by Girish Anand | Nov 7, 2019 | ACA, Affordable Care Act, Obamacare
If your business has gotten IRS penalty notices for Affordable Care Act (ACA, or Obamacare) violations, you may soon get what’s called a Letter 5005A — which means pay up or the agency will levy your bank accounts or property to make good on what’s...
by Girish Anand | Oct 31, 2019 | ACA, Affordable Care Act, Obamacare
One day before open enrollment begins on the Obamacare exchanges, Senate Democrats forced a procedural vote on a Trump-era regulation allowing states to design their own health care programs, and the Republican Senate held mostly firm with only Sen. Susan Collins of...
by Girish Anand | Oct 23, 2019 | ACA, Affordable Care Act, Obamacare
In the ongoing saga over cost-sharing reduction (CSR) payments to health insurers, a federal judge has sided with the insurers and ordered the federal government to cough up $1.6 billion. The CSR payments were promised in the Affordable Care Act (ACA, or Obamacare) in...
by Girish Anand | Oct 22, 2019 | ACA, Affordable Care Act, Obamacare
Today, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) announced that the average premium for the second lowest cost silver plan on HealthCare.gov for a 27 year-old will drop by 4 percent for the 2020 coverage year. Additionally, 20 more issuers will...
by Girish Anand | Oct 16, 2019 | ACA, Affordable Care Act, Obamacare
Judge Reed O’Connor of the Northern District of Texas has placed a nationwide injunction on the Obama-era regulation that prohibited insurers and health care providers who receive federal money from denying treatment to anyone based on sex, gender identity or...
by Girish Anand | Oct 10, 2019 | ACA, Affordable Care Act, HHS
UPDATE: On Oct. 22, the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled against the Little Sisters of the Poor, refusing to grant them an exemption. The Little Sisters of the Poor have once again filed a petition before the Supreme Court to restore their exemption from the...