Healthcare reform

A debrief on the types of changes that trigger the loss of grandfathered status, the concept at the center of the “if you like your plan, you can keep it” issue.

With the online site expected to face difficulties through November, Americans may have only weeks to find replacement coverage, and many may end up paying higher premiums.

With the online site expected to face difficulties through November, Americans may have only weeks to find replacement coverage, and many may end up paying higher premiums.

While the rest of the country was trying to access exchange websites on Oct. 1 and having no luck, something remarkable happened in Connecticut.

While the rest of the country was trying to access exchange websites on Oct. 1 and having no luck, something remarkable happened in Connecticut.

Eager to meet client needs - and keep their business - brokers hunt for info on exchanges.

Nelson Griswold provides four tips for making sure you make the right decision for your client.

The choices that benefits professionals make now about the ACA are crucial.

A 40% excise tax on co-called Cadillac coverage under the Affordable Care Act will not be assessed until 2018, which gives employers time to tweak their plan design, but now there’s concern that platinum-level health insurance might disappear from public exchanges.

Computer servers hosting a key piece of Obamacare’s insurance enrollment program fails Sunday, leaving federal and independent state exchanges unable to provide most services.

More than 300,000 people have visited Kentucky’s health-care exchange website, and more than 26,000 people have signed up for plans, with 10,000 more “in the process of choosing,” Kentucky Gov. Steve Beshear said.

Plain language and approachable design are two goals of the new model HIPAA notices.

“All that we are doing with health care impacts so much more than health care costs, health risk status and use of health care services – it impacts the business,” explained Bruce Sherman, MD, medical director of Employers Health Coalition.

After three years of trying to dismantle Obamacare, House Republicans now are seeking to use the website’s flawed debut to hasten its collapse.

In this list of key Obamacare provisions effective for the plan year beginning this January, which ones apply to you, and are you ready?

The state-run exchanges in Washington and Kentucky have received positive press about their websites working in comparison to the federal, but brokers haven’t had much hand in the success.

CGI Group, lead software developer for the 36 federally-run exchanges, acknowledges problems in Thursday's congressional hearing on healthcare.gov glitches, but asserts that "it will improve," and people will be able to enroll before penalties kick in.

Lawmakers grilled four government contractors Thursday morning on the Healthcare.gov glitches. CGI Group, the lead software developer for the 36 federally-run exchanges, acknowledged the problems but asserted that the final choice to "go live" on Oct. 1 was up to the CMS.

Josh Earnest, a White House spokesman, said earlier via Twitter that the “individual mandate timing hasn’t changed.” The deadline to get insurance remains March 31.

In the months before the Obamacare health insurance website debuted, Kathleen Sebelius gave few hints that anything might be wrong.