Author: Kelly Gooch

The Affordable Care Act guarantees healthcare rights for people living with HIV and other chronic conditions. But some insurers in the ACA marketplaces prevent these patients from receiving necessary care through discriminatory practices, such as refusing to cover key medications…

Consumers will see standardized health plans as an option when they go to shop on the Affordable Care Act's health insurance marketplace for 2017 coverage, reports The New York Times.

Two of the three insurers in North Carolina's Affordable Care Act marketplace will pull its plans from the exchange in 2017, reports The Washington Post.

For Medicare's 2017 open enrollment, Anthem Blue Cross and Blue Shield is launching a $0 premium Medicare Advantage health maintenance organization plan in six Connecticut counties. It will also add a post-discharge meal benefit to its existing dual-eligible special needs…

The federal government has developed a new policy to ensure consumers whose insurers have left the Affordable Care Act marketplace maintain coverage in 2017, reports The New York Times.

Figures released by CMS show that U.S. government health plans spent more than $1 billion on Mylan's EpiPens in a five-year period, reports Reuters.

A new study from PwC's Risk Assurance practice shows that healthcare providers and payers are often not aligned when it comes to navigating risk management challenges.

Federal officials have ended their latest efforts to ban the sale of stand-alone fixed indemnity insurance plans that do not meet the standards of the Affordable Care Act, reports The Wall Street Journal.

Due to marketplace challenges, Helena, Mont.-based health insurer New West Health plans to close its doors by mid-2017, reports Daily Inter Lake.

The Alabama Medicaid Agency plans to restore enhanced payments to primary care physicians, reports Montgomery Advertiser.