Third and Goal: NV Health Exchange Tackling Key Issues As Enrollment Nears

Two years into the grand experiment of setting up Nevada’s first health insurance exchange under the Affordable Care Act, the state is banking on one hard-earned prize after surviving its tumultuous launch: normalcy. The switch to a hybrid health exchange last year paid off for the Silver State Health Insurance Exchange in the form of ...

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Marketplace Customers Could See Higher Premiums, No Coverage For Out-Of-Network Care

When the health insurance marketplaces open on Sunday, consumers shopping for 2016 coverage may encounter steeper premium increases than last year and more plans that offer no out-of-network coverage. According to an analysis released Monday evening by the Health and Human Services Department, the cost of the second-lowest silver plan in states using the federal ...

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Many Low-Income Workers Say ‘No’ to Health Insurance

When Billy Sewell began offering health insurance this year to 600 service workers at the Golden Corral restaurants that he owns, he wondered nervously how many would buy it. Adding hundreds of employees to his plan would cost him more than $1 million — a hit he wasn’t sure his low-margin business could afford. His ...

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HHS Unveils HealthCare.gov 3.0

The administration unveiled HealthCare.gov 3.0 on Sunday, saying customers will find a sleeker, easier-to-use website if they log on ahead of Obamacare’s third round of sign-ups. Setting a high bar for the portal that famously crashed in fall 2013, officials said the website that serves 38 states is 40 percent quicker than last year and ...

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Thousands Who Didn’t File Tax Returns may Lose Health Care Subsidies

Tens of thousands of people with modest incomes are at risk of losing health insurance subsidies in January because they did not file income tax returns, federal officials and consumer advocates say. Under federal rules, anyone who receives an insurance subsidy must file a tax return to verify that the person was eligible and received ...

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Hepatitis C Drugs Sovaldi and Harvoni Out of Reach for Most, Except Inmates

Sometimes Jane Blumenfeld feels that if she were in prison, she would have a better chance at getting lifesaving drugs to treat her liver disease. Blumenfeld is one of 33,160 people in California who have chronic hepatitis C infection, a liver disease caused by a virus most commonly spread through an exchange of blood. Up ...

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