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The Minnesota Commerce Department is getting ready to preview early snapshots of next year's premium rates for the state's health insurance exchange, MNsure, according to a Star Tribune report.

Narrow networks may reduce costs, but they also restrict patient choice. South Dakota voters will head to the polls in October to determine which one of these objectives is more important, as they vote for an "any willing provider law,"…

New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo (D) has signed amendments that will require health insurance companies in the state to provide coverage for ostomy supplies and equipment starting Jan. 1, according to a report from The Wall Street Journal.

The Obama administration is reconsidering its enrollment target for the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act exchanges next year, HHS Secretary Sylvia Burwell told reporters Wednesday, according to a Los Angeles Times report.

Coverage for medications used to treat rare diseases varies widely across health plans sold through the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act exchanges, according to a study published in the Journal of Managed Care & Specialty Pharmacy.

Significantly fewer uninsured adults and children are eligible for Medicaid coverage in states that are not implementing the Medicaid expansion at this time, resulting in large populations remaining uninsured within "coverage gaps" according to a recent report by the Kaiser…

The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act's Rate Review Program has reduced total premiums for consumers and employers in the individual and small group health insurance markets by an estimated $993 million in calendar year 2013, according to an HHS…

Small-group health insurance premium fluctuations have resembled something of a roller coaster ride over the past 13 years.

The National Committee for Quality Assurance recently released its annual ranking of private health insurance plans.

The National Committee for Quality Assurance recently released their lists of top Medicare and Medicaid plans for 2014-15.