by Girish Anand | Dec 17, 2016 | ACA, Affordable Care Act, CMS
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), which administers the health insurance marketplaces and regulates the provisions of the Affordable Care Act (ACA), on Friday threw down the gauntlet to President-elect Donald Trump and his incoming administration...
by Girish Anand | Dec 14, 2016 | ACA, Affordable Care Act, HHS
Before the clock could even click toward midnight on Dec. 15, the original deadline for signing up for 2017 Obamacare policies that will take effect on Jan. 1, the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) today extended the cutoff date to Monday, Dec. 19, at...
by Girish Anand | Nov 29, 2016 | ACA, Affordable Care Act, Obamacare
While President-elect Donald Trump announced key appointments to posts responsible for the nation’s health care policies, a Gallup poll continued a yearslong indication of public discontent with Obamacare. Some 53 percent of those polled in November dislike the...
by Girish Anand | Nov 18, 2016 | ACA, Affordable Care Act, IRS
The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) today extended the deadline for employers to furnish their employees with their annual health care information forms from Jan. 31 to March 2, though it left intact the deadline for employers to file their forms 1094-B and 1094-C with...
by Girish Anand | Nov 16, 2016 | ACA, Affordable Care Act, CMS
About 53,000 more individuals than last year signed up for health insurance policies during the first 12 days of open enrollment this year, which commenced Nov. 1 and runs through Jan. 31, despite the election of Donald Trump as president and his vow to “repeal...
by Girish Anand | Nov 6, 2016 | ACA, Affordable Care Act, Obamacare
At least 8.4 million consumers buying health insurance on the Obamacare exchanges for 2017 will bear the brunt of the across-the-board premium increases health insurers set for 2017 policies, according to an analysis by the Wall Street Journal. Seven million of them...