Broker Regulation

One factor driving premium increases is a complicated new rule that allows insurance companies to assign more of a familys overall premium cost to children in individual and small-group policies, starting in 2018.

The full text of the bill is written in dense language that, in many cases, describes precisely how the bill would change short sections of existing laws, rather than what the changes would do. Here's a look at five sets of those proposed changes.

Hospital associations are preparing to take on the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services over a planned cut of $1.6 billion dollars to the 340B drug payment program.

President Donald Trump called Wednesday for repealing the Obamacare individual mandate in a tax overhaul, a day before House GOP leaders planned to unveil a bill without that provision.

Health insurers, public and private exchange programs, and traditional agents and brokers have started the first Affordable Care Act (ACA) individual major medical open enrollment period that will begin under the administration of President Donald Trump.

While the draft rule would still require ACA plans to cover 10 categories of medical services, any state could choose to use benefits standards that are already in use by another state, or even to rewrite its own.