Policy and Legislation

Ten million people are expected to get health insurance coverage through the Obamacare insurance exchanges by the end of 2016, Health and Human Services Secretary Sylvia Burwell announced Thursday, as the government sees more conservative growth in the future than it had hoped.

Nonprofit hospitals need to do more than ever to keep their tax-exempt status, as Section 501(r) of the Internal Revenue Code adds new requirements to any organization operating a licensed hospital to maintain these benefits.

President Barack Obama signed legislation last week that makes a significant change in the health law's small business rules, following a rare bipartisan effort to amend the health law.

Chronically ill people enrolled in individual health plans sold on the Affordable Care Act insurance exchanges pay on average twice as much out-of-pocket for prescription drugs each year than people covered through their workplace, according to a study published Monday in the Health Affairs journal.

Correctional facilities are responsible for providing health services to people who are jailed, but that doesn't mean that prisoners don't face financial charges for care. In most states they may be on the hook for copayments ranging from a few dollars to as much as $100 for medical care, according to a recent study.

The health law's upcoming enrollment period may be its toughest yet, with federal officials promising a vigorous outreach campaign to enroll millions of eligible yet hard-to-reach Americans who have yet to sign up for health insurance.

Continuum Health Partners, which merged with the Mt. Sinai Health System in 2103, is accused of improperly retaining Medicaid overpayments in a 2011 whistleblower case in which the Department of Justice intervened.

Global economic uncertainty outweighed modest increases in housing and jobs in a decision analysts believed could have gone either way.

In 2013, nearly 750,000 Coloradans were uninsured. Obamacare cut those numbers in half, to a level that was once considered unreachable.

Enrollment figures released this week by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid show close to 10 million people have signed up for insurance through the Health Insurance Marketplace, as of June 30. CMS said 9.9 million individuals had paid their premiums and had an active policy by the end of June.