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A provision of the ACA that could be implemented as early as next year requires employers with more than 200 workers to sign up employees in one of the company’s plans. Workers may opt out, however.
Hints of cost spikes matter because much is riding on spending forecasts.
Low reimbursement rates cause one doctor to reject two out of three companies selling Affordable Care Act insurance in his state.
Ballerinas risk injury and high health care costs every time they perform. Allynne Noelle, 32, principal ballerina with the Los Angeles Ballet, says the new health care law offers some relief.
Sandra Lopez, 41, owns Las Fajitas, a popular Mexican restaurant in Newport Beach, Calif. She has to make decisions about health insurance coverage for her family and her business under the Affordable Care Act.
Florida Blue cites cost impact of older and less healthy adults who use more services.
Two top insurance officials in California have competing theories on what’s keeping prices in check for 2015.
KHN’s consumer columnist Michelle Andrews explains that if the insurance offered through an employer is considered affordable, you can’t qualify for the health law’s program to provide financial help to cover costs such as deductibles and co-payments.
House members examined concerns raised in a GAO report about the healthcare.gov website during a subcommittee hearing Thursday. KHN’s Mary Agnes Carey and CQ Roll Call’s Melissa Attias discuss.
The HHS is contacting hundreds of thousands of people with subsidized health plans bought under the ACA to verify their eligibility,
Lawmakers may split over the Institute of Medicine’s proposals to redirect funding.
When you pirouette for a living, injury is nearly certain. But one veteran says coverage under the nation’s health law provided some relief.
But more than 40 percent of those who lacked coverage last fall still don’t have insurance.
