by Girish Anand | May 16, 2018 | ACA, Affordable Care Act, IRS
The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) has begun issuing new Affordable Care Act (ACA) penalty notices for calendar year 2015. The notices are officially called Employer Shared Responsibility Payment (ESRP) notices, or what the IRS refers to as Letter 226-J. Under the...
by Girish Anand | May 16, 2018 | ACA, CMS, Medicaid, Obamacare
At a health care symposium this week, Seema Verma, administrator of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), reaffirmed her agency’s commitment to keeping Medicaid available to its recipients without any lifetime limits or caps. Her statement...
by Girish Anand | May 7, 2018 | ACA, Affordable Care Act, FDA
After years of delay, an Affordable Care (ACA) Act rule requiring chain restaurants to label the calories in each item on their menu — and to provide sodium and other nutritional data on request — goes in effect today, May 7. Though some large restaurant...
by Girish Anand | May 7, 2018 | ACA, Affordable Care Act, Health Care Reform, Obamacare
Tucked inside the massive House farm bill now under consideration is a measure to help fund rural association health plans to the tune of $65 million over four years, to be doled out at the secretary of Agriculture’s discretion. Under the bill, starting next...
by Girish Anand | Apr 17, 2018 | ACA, Affordable Care Act, HHS, Trumpcare
The Affordable Care Act (ACA, aka Obamacare) is still the law of the land, but the Trump administration has modified so many of its provisions — including the elimination of a tax penalty for not having health insurance — that the remaining parts of the...
by Girish Anand | Apr 16, 2018 | ACA, Affordable Care Act, Obamacare
The New Jersey legislature has sent a bill to Gov. Phil Murphy, a Democrat, that would reinstate the expiring individual health insurance mandate of the Affordable Care Act (ACA, or Obamacare). Under terms of the bill — New Jersey Health Insurance Market...