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Healthcare Law -- Apr 22, 2013

by Manatt, Phelps & Phillips, LLP on 4/22/2013

In This Issue: The ACA’s Effects on the Employer Insurance Market; Using the Premium Assistance Option to Purchase Coverage for Medicaid Beneficiaries in the Exchange: A Review of the Legal, Policy and Operational Issues; and...more

Higher Insurance Premiums For Smokers And The Obese

by Cynthia A. Augello | Cullen and Dykman LLP on 4/9/2013

The perils of smoking and obesity have long been the topic of conversation in doctors’ offices and between nagging family members. However, employers are jumping on the bandwagon by imposing higher health insurance premiums...more

ACA Affordable Insurance Exchanges and Qualified Health Plans

by Robert Hill, Debra McCurdy, Joseph Metro, Elizabeth Doyle O'Brien | Reed Smith on 3/15/2013

In This Issue: Exchanges and Types of Plans To Be Offered Through Exchanges; Essential Health Benefits; Premiums; Cost Sharing Reductions; and Other Issues. Excerpt from Exchanges and Types of Plans To Be...more

Employers Should Ask Their Insurance Agents Whether Early Renewal Of Health Insurance Coverage Is Appropriate

by Bruce Platt, Scott T. Silverman | Akerman Senterfitt on 2/28/2013

While one of the greatest benefits of the federal Affordable Care Act ("ACA") is better access for all to quality healthcare, theoretically resulting in lower health care expenditures, there also are costs associated with the...more

Campaign Debate Over Medicare Could Ripple Out To Deficit Reduction Talks Next Year

by InsideHealthPolicy.com on 9/28/2012

If polls continue to show public support eroding for Medicare premium support and Medicaid block grants, Republicans might have a difficult time pushing those reforms next year during the deficit reduction debates, some...more

Healthcare Law Results In Refunds To California Employers

by Robert Freedman - Partner at Tharpe & Howell,... on 8/31/2012

The Affordable Care Act, signed into law by President Obama in 2010, has various provisions that kick in starting this year. One provision requires that insurance companies spend a certain percentage of health insurance...more

Obamacare: GAO Advocates Family Premium for Employer Mandate

by Dinsmore & Shohl LLP on 8/1/2012

The United States Governmental Accountability Office (GAO) has published the findings of a study that advocates the use of the family premium as the employer mandated affordability requirement as outlined by the Affordable...more

Healthcare Law Results In Refunds To California Employers

by Peter Bauman - Senior Associate at Tharpe &... on 7/25/2012

The Affordable Care Act, signed into law by President Obama in 2010, has various provisions that kick in starting this year. One provision requires that insurance companies spend a certain percentage of health insurance...more

The Healthcare Sector and the Future of ACA Implementation

by Morgan Lewis on 7/17/2012

Even with the lingering uncertainty over Medicaid program expansion, the High Court's decision brings some certainty and the need to focus on ramifications of ACA implementation. On June 28, the U.S. Supreme Court held...more

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Healthcare Law -- Apr 22, 2013

Higher Insurance Premiums For Smokers And The Obese

ACA Affordable Insurance Exchanges and Qualified Health Plans

Employers Should Ask Their Insurance Agents Whether Early Renewal Of Health Insurance Coverage Is Appropriate

Campaign Debate Over Medicare Could Ripple Out To Deficit Reduction Talks Next Year

Healthcare Law Results In Refunds To California Employers

Obamacare: GAO Advocates Family Premium for Employer Mandate

Healthcare Law Results In Refunds To California Employers

The Healthcare Sector and the Future of ACA Implementation

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