Wellness

Eighteen months after passage of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, group medical benefits costs are on the rise once again, according to The November Employee Benefits Market Survey conducted by The Council of Insurance Agents & Brokers.

While 88% of small business owners do not think it is right for the government to force a state resident to buy health insurance, more than 90% of them do not intend on purchasing health coverage under the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act.

The Department of Health and Human Services has rolled out an enhanced version of a public website, mandated under the Accountable Care Act, to aid small businesses and consumers in comparing and purchasing health care coverage.

The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services has issued its first rebuke to an insurer under the federal rate review provision of the Affordable Care Act.

The National Association of Insurance Commissioners on Tuesday passed a resolution urging the Department of Health and Human Services to take action to preserve the role of professional health insurance agents and brokers as advisers and advocates. The National Association of Health Underwriters praises the NAIC for the move.

The breakdown of deficit talks in Congress will exact little pain on the U.S. health care industry, but it's a temporary reprieve from steeper cuts that could be put back on the table in 2013.

As U.S. companies continue to ask workers to shoulder a greater burden of the cost of health care consumers want their employers to do more to help them improve their health and get the most from their employer-provided health and wellness plans, according to a new survey from Aon Hewitt, The Futures Company and the National Business Group on Health.

The Supreme Court on Friday named an attorney to argue that challenges to President Barack Obama's health care insurance requirements must wait until after that part of the law has taken effect in 2014.

Access to paid sick days could save $1 billion in medical costs annually, according to a report by the Institute for Women's Policy Research. Currently, more than 44 million American workers do not have access to paid sick days, and more are unable to use time off to take care of sick children or other family members.

As the U.S. Supreme Court prepares to review President Barack Obama's health care reforms, more Americans want to it repealed than want to keep it, a poll released on Wednesday shows.