Obama Administration Rolls Out Proposed Rule on Insurance Market Changes

The long-anticipated next steps in a complicated regulatory dance involving the federal government, states, and health insurers were laid out by the Obama administration last week, and federal officials acknowledged that there is much more work ahead. Read more »

Essential Health Benefits Proposal Gives States Flexibility, Expands Prescription Drug Requirements

After months of delay, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services has finally released a proposed rule that establishes the essential benefits that health insurance plans must offer under the health care law. Read more »

Proposed Rule Sets Standards for Wellness Programs

Federal officials recently released a proposed rule that would increase the allowed amount of financial rewards or penalties associated with meeting certain goals in employer wellness programs designed to promote good health or prevent disease among workers. Read more »

Lots of Regs, but What About the Federal Exchange?

Missing from last week's massive release of hundreds of pages of proposed rules filling in the details of the sweeping redesign of the insurance market, set in motion 32 months ago by passage of the health care law, were details on an entity looming ever larger in delivering the fruits of that legislation: the federally facilitated exchange. Read more »

Official Offers Inside Peek at the CMS Innovation Center

It wasn't quite everything you always wanted to know about the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation. But remarks this week by an official about what is essentially the overhaul law's laboratory for health care redesign were an eye-opener. Read more »

Enroll America Gears Up for Coverage Expansion Effort

Those spearheading a broad-based, privately funded educational campaign to enroll the uninsured in health plans as part of the health care overhaul are in the closing stages of pinpointing what messages they will use and which audiences the effort will target. Read more »