Core and Group Health

"If North Carolina is any guide, such regulation can be effective at leveling the playing field between the fully insured and self-funded markets," an analyst at Georgetown University's Center for Health Insurance Reforms said.

Earlier this month, following unfavorable court rulings, the agency halted a pilot program that would have changed the way in which rebates are applied.

Not all hospitals have fallen in line with the price transparency rules, and many were slow to do so.

Jeff Smedsrud that the draft Affordable Care Act individual health insurance market rules will make individual major medical insurance more attractive and more affordable in many markets.

Product designers are trying to prepare for the possibility that more employers will drop traditional group plans.

For the owners of plan participants' drug stores, these can be a major source of stress.