by Girish Anand | Feb 4, 2013 | Health Care Reform
The Small Business Administration (SBA) has launched a new Web page and blog dedicated to educating small business owners about the Affordable Care Act (ACA). The new tools will serve as a gateway for small business owners connecting them with information provided by...
by Girish Anand | Jan 28, 2013 | Health Care Reform, HHS
Originally set as March 1 this year, the deadline for all employers to inform their workforces about how the new health insurance exchanges will operate has been delayed, with no new date offered. The Health and Human Services (HHS) Department fact sheet explaining...
by Girish Anand | Jan 21, 2013 | Health Care Reform, HHS
In the past week, the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) has begun referring to the health insurance exchanges mandated by the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA) as "marketplaces." Fans of PPACA say the renaming was done to ease...
by Girish Anand | Jan 17, 2013 | Health Care Reform, HHS
Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Kathleen Sebelius has released a proposed rule that promotes consistent policies and processes for eligibility notices and appeals in Medicaid, the Children's Health Insurance Program (CHIP), and Exchanges and gives states...
by Girish Anand | Jan 15, 2013 | Health Care Reform, HHS
The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), which was under a deadline of Jan. 1, 2013, to determine if the states were ready to set up health insurance exchanges as mandated by the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA), but it has extended the...
by Girish Anand | Jan 2, 2013 | Health Care Reform, IRS
Most Americans may have avoided the so-called "fiscal cliff" that would've plunged them into higher tax brackets, but at the dawn of the New Year, two health care levies took hold that could affect a lot of taxpayers. First, a new 3.8 percent Net...
