by Girish Anand | Jan 14, 2016 | ACA, Affordable Care Act
The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) yesterday reported 74,000 new sign-ups on HealthCare.gov from Jan. 3 to Jan. 9, bringing total federal Obamacare enrollments to 8.7 million for the 38 states covered by the online exchange. With another 2.7 million...
by Girish Anand | Jan 13, 2016 | ACA, Affordable Care Act, Obamacare
Health insurers are bombarding Obamacare administrators with complaints that people are waiting to get sick before buying health insurance and then dropping it once they are cured. They want the rules and verification system for special enrollment period (SEP)...
by Girish Anand | Jan 12, 2016 | ACA, Affordable Care Act, Obamacare
The federal Obamacare marketplace, HealthCare.gov, today launched a transgender page, offering both application assistance and health-care rights explanations. On the application front, it advises transgender persons to use the names that appear on their Social...
by Girish Anand | Jan 12, 2016 | ACA, Affordable Care Act, Health Care Reform, Obamacare, PPACA
Through October 2015, the Obamacare provision that allows states to enroll anyone earning less than 138 percent of the federal poverty level into Medicare has netted 13.5 million new enrollees, eclipsing marketplace sign-ups — both state and federal — by a...
by Girish Anand | Dec 29, 2015 | ACA, Affordable Care Act, IRS
The February and March deadlines for employers to report health care information to their employees and to the IRS have been pushed back to March 31, and in some cases to June 30. The original deadline for reporting to employees was Feb. 1, with a new two-month window...
by Girish Anand | Dec 18, 2015 | ACA, Affordable Care Act
As part of the budget deal set to pass today, Republicans (largely) have delayed two Obamacare taxes and extended a moratorium on federal funds for use in the “risk corridors” program. Both the medical device tax and the Cadillac tax on expensive health...
