by Girish Anand | Nov 22, 2013 | Affordable Care Act, Health Care Reform, Obamacare, PPACA
A day after Covered California extended the sign-up deadline for Obamacare health policies starting on Jan, 1, the Centers of Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) has opted to follow suit, giving consumers nationwide another eight days for enrolling on...
by Girish Anand | Nov 22, 2013 | Health Care Reform, HHS, Obamacare, PPACA
Health and Human Services (HHS) plans to delay the start of the second year of Obamacare enrollment by one month to allow insurers more time to set rates after assessing their plan experiences during 2014, a department official informed Bloomberg Business News...
by Girish Anand | Nov 19, 2013 | Affordable Care Act, Health Care Reform, HHS, Obamacare, PPACA
If you build it, they will come, and some two million have already visited thehealthsherpa.com, a site built in three days that uses data from HealthCare.gov to provide almost instantaneous quotes on Obamacare health insurance policies. The site, coded by three...
by Girish Anand | Nov 18, 2013 | DOL, Health Care Reform
The Departments of Labor, Health and Human Services and the Treasury have jointly issued a final rule increasing parity between mental health/substance use disorder benefits and medical/surgical benefits in group and individual health plans. The final rule implements...
by Girish Anand | Nov 14, 2013 | Affordable Care Act, Health Care Reform, Obamacare, PPACA
After a couple of weeks of massaging his original vow that "if you like your policy, you can keep your policy," President Obama bowed to the reality that millions of people couldn't keep their insurance policies under the rules of the Affordable Care Act...
by Girish Anand | Nov 13, 2013 | Affordable Care Act, Health Care Reform, HHS, OSHA, PPACA
The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) today released end-of-month enrollment figures for the rollout of Obamacare on Oct. 1, saying that 26,794 Americans had purchased a private insurance plan on HealthCare.gov, the federal marketplace, with an additional...