On June 25, 2015, the Supreme Court of the United States ruled in King v. Burwell that the Affordable Care Act (ACA) requires premium tax credits to be made available in states that use a federal exchange. The case challenged...more
The Supreme Court of the United States is poised to decide a critical question under the Affordable Care Act: whether the federal government can subsidize health insurance premiums for residents of states that did not...more
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS or the agency) kicked off a flurry of springtime regulatory activity for health insurance issuers with publication of the final Notice of Benefit and Payment Parameters for...more
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services recently announced that Qualified Health Plans (sold on and off the Exchanges) are not “Federal health care programs” for purposes of the federal anti-kickback statute. The...more