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 Ed Fensholt | November 8, 2011 | Health Reform
Another federal appeals court has upheld the constitutionality of the health reform law’s individual mandate, the obligation that virtually all Americans obtain health insurance by 2014 or face potential penalties. The ruling, by the U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals for...
by Ed Fensholt | November 8, 2011 | Health Reform, Misc Health Reform
The health reform law imposes a number of fees, taxes and other assessments on health insurance companies and plans, to help subsidize a number of endeavors. Several clients have asked about these fees, taxes and assessments. The purpose of this blog posting is to...
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...
by Mark Holloway | October 21, 2011 | Adult Child Coverage, Health Reform, State and Local Issues
One of the nearly immediate benefit mandates under the health reform law is the obligation on the part of health plans to cover eligible employees’ dependent children to age 26. The mandate includes a corollary provision in the federal tax law that makes the extended...
by Ed Fensholt | October 14, 2011 | Health Reform
The Health and Human Services Department said today it is walking away from efforts to implement a long-term care entitlement program included in last year’s healthcare reform law. The program, called Community Living Assistance Services and Supports (CLASS), is...
