CAHU NEWS ALERTS
- Senators: Review Calif. health exchange secrecy
- State Health Insurance Exchange To Be Voter Registration Hub
- California's Pre-Existing Conditions Insurance Plan (PCIP) Transitions to Federal PCIP Program on July 1, 2013
- UnitedHealth, Eatna and Cigna opt out of California insurance exchange
- Insurance exec sees rate spike under health reform
- Slowdown in Health Costs’ Rise May Last as Economy Revives
- Obama Discusses Health Exchanges, Premiums With Insurance Leaders
- Colleagues and Interested Parties:
This is to advise you we sent out an announcement today regarding the selection of a contractor to administer our Small Business Health Options Program. Pinnacle will help with initial implementation, administrative functions, eligibility, enrollment, marketing and fulfillment services as well as agent and general agent sales management, financial management. They will also lead a call center for the Small Business Options Program. A press release on the announcement is available here. - Health law provision for small firms is delayed
- The highs and lows of California's health care spending
- Study: Health law to raise claims cost 32 percent
- Richer health benefits cost 47% more, industry report warns
- ModernHealthCare.com Most states earn 'F' in price transparency: report
- Study ties employer wellness initiatives to steep drop in hospital stays
- Annual Medicare, Medicaid spending in California tops $100 billion
- Latest News From Covered California
- Insurance commissioner touts new plan for CA health-care regions
- California health exchange rolls out coverage options
- State lacks doctors to meet demand of national healthcare law
- URGENT: Governor Brown Calls Extraordinary Session to Implement Federal Health Care Reform
- California Exchange News
- Joint comments submitted to CA Health Benefit Exchange by CAHU/NAIFA-CA/IBA West
- For insurance exchanges, states need ‘navigators’ — and hiring them is a huge task
- Obama health law will cost $1.3T, CBO says
- Obama administration takes steps to implement individual mandate
- Latest grant helps California health exchange plan move forward
- Producers to Feds: Beware of game
- Guidance Issued on Medicaid Expansion, Health Plan Exchanges
- House OKs bill to avert fiscal cliff, doc pay cut.
- Californians To Watch in 2013: John A. Perez faces pivotal year in Legislature, political career
- Californians to Watch in 2013: Peter Lee will launch California's health exchange
- Blue Shield of California seeks rate hikes up to 20%
- California's recovery raises hopes for restoring health, social service cuts
- Commonwealth Fund Study Shows CA Health Insurers Increased Profits In Individual Market Despite New Medical Loss Ratio Requirements
- Dooley: Medi-Cal Transition Will Begin in Jan. Despite Concerns
- Parity for Behavioral Health Coverage Delayed by Lack of Federal Rules
- Anthem Blue Cross seeks to raise individual policyholders' rates
- Health overhaul could mean crowds, some leaders say
- Obama administration officials propose altered rules for health insurers
- Obama administration moves forward to implement health care law, ban discrimination against people with pre-existing conditions
- California works to get word out on health insurance exchange
- Essential benefits rules go to OMB for review
- Connie Conway re-elected as Assembly GOP leader
- CBO: Federal healthcare costs skyrocketing
- Health insurers line up to compete in California's exchange
- Some Employers Might Reduce Workers' Hours To Avoid ACA Penalties
- VSP to add 400 jobs after favorable state ruling
- States seek help making health exchange rules
- How to Deal With Remaining Millions Uninsured
- State program for medically uninsurable lowers premiums
- CHBRP pediatric-dental-vision-policy-brief.pdf
- State-Run Retirement Plan Gaining National Attention, Some Say
- Healthcare reform a focal point in Romney, Obama's first debate
- Governor signs key health reform bills, vetoes others
- Large Firms Announce Significant Changes to Health Care Benefits
- Calif. Hospital Association chief defends consolidation efforts
- Premiums for family health plans hit $15,745
- Spending likely to remain high
