by admin | Oct 8, 2015 | ACA, Affordable Care Act, CMS
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) and Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC) thave released final rules that simplify requirements and add new flexibilities for providers to make electronic health information...
by admin | Oct 6, 2015 | ACA, Affordable Care Act, Obamacare, PPACA
Section 1332 of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA) allows states to obtain waivers to tinker with provisions of Obamacare beginning in 2017. Depending on how much leeway the federal government will allow, states could drop the individual mandate or...
by admin | Sep 30, 2015 | ACA, Affordable Care Act
Presidential candidate Hillary Clinton says to axe it, and efforts in both Houses of Congress are gaining steam to do just that: end the so-called Cadillac Tax that’s set to take effect in 2018 as part of the Affordable Care Act (ACA). The 40-percent tax on...
by admin | Sep 28, 2015 | Affordable Care Act, PPACA, U.S. Supreme Court
The birth control mandate of the Affordable Care Act (ACA) could end up before the U.S. Supreme Court following contradictory rulings by several U.S. circuit courts. This past week a three-member panel of the 8th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that, as written...
by admin | Sep 23, 2015 | ACA, Affordable Care Act, Health Care Reform, HHS, Obamacare, PPACA
Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Sylvia Mathews Burwell told a group of medical students yesterday that getting those who are still uninsured to sign up during the next open enrollment period is going to be a “bigger challenge.” Speaking at the...
by admin | Sep 17, 2015 | ACA, Affordable Care Act
The data are in post-Obamacare, and for all of 2014 the uninsured rate fell to 10.4 percent, down from 13.3 percent the year before the Affordable Care Act (ACA) took effect. In concrete terms, the number of Americans without health insurance dropped from almost 42...