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Firms with 1,000 employees or more once offered a variety of coverage options, but a recent survey found nearly 15 percent today provide simply these plans and a savings account for medical expenses.
Officials hope to 'make history' by signing up two-thirds of those without coverage after the marketplaces launch nationwide Oct. 1.
The report suggests that cutting payments in areas that pay more per beneficiary, such as Manhattan and Florida, could hit hospitals and doctors who are not providing expensive care.
Under the Affordable Care Act, insurance plans are required to give new mothers equipment and services to enable them to breast feed. What the law doesn't say, however, is what kind of equipment has to be provided.
More doctors are holding appointments with multiple patients, a trend some say may help ease a forecasted shortage of physicians.
With an expanding number of groups offering a stamp of approval, consumers find a confusing array of quality awards to consider when choosing a hospital.
Self-insurance, once the purview of only large companies, is becoming popular with small employers, too. But it could be a threat to the Affordable Care Act, since self-insured companies are exempt from many of the health law's requirements.
More than 1,200 hospitals are receiving good news
Researcher says she and colleagues were "surprised at how firmly and frequently people talked about not wanting cost considerations to factor into decision-making at all."
For years, osteopathic physicians were viewed differently than their medical-doctor counterparts, but this distinction is disappearing.
The growing number of osteopathic doctors could help fill the primary care niche in medically underserved areas.
Much of the 12 hours of debate focused on whether or not industry officials could serve on the exchange's board of directors.
The annual congressional battles over the "doc fix" and the threat of lower reimbursements have left some Texas doctors insecure and unwilling to take on more Medicare patients.
For many years, hospitals were reluctant to address physicians who berated nurses, threw scalpels or demeaned co-workers. But increasingly such actions bring discipline.
Columnist answers readers' questions about birth control provisions and subsidized coverage on state-based insurance marketplaces.
Federal funding for Medicaid is untouched but doctors, hospitals and other Medicare providers will see a 2 percent reduction.
David Blom, the president of OhioHealth, talks about the effects of sequestration and the need to find a long-term fiscal remedy.
Although the Affordable Care Act seeks to end health plans' use of gender to set prices, the new rules don't apply to policies for long-term care.
Doctors, consumer groups cheer expansion, worry that for-profit health plans may cut corners.
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