Broker Regulation

The IRS is once again giving insurers and self-insured employer health plans 30 extra days to get Form 1095-B and Form 1095-C coverage notices to the enrollees, former enrollees, and other people who are supposed to receive the forms.

Senator Claire McCaskill is going after Anthem on its policy to deny payment for emergency room treatments that are later determined not to have been an emergency.

Brokers, carriers and politicians have written and spoken volumes about the status of health care benefits in 2017.

The federal government lowered a years worth of Medicare payments to 751 hospitals to penalize them for having the highest rates of patient injuries.

If the individual major medical market stays as unpredictable in 2018 as it's been in 2017, and some of that upheaval spills over into other health insurance sectors, what then?

A central plank of the $67.5 billion merger of CVS and Aetna is transforming CVS's stores into health hubs where consumers can get care, pick up their drugs, buy some milk, and stay out of the hospital.