- California had ninth-highest medically uninsured rate in 2010
- Obama-Ryan Battle Intensifies Over Medicare Savings
- Obama pushes for state help on health exchanges
- Romney Pick Puts Medicare in Bull's-Eye
- Massachusetts Aims to Cut Growth of Its Health Costs
- Exchange Maps Out Plan for Next Year
- Small Firms See Pain in Health Law
- California's subsidized health insurance 'marketplace' takes shape
- Insurance rebates due Wednesday
- Doctor Shortage Likely to Worsen With Health Law
- State health insurance exchange will provide gateway to affordability, official says
- Brawling Over Health Care Moves to Rules on Exchanges
- Blue Shield plan to close policies to new customers is denied
- Diana Dooley: California in 'full go mode' on health care reform
- CAHU RESPONSE TO SUPREME COURT DECISION ON HEALTH CARE
- Gov. Jerry Brown, Democratic leaders agree on welfare changes in California budget
- California to lose big if Supreme Court scraps U.S. healthcare law
- White House, lawmakers prepare for Supreme Court ruling on Obama’s health-care law
- UnitedHealth to honor some of healthcare law regardless of ruling
- New limits on Section 125 FSA Accounts
- State-based insurance marketplaces hang in balance of Supreme Court health-care ruling
- Putting the 'Insurance' Back in Health Insurance
- HHS strives for healthcare accountability with web-based tool
- Report: Millions of employers fail to claim healthcare tax credit
- Health Care Costs 101
- Study says hospital charges don't add up
- Obama’s below-the-radar push builds support for healthcare reform law
- U.S. outspends 12 other countries on healthcare, report says...
- Insurance rate-hike initiative gains high-profile backers
- California Health Benefit Exchange – April 26, 2012
- Proposed limits on health self-insurance plans debated
- U.S. consumers turn to Facebook, Twitter for healthcare answers
- Californians Struggle To Find Accurate Medical Pricing
- Cuomo Acts to Advance Health Law in New York
- President Confident Health Law Will Stand
- Officials ponder how to ensure healthcare reform in California
- Conservative Justices Question Reform Law's Individual Mandate
- Supreme Court appears unlikely to put off healthcare ruling
- California seeks limits on small-business self-insurance trend
- Anthem Blue Cross to cut rate hikes for some California customers
- Budget analyst: Tax revenue less than Jerry Brown projects
- Interaction between California StateBenefit Mandates and the AffordableCare Act’s “Essential HealthBenefits
- HHS Issues Final Rule on State Health Insurance Exchanges
- Quality of care information online
- Estimates of Sources of Health Insurance in California, 2012
- Quality of care information online
- California health insurers to raise average rates 8% to 14%
- At-Risk Patients Gain Attention of Health Insurers
- The National Association of Health Underwriters' state presidents from California, Alabama and Maryland share what they hope to achieve while meeting with their members of Congress on Capitol Hill during NAHU's annual Capitol Conference in Washington, D.C.
- Emergency Regulation Requiring Health Insurers to Put More Premiums Into Medical Care, Not Overhead and Profits, Is Made Permanent
- Health Reform to Require Insurers to Use Plain Language in Describing Health Plan Benefits, Coverage
- GOP senators unveil new Medicare overhaul plan
- States say Supreme Court must strike healthcare mandate
- Sen. Feinstein backs health insurance rate controls
- Justice Dept. to SCOTUS: Don't overturn entire law
- CALL TO ACTION: SB 810: UNIVERSAL SINGLE PAYER BILL FAILS FIRST TRY TO PASS STATE SENATE
- IRS could face glut of health law tax appeals
- States Argue That Health Reform Law's Medicaid Expansion Is Coercive
- The 11 Most Important New Health Insurance LawsFrom the 2011 California Legislative Session
- Committee vote on single-payer health bill delayed until Thursday
- California has largest pre-existing condition insurance plan
- Employers Wait For Guidance
Employers in limbo as health reform remains uncertain - 1/3/2012 - UPDATE on Proposed AB 52-Style Rate Regulation Initiative
AB 52 SAMPLE LETTER - California Health Benefit Exchange 12-27-2011
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