Since the Obama administration decided to allow insurers to continue offering health plans in 2014 that don't comply with the healthcare reform law, numerous reports have predicted the extension of these old policies will have negative consequences for health insurers.
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HealthCare.gov must be fully functional by mid-March to avoid potential bankruptcy for health insurers, according to a procurement document filed by federal officials.
A Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act provision stopping employers from providing better health benefits to "highly compensated individuals" won't be enforced this year, according to a report from The New York Times.
The back-end payment system allowing HealthCare.gov to transfer federal subsidies to health insurers isn't finished yet, a federal official told lawmakers yesterday.
The American Society of Anesthesiologists has joined seven pain medicine specialty societies in formally urging CMS to stop the implementation of steep cuts to physician payments for Interlaminar Epidural procedures.
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Federal prosecutors filed a record-setting number of healthcare fraud cases in fiscal year 2013, according to analysis from researchers at Syracuse (N.Y.) University.
A federal judge has ruled subsidies helping consumers pay health insurance premiums are lawful in the 36 states with federally run Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act marketplaces, according to a report from The Hill.
The Minnesota Department of Health has started destroying over one million newborn blood samples and will pay almost $1 million in legal costs, per order by a 2011 ruling by the Minnesota Supreme Court, according to a report by The…
House Appropriations Committee Chairman Hal Rogers (R-Ky.) has unveiled the fiscal year 2014 omnibus appropriations bill, which would cut funding for the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act.
A New Mexico court ruled Monday that physicians cannot be prosecuted for prescribing drugs to aid the deaths of terminally ill, competent patients who want to end their lives, according to an Albuquerque Journal report.