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Reform: Plan changes employers are making to deal with the law
The healthcare reform studies keep coming. One of the latest reveals the steps employers are taking to revamp their plans to comply with the reform law’s provisions and control the resulting cost...
View ArticleNew list of 8 preventive services plans must cover for women
A few more preventive medical services were tacked on to the list non-grandfathered health plans must fully cover for participants. The set of women’s preventive services — which was developed by the...
View ArticlePush growing to end reform’s OTC rule
A cost-analysis by the Consumer Healthcare Products Association found 50 million unnecessary visits to doctors could be eliminated and billions saved if the health reform law’s over-the-counter (OTC)...
View ArticleObama makes risky healthcare move: High Court to rule soon
The White House has declined to appeal a lower court’s ruling that the health reform law is unconstitutional. So it appears the Supreme Court could rule on the matter by the 2012 presidential election....
View Article3 questions the Supreme Court will answer about healthcare reform
The challenge to the healthcare reform act is finally on the Supreme Court’s calendar. Here are the three questions the court will try to answer when it hears the case in March. The court will spend...
View ArticleSeeking more cash, less waste for workers’ comp recipients
Typically, when it comes to lawmaking, what happens in California doesn’t stay in California. So this workers’ comp fight in the state is worth keeping an eye on. Gov. Jerry Brown (D) is calling for...
View ArticleHealth reform head-scratcher: Pay the penalty or keep coverage?
Should you drop healthcare coverage for employees come 2014 or not? It’s the $50,000 question, and another organization has weighed in with its findings in a new study. Truven Health Analytics (PDF)...
View Article88% of firms will keep offering healthcare coverage
Another day, another study on what companies plan to do when the bulk of healthcare reform changes take effect in 2014. Most companies (88%) said they plan on continuing to offer healthcare benefits...
View Article8 Obamacare mandates employers are still forced to deal with
Amidst the celebrating that they can’t be penalized for violating Obamacare’s “employer play or pay mandate” until 2015, companies need to be careful not to overlook the other reform law requirements...
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Health reform tweak Congress hopes will get you to hire more vets
New legislation appears poised to make it through Congress that would incentivize businesses to hire military veterans by altering one of the more controversial rules for employers under the Affordable...
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