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Commentary: The employer community has made its voice clear on the Affordable Care Acts excise tax. Legislators seem to have heard. Will it make a difference?
U.S. Sens. Dean Heller (R-Nev.) and Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.) introduced legislation Thursday seeking to repeal the Affordable Care Acts excise tax on high-cost group plans.
The share of people without health insurance in the U.S. fell to 10.4 percent last year as the Affordable Care Acts expansion of public and private coverage programs took effect.
The public employees responsible for overseeing $600 million in contracts to build Healthcare.gov were inadequately trained, kept sloppy records, and failed to identify delays and problems that contributed to millions in cost overruns, a new government report finds.
Despite eligibility for cost-sharing reductions, more than 2 million public exchange enrollees did not select eligible plans.
Is the U.S. health care system overrated and overpriced?
Despite the regulatory uncertainty about how the Affordable Care Acts excise tax will apply to employer-sponsored care offered through onsite clinics, employers appear committed to the concept.
The IRS says employers can now do a trial run of their electronic form filing for reporting requirements under the ACA, giving nervous employers and their benefit advisers a way to test for readiness in advance of the reporting deadlines.
About 9.9 million people got health insurance coverage through the marketplaces set up by the ACA as of June 30, a decline from earlier in the year though still higher than the White House administrations target.
Transgender individuals would gain new health care protections in rules proposed Thursday by U.S. regulators.
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services awards $7 million more than last year to grantees in 34 states.
With the increase to the individual mandate penalty slated for 2016, will more people seek coverage through their employers or the public exchanges?
Commentary: Just because vendors are promising you will avoid penalties because you were able to provide a good faith effort, doesnt mean you actually will be penalty-free.
Generation Y employees want more customization and education about their benefits and employers need to provide a broad range of offerings while taking a holistic view to contain rising health care costs.
The number of employers who could be subject to the ACAs Cadillac tax is predicted to rise if employers remain stagnant on health care plan changes, underscoring a need to make plan adjustments sooner rather than later.
Brokers say they increasingly view the ACA as an avenue toward new revenue opportunities and roles around education and communication.
Those calling for repeal of the Affordable Care Act are split on what to do should the law be repealed.
Commentary: Good faith effort, transition relief, 30-day extension and other safety nets for 6055 and 6066 tax filing.
Separating fact from fiction when it comes to the Affordable Care Act is no easy task. Here are 13 common misconceptions about the law.
Republican presidential candidate Scott Walker stitched together a series of popular conservative health care ideas in his newly unveiled ACA replacement plan Tuesday.
