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The latest information relating to the health insurance industry.
3 Reasons to Treat Obamacare Side Effects With HSAs
Personal Finance Cheat Sheet reports: "The side effects of the Affordable Care Act continue to surface in the labor market. In order to help manage rising health care costs and comply with new regulations, large employers across the nation are making adjustments to...
Cubs cut grounds crew hours to avoid paying health insurance
Yahoo Sports reports: "The Chicago Cubs denied an assertion by the Chicago Sun-Times on Friday that the tarp debacle earlier in the week against the San Francisco Giants happened because the club short-staffs the grounds crew at Wrigley Field in order to avoid paying...
Will employer-sponsored health insurance survive?
Forbes reports: "Reports from consulting firms don’t normally make national news. Then again, most such reports don’t predict the downfall of the American health care system. Earlier this month, the consulting group McKinsey projected that tens of millions of...
New Guidance on Information Reporting Requirements Under the Affordable Care Act
SBA.gov reports: "Under the provisions of the Affordable Care Act, those employers that are subject to the Employer Shared Responsibility provisions must report certain information regarding the health coverage they offer their full-time employees (known as Section...
Employer-paid Individual Health Plans
Flexible Benefit reports: "The IRS and other agencies have issued three different sets of guidance making it clear that employers cannot give actively employed workers pre-tax dollars through a Health Reimbursement Arrangement (HRA) ,or any other type of arrangement,...
Still need to send documents to the Marketplace? If you get a letter this week, time is running out.
Healthcare.gov reports: "We’ve been reaching out to some of you by mail, email, and phone if some information you gave us on your Health Insurance Marketplace application doesn’t match the data we have on file. It’s important that you submit the documents we need so...
Health Care For $4: Are You Ready For Walmart To Be Your Doctor?
Forbes reports: "Goodbye, doctor’s office. Hello, Walmart? Based on Walmart’s latest moves, it’s not as unlikely as it sounds. After years of “Will they or won’t they?” discussion, Walmart is making its long-awaited move into delivering primary care: The retailer...
Small Firms Hit by Big Changes in Health Coverage
The Wall Street Journal reports: "Businesses with fewer than 50 workers are exempt from the most stringent requirements for larger employers under the federal health-care law. But that doesn't mean they're off the hook entirely. Smaller employers aren't required under...
Smart Apps vs. Obamacare
Insurance News Net reports: "The Affordable Care Act locks in the status quo, but new technology is making health care cheaper and more individualized. Health care costs in the U.S. have been rising so steadily for so long that containment barely seems possible. Even...
Probe exposes flaws behind HealthCare.gov rollout
Yahoo News reports: "Management failures by the Obama administration set the stage for computer woes that paralyzed the president's new health care program last fall, nonpartisan investigators said in a report released Wednesday. While the administration was publicly...