Under the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act’s medical loss ratio, health payers are required to spend a minimum of 80 percent of their premium revenue on paying claims and boosting...
Before the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA) became law on March 23, 2010, the healthcare industry faced a number of obstacles particularly in terms of providing medical care and health insurance to many low-income families...
The health insurance exchanges created after passage of the Affordable Care Act may not serve as a truly effective marketplace for commercial payers since some national insurers like Aetna and...
While the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act has decreased uninsurance rates to historically low levels, the healthcare law also led to higher premium costs and insurance rates among health...
A new proposed rule called Expatriate Health Plans, Expatriate Health Plan Issuers, and Qualified Expatriates; Excepted Benefits; Lifetime and Annual Limits; and Short-Term, Limited-Duration Insurance...
The Department of Vermont Health Access went against federal laws when it failed to allocate funds to establishment grants in order to create a public health insurance marketplace, the Office of the...
The latest data from the National Center for Health Statistics shows that the uninsurance rate during the first three months of 2016 has decreased to 8.6 percent, or 27.3 million Americans,...
A total of five senators and multiple organizations are looking to create a public option for healthcare coverage to be available among all Americans purchasing insurance through the Affordable Care...
A hefty number of health insurance companies have been dropping out of the Affordable Care Act’s state exchanges in recent months including Humana, Aetna, and UnitedHealthcare. These actions...
With more health payers such as UnitedHealthcare, Humana, and Aetna dropping out of a number of state health insurance exchanges, it is useful to analyze the differences of healthcare coverage between...
The public health insurance marketplace created through the Affordable Care Act (ACA) may have fewer and fewer health plans participating in the coming years since a number of major insurers have...
Healthcare payers may find that they may no longer have to pass on extraneous costs to their consumers when out-of-network providers send more costly claims their way. New legislation in states like...
Healthcare policy of US presidential candidates depends on more than their perspective on the Affordable Care Act. With employer-sponsored health insurance still a major aspect of coverage among...
With many health payers experiencing significant challenges while operating through the health insurance exchanges and adhering to various provisions of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act,...
Ever since the passage of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA), a number of opponents have found factors to criticize within the landmark healthcare law. But has it truly brought more...
Last year, six states including Texas, Wisconsin, Kansas, Louisiana, Indiana and Nebraska filed a lawsuit arguing that a provision within the Affordable Care Act requiring states to cover a Health...
The upcoming US presidential elections may impact the future of the health insurance industry and the way healthcare costs are addressed in this country. Whether the Democrats or the Republicans take...
For months now, the media has been broadcasting 24 hours per day, seven days a week news related to the upcoming presidential election. Many have postulated on how the nation will be impacted if either...
When the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act was passed into law, it has had a variety of proponents as well as opposition from the GOP with many calling on the healthcare law to be repealed....
The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act has undergone both an opposition and an embrace by healthcare experts and politicians around the country. Now that this healthcare law has become embedded...
