by admin | Jul 15, 2015 | Affordable Care Act, Obamacare
The Little Sisters of the Poor, a Roman Catholic order that operates nursing homes, yesterday became the latest group to lose a court battle over the Obama administration’s plan to have health insurance companies directly contact employees about providing...
by admin | Jul 11, 2015 | Affordable Care Act, DOL, DOT, Health Care Reform, HHS, Obamacare, PPACA
The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), along with the Department of Labor (DOL) and the Department of the Treasury (DOT), have issued interim final rules that establish an alternative way for eligible organizations that have a religious objection to...
by admin | Jun 16, 2015 | Affordable Care Act, Health Care Reform, HHS, Obamacare
After some high-profile state defections, the ranks of states hosting their own Affordable Care Act (ACA) health insurance marketplaces will grow with the addition of Arkansas, Delaware and Pennsylvania, whose applications were recently approved by the Department of...
by admin | Jun 16, 2015 | Affordable Care Act, HHS, Obamacare
Because the back-end of HealthCare.gov is still unable to accurately calculate subsidies owed to Obamacare sign-ups, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) has been relying on estimates provided by insurers of what is owed them, according to an audit by...
by admin | Jun 15, 2015 | Affordable Care Act, Obamacare, PPACA
The latest Commonwealth Fund Affordable Care Act (ACA) Tracking Survey pegs the percentage of uninsured working-age adults at 13 in May 2015, down from 20 percent prior to the first Obamacare enrollment period in 2013-2014. This represents an estimated decline of 12.1...
by admin | Jun 10, 2015 | Affordable Care Act, CMS, Health Care Reform, Obamacare, PPACA
Hawaii became the latest state to shut down its online health insurance marketplace after the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) began cutting back on grant funds because its exchange was out of compliance with the Affordable Care Act (ACA). The Hawaii...