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Massachusetts' highest court ruled Thursday that the state must offer the same level of subsidized insurance to legal immigrants as to citizens. The decision affects roughly 40,000 residents and could cost the state at least $150 million per year.
Employers, insurers and hospitals are banding together in several areas of the country to tackle cost and quality issues.
Kansas and Oklahoma are the seventh and eighth states to get the thumbs down from the federal government on their requests to phase in new regulations that could result in health insurance rebates to consumers.
Some companies are also penalizing employees who don't give up cigarettes by hitting them with higher health insurance premiums.
He's done with mandates, but Newt Gingrich likes John Goodman's idea for helping people who buy insurance and paying for care for those who don't.
KHN reporters preview some of the big issues coming this year: KHN Senior Correspondent Julie Appleby discusses what changes could be in store for insurers.
Technical, political and financial obstacles loom as clock ticks toward 2014 deadline for operations.
Experts in pediatric obesity say that caution is warranted, but some physicians see the operations as offering a safe chance to take off significant weight and avoid harmful disease.
KHN's "Insuring Your Health" consumer columnist Michelle Andrews answers a question about what to do when you're billed by an out-of-network doctor for an in-network hospital visit.
Until now, an insurance exchange in Minnesota, which will allow consumers to buy health insurance online and is part of the health overhaul, has been just an abstract idea. But now, prototypes for public review are now available online.
Although few employers have used this strategy, consultants say it could help many in 2014 meet new requirements in the health law.
A loophole in the health law could allow employers to game the system by dumping their sicker employees onto health insurance exchanges.
KHN's "Insuring Your Health" columnist Michelle Andrews answers a question from a reader about whether or not insurers are required to cover maternity care on the individual market.
The push for better coordination of patient care, including the adoption of electronic medical records, should help improve the delivery of test results to patients from doctors and to doctors from those who perform the tests.
Michelle Andrews answers a question from a mother about a provision in the health law about extending coverage to children under the age of 26.
Georgia is not alone. A number of Republican states, including some in the South, are hedging their bets and planning health insurance marketplaces to avoid a version designed by Washington.
Our "Insuring Your Health" columnist Michelle Andrews has advice on how to pick a plan for next year, including: Don't assume your plan will be the same next year.
The state is likely to decide against creating its own exchange, opting instead to let the federal government build the marketplace, one of the central features of the health law.
In this analysis, Stuart Taylor writes that the case is "especially momentous" because it will determine the future of the health law -- President Barack Obama's signature legislative achievement. The ruling also will likely occur during the midst of the 2012 presidential election season.
Health Savings Accounts are increasingly among the options that consumers can consider when making their health insurance choices. Here are some of the advantages and disadvantages they offer.
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