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In Thursdays U.S. Senate HELP Committee hearing, Sen. Tim Scott (R-S.C.) and Chairman Tom Harkin (D-Iowa) found something to agree upon during a normally polarizing debate surrounding the ACA: their insurance careers.
While there is much anticipation of the impending Supreme Court ruling on the constitutionality of PPACA, good plan sponsors already should be preparing for how they will respond to the health care reform decision. Here are some road-maps to prepare for the possible outcomes.
The intersection between religion and business is a heated one, with the most recent flare-up sparked by a provision in the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act that mandates employers cover the cost of contraception in their health plans. Although the Obama administration exempted houses of worship from the rule, it still requires coverage be made available to employees of religiously affiliated organizations such as hospitals and universities.
Do you have an action plan for complying with the Wage Theft Protection Act by February 1? Read in todays BeAdvised as EBA contributor Ken Moyle shares three areas New York employers must comply with under the WTPA.
New proposed rules for the "uniform summary of coverage" may change the way health insurers and group health plans provide consumers with clear, consistent and comparable information about their health plan benefits and coverage starting in 2012.
Advisers in other states are understandably concerned about Vermont's effort to create a single-payer health care system, but overreacting to Vermont doesn't help. Shaping how reform will look in your state will.
The much-anticipated report tackles several potential ways of compensating brokers and navigators in state health exchanges.
Data collected by the National Association of Insurance Commissioners suggest that average consumer rebates would have been more than 60% lower if agent and broker commissions were excluded from medical loss ratio calculations in 2010.
The American Medical Association on Monday reaffirmed its position that individuals should be responsible for buying health insurance, a contentious provision of U.S. health care reform.
Seven Republican presidential hopefuls knocked President Obamas health care reform as a gross government intrusion, but sidestepped numerous chances to hit the partys frontrunner, former Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney, in a face-to-face encounter in New Hampshire.
Lawyers for President Barack Obama sought on Wednesday to stave off the biggest legal challenge yet to health care reform, his signature domestic policy achievement.
Lawyers for President Obama will on Wednesday seek to stave off the biggest legal challenge yet to health care reform, his signature domestic policy achievement.
U.S. health insurers will have to justify big premium rate hikes under new rules issued by the U.S. Health and Human Service Department last week.
Under the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA), the establishment of health care exchanges to enable individuals to purchase health insurance on the open market is proceeding as scheduled.
The Supreme Court on Monday rejected a request by Virginia Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli (R) to expedite review of Virginias lawsuit challenging PPACAs individual mandate.
The U.S. Supreme Court took no action Monday on a request to speed up a ruling on President Barack Obama's health care overhaul law.
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services will pump up to $1 billion, funded under the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, into a new program to dramatically increase patient safety within two years.
Missouri's Democratic attorney general on Monday joined the largely Republican-led effort to have President Barack Obama's 2010 health care overhaul ruled unconstitutional.
As you might have guessed from my previous posts, Im more or less in favor of the health care reform mandates, but there are still individual rules Im concerned about, and some Im definitely confused about. This post focuses on one such confusing rule–the requirement for payers to use 85% member premiums toward the MLR (Medical Loss Ratio). Simply, payers must spend at least 85% of the amount they collect toward the cost of care.
Two potentially significant issues that were immediately identified by employers about W-2 Form reporting under the health law were how small employers and retiree health care plans would be impacted.
