The new Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act health insurance fee could add about 1.7 percent to the cost of commercial coverage from a for-profit plan in 2014.

The U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday decided 5-4 that a federal court can use equitable law principles when a group health plan contract governed by the Employee Retirement Income Security Act (ERISA) is silent about a legal issue.

A team of state insurance regulators is trying to figure out how the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act might affect or not health plans that operate outside the PPACA health insurance exchange system.

Members of the Regulatory Framework Task Force are wondering whether they should develop a new model law and a new model regulation that could shake up the entire group health insurance market.

Genworth Financial Inc. will temporarily suspend individual long-term care insurance policy sales in a major market, California, starting March 21.

The California Health Benefit Exchange board is standardizing the co-payment amounts, coinsurance percentages and other plan design features in all new individual and small-group health policies sold in the state.

The minimum essential coverage and shared responsibility provisions include exemptions.

The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) seems to be reading some Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA) employer coverage mandate provisions in ways that could help employers.