Health and wellness

Almost a third of 32 hospitals and health systems involved in the ACO experiment aimed at changing the way medical providers are paid may exit the program, a potential threat to the Affordable Care Act’s ambitious cost-saving goals.

An exemption allowing religious groups to avoid covering the cost of birth control as required by the U.S. Affordable Care Act won’t be expanded, the Obama administration said.

Wellness study shows little progress, but HHS endorses wellness plans with final ACA rules.

A strategy to protect your clients’ interests in the new world of health care reform.

With fewer employees getting vision care, major diseases are missed early on, leading to higher overall health costs

Craig Davidson on the relationship between health reform and the National Labor Relations Act Section 7.

The Affordable Care Act will fundamentally change the way health insurance works across the country, and in most cases it will increase cost. What can be done to mitigate the impact?

“Our results support the ancient proverb: ‘Eat breakfast like a king, lunch like a prince and dinner like a pauper,”’ says Hana Kahleova, a researcher at the Institute for Clinical and Experimental Medicine in Prague, Czech Republic.

Hope has been scuttled for one Texas woman and thousands of other health care workers across Texas when the state opted out of the Medicaid expansion earlier this month. Texas has the highest rate of uninsured people in the U.S.

Enrollment in private health insurance exchanges will likely match the public exchanges by 2017, when about 18% of Americans are expected to purchase their plans through the HIX model, according to Accenture research.

Nearly half of employers are considering making changes to their total rewards program as a result of the Affordable Care Act, yet most do not anticipate making changes that could negatively affect employees.

In wellness programs, disincentives may have a place but experts caution to tread carefully when using this tactic.

Consuming an additional half-serving a day of red meat during a four-year period increased a person’s chance of developing diabetes by 48% in the subsequent four years, according to a study this month in JAMA Internal Medicine.

A politically charged morning kicked off the second day of NAHU’s annual meeting in Atlanta Monday with speakers from both sides of the aisle. One Republican policy wonk explained what he thinks is really going on with the ACA.

Health and wellness company receives $8 million from venture capital firms and announces new clients, partnerships and additions to its leadership team.

A Government Accountability Office report released this month shows computer systems for the insurance marketplaces may not be ready on time and training for the people who will assist consumers is behind schedule.

Computer systems to help Americans gain coverage on the Affordable Care Act’s insurance exchanges may not be ready on time, and training for the people who will assist consumers is behind schedule, a government report found.

As plan sponsors continue to work through Affordable Care Act compliance, there has been some confusion about what types of plans are being sponsored. Here’s a look at the basics of these plans.

Supporters of the Affordable Care Act said they’ll debut a campaign this week in 18 U.S. states to promote a law still poorly understood by those designed to benefit most.

Stephen M. Saxon, chairman of the Groom Law Group, says little is getting done on important retirement issues in Washington because of the mandated government budget cuts known as sequestration.