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Starting next year, health insurers must provide up-to-date doctor lists for their Medicare Advantage and Healthcare.gov policies, according to the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services.
As states continue to weigh their options should the Supreme Court strike down federal subsidies for health insurance in King v. Burwell, lawmakers in 12 states have proposed bills to create an insurance exchange.
The Supreme Court of the United States heard oral arguments today in the King v. Burwell case, which questions the legality of tax subsidies for health insurance purchased on Healthcare.gov. FierceHealthPayer attended the proceedings in person.
Kevin Counihan, CEO of Healthcare.gov, was on the hot seat in front of a Congressional committee hearing Thursday.
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) will hold a special enrollment period on Healthcare.gov for Americans who learned after Feb. 15 that they face a penalty for not having insurance in 2014 and who want to enroll in 2015 in order to avoid that penalty.
Around the country, states that opted to run their own insurance exchanges continue to face significant challenges. Funding problems in particular plague small states, which generate less from taxes that can be used to operate the exchanges.
As the official deadline for open enrollment closed Feb. 15 at midnight, there was both good news and bad news.
Despite the Affordable Care Act's call for standardized and transparency in health insurance pricing, consumers still struggle to determine what exactly a plan sold on Healthcare.gov will cost them.
Although insurers are still signing up new consumers for the current health insurance exchange enrollment period, they're starting to focus on next year's enrollment process to hopefully ward off major difficulties.
The Obama administration made changes to Healthcare.gov Friday after it was reported that the site might be violating consumers' privacy rights by giving their personal data, including age, income, ZIP code and various health conditions, to third-party sites.
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