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The latest information relating to the health insurance industry.
Bishops Will Sue Feds Over Contraception Rule
Kaiser Health News reports: "The United States Conference of Catholic Bishops is promising a legal challenge to federal rules the Obama administration reaffirmed Friday requiring health insurers to provide women with a range of preventive health services, including...
Health reform law has small insurers on edge
Peter Frost of The Chicago Tribune reports: "United Security Life and Health Insurance Co. lost money in 2009. The next two years weren't much better. So when it came time for the small Bedford Park-based insurer to set health care premiums in 2012, it said didn't...
Affordable Care Act Mandate Kicking Insurance Agents To The Curb
Yahoo News reports: "In an environment where jobs are hard to find, the Obama administration has thrown more than 100,000 health insurance agents and brokers under the bus and given them the gift of an unemployment line just before the holidays. To make matters worse,...
America hits the brakes on health spending
Benefitspro reports: "Is health-care relief finally in sight? Health spending stabilized as a share of the nation's economy in 2010 after two back-to-back years of historically low growth, the government reported Monday. Experts debated whether it's a fleeting...
Physician, heal my doctor bills
Benifitspro reports: "Few things make me feel as clueless as a bill from my doctor's office. I don't recognize the abbreviations or understand the jargon. I can't tell when I'm being charged too much. And there's no screen on the wall, at least not at my doctor's...
White House says health reform on track
Benefitspro reports: "White House officials say President Barack Obama's health care overhaul is on track in many states — but they're preparing a federal backstop anyway. The law calls for states to build new health insurance markets called exchanges so those now...
Medicare Part B premiums for 2012 lower than projected
HHS.gov reports: "The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) announced that Medicare Part B premiums in 2012 will be lower than previously projected and the Part B deductible will decrease by $22. While the Medicare Trustees predicted monthly premiums...
IRS resolves employer queries about calculating health costs
Business Insurance reports: "WASHINGTON—Internal Revenue Service guidance released last week resolves additional questions employers have raised about a health care reform law requirement that they report the cost of health care coverage on employees' W-2 wage and...
543,812 union workers receive waivers
Catholic Online reports: "The overwhelming majority of waivers from the president's health care reform law remain Labor unions, which have continued to receive the largest amount of waivers since the Obama administration tightened application rules last summer....
Kaiser poll for most popular PPACA provision yields runaway favorite
Employee Benefit News reports: "Okay, so it’s no secret that the individual mandate included in the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act isn’t going to win any popularity contests — nor is most of the law, for that matter. However, Americans aren’t blowing...