by Mark Holloway | January 5, 2012 | Health Reform
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) has issued an interim final rule that provides standards for the electronic payments between health plans and healthcare providers such as doctors, hospitals and pharmacies. The new rules are required by the...
by Mark Holloway | December 13, 2011 | Health Reform
The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) announced late last week that the $5 billion Early Retirement Reimbursement Program (ERRP) fund, established under last year’s health reform law to reimburse sponsors of retiree plans for a portion of claims incurred...
by Mark Holloway | December 13, 2011 | Health Reform, Insurance Exchanges
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) has issued a set of frequently asked questions (FAQs) that discuss key questions for the states to ponder as they consider how best to structure their insurance exchanges. According to HHS, the FAQs are intended...
by Mark Holloway | November 14, 2011 | Health Reform, Individual Mandate
The United States Supreme Court has agreed to hear an appeal on whether President Obama’s health reform law can impose penalties on Americans who do not purchase health insurance beginning in 2014. Known as the “individual mandate,” the provision in the law has been...
by Mark Holloway | October 24, 2011 | Health Reform
On Thursday, October 19th, the Obama Administration released its final regulations on Accountable Care Organizations (ACOs), networks of doctors and hospitals that are rewarded under a Medicare pilot program for delivering higher-quality, coordinated care to Medicare...
