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 Ed Fensholt | December 19, 2011 | Health Reform
The U.S. Supreme Court will hear oral arguments on the constitutionality and other aspects of last year’s federal health reform law over three days in late March, 2012. See the online article posted today by Jerry Geisel at Business Insurance for more detailed...
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 Ed Fensholt | December 12, 2011 | Health Reform
The U.S. Supreme Court will decide next year whether the “individual mandate” under 2010’s federal health reform law is constitutional (and if not, whether the remainder of the law must also be thrown out). Although the date for arguments on these matters has not been...
by Ed Fensholt | November 18, 2011 | Health Reform
Here’s some long-expected, but nevertheless welcome news. The U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) issued an announcement yesterday reassuring health plan sponsors that the Department will give them “sufficient time to comply” with final regulations (once the regulations...
