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Whatever the Supreme Courts decision in Hobby Lobbys challenge to the Affordable Care Acts contraception mandate, it wont likely have broad implications for all employers, according to Howard Shapiro, partner and head of Proskauers ERISA litigation group in New Orleans.
Americans will get more time to enroll in Obamacare insurance plans if they started the process but were unable to complete it before the March 31 deadline.
Voluntary benefit sales are enjoying rapid growth as employers prepare for the impact of the Affordable Care Act by revamping their medical plan designs to include more products such as accident and critical illness benefits.
Two months before health insurers must submit rate proposals for 2015 to government regulators, WellPoint Inc. fired a surprising shot across their bow by predicting it may ask for double-digit plus increases.
A divided U.S. Supreme Court Tuesday debated whether companies can assert religious rights, hearing arguments in an ideological clash over the Affordable Care Act and rules that promote contraceptive coverage.
Access to prescription drugs is more challenging for consumers buying insurance through the exchanges than those covered by employer-sponsored insurance plans, an analysis by Avalere Health finds.
Obamacare opponents will argue Tuesday, to the U.S. Court of Appeals in Washington, that millions of otherwise qualified people in the 36 states that havent set up marketplaces are ineligible to receive the subsidies.
State-run exchange flaws have sparked talk of extending the open enrollment deadline beyond March 31 in states where residents could not complete applications through their respective online marketplaces.
With just days to go in open enrollment on the ACAs public exchanges, brokers say the biggest problem is getting a hold of certain carriers, and one in particular rose to the top of the list of complaints.
Employers are making creative changes to employee benefit offerings to stem the tide of rising health care costs, but many are taking a wait-and-see approach to private exchanges, according to presenters at MetLifes 10th National Benefits Symposium Monday.
Months after becoming the first state to offer health care coverage to lower-income residents through a private option rather than Medicaid expansion under the ACA, Arkansas finally agreed to extend this closely watched political compromise.
Republican leaders on the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee are challenging the Treasury Departments authority to delay the Affordable Care Acts employer mandate, calling it a political move directed by President Obama ahead of the November elections.
Nearly four years after the enactment of the Affordable Care Act more than half (53%) of Americans disapprove of the law but most of those opponents now say they want politicians to make the law work, according to a new Pew Research Center study.
WellPoint Inc., the second-largest for-profit health insurer in the U.S., raised its earnings forecast for the year as the company adds customers through the exchanges set up under Obamacare.
One in every five Affordable Care Act applicants in Wisconsin has not yet paid their premium, according to Wisconsins MacIver Institute. The news comes on the heels of a Republican effort to uncover how many of the 5 million ACA enrollees across the country have paid their first premium.
Opposing the ACA's contraceptive coverage rule, Hobby Lobby is asking the Supreme Court to give for-profit corporations the same religious freedoms as individuals, with potentially sweeping rights to opt out of laws they say are immoral.
Despite the Affordable Care Acts requirement that most Americans obtain insurance or pay a fine, one-third of the uninsured plan to remain without insurance, according to a new survey from Bankrate.com.
Forty-five percent of employers have implemented or plan to consider using a private exchange for their full-time active employees before 2018, according to a new employer survey conducted by the Private Exchange Evaluation Collaborative
As brokers eye their new competitor created by the ACA, many have wondered who will be liable for any mistakes made by the non-advising entities.
A snapshot of Obamacare enrollment in seven states suggests the law hasnt significantly increased competition in health insurance markets, the Kaiser Family Foundation reported. Meanwhile, HHS said Monday enrollment has reached 5 million as the March 31 deadline is just two weeks away.