by admin | Aug 20, 2014 | DOL
The Department of Labor (DOL) has issued guidance to clarify and implement Executive Order 11246, which bans discrimination on the basis of gender identify and transgender status for all businesses doing contract or subcontract work with the federal government. Both...
by admin | Aug 20, 2014 | Affordable Care Act, IRS
A 2.3 percent excise tax on medical devices that took effect in January has failed to live up to expectations, and an audit blames the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) for botching its implementation. A report by the Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration...
by admin | Aug 19, 2014 | Affordable Care Act, HHS
Several watchdog groups have written to Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Sylvia Mathews Burwell to protest that the health insurance industry is still discriminating against the sick in terms of harder access to care and onerous pricing for medicines, despite...
by admin | Aug 14, 2014 | Affordable Care Act, CMS, HHS
The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) this week sent out 310,000 demands to Obamacare policyholders to verify their citizenship/immigration eligibility. The prove-it-or-lose-it notices followed failed previous attempts to obtain verification from the...
by admin | Aug 12, 2014 | Affordable Care Act, Health Care Reform, Obamacare, PPACA
A preliminary analysis by PricewaterhouseCoopers' Health Research Institute predicts that premiums on the Affordable Care Act (ACA) marketplaces will rise an average of 7.5 percent for 2015 policies when open enrollment commences Nov. 15. State by state, a wide...