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On Saturday, the Affordable Care Act's health exchanges will begin a three-month open-enrollment period for 2015. The flurry of information that will be sent and received to enroll provides criminals with an open season for added opportunities to steal data and trick consumers and businesses into sharing their personal information. (Pribish, 11/13)

Two Kansas City-area companies that challenged the Affordable Care Act’s so-called contraception mandate won’t be required to cover birth control as part of their employees’ health care plans. Citing the U.S. Supreme Court’s Hobby Lobby decision, Senior U.S. District Judge Ortrie Smith on Wednesday barred federal officials from enforcing the requirement against Randy Reed Automotive Inc. and Sioux Chief Manufacturing Co. Smith issued separate – and except for the names of the companies – identically worded orders in the cases. The outcomes were expected in the wake of the Hobby Lobby decision. (Margolies, 11/13)

Among the tools: penalties for admitting patients too soon after they were discharged and a focus on reducing hospital-acquired infections. KHN’s Mary Agnes Carey and Jordan Rau discuss what you need to know before open enrollment in the health law’s marketplaces begins again on November 15th. (11/14)