges.

If premiums for Nevadans covered by the Affordable Care Act increase substantially next year, most will still be able to get coverage for $100 a month or less because of a built-in buffer against insurance rate hikes written into the law, federal health officials said Wednesday.