Health Care Reform

With major health care reform changes planned for 2014, many employees are unaware of how this new marketplace will affect them, and its important that employers get in front of the necessary communication now, says Jackie Cuthbert, principal at Mercer, a human resources consulting firm in New York City.

More states are moving forward to implement health reform and the exchanges that play a major role in the law, the Department of Health and Human Services said Thursday.

Thousands of non-English speaking Floridians who go online to sign up for Medicaid and other welfare programs are met with a frustrating barrier the state's main webpage is only in English, even though the applications a few clicks away are translated in Spanish and Creole. Health advocates worry how...

Democrats in the Mississippi Legislature say they're trying a new approach to push for Medicaid expansion an issue they support and Republican leaders oppose.

The Obama administration Wednesday announced a major push to prioritize the adoption of health information technology in the health care industry in 2013.

The Minnesota House passed a bill Monday establishing the state's health insurance exchange, the first step toward enactment of an online marketplace that aims to give more than a million Minnesotans a new place to purchase affordable health insurance.

Oregon's health insurance exchange will have staff who speak Spanish, Russian and Vietnamese to help explain and market the service that's expected to provide health coverage to thousands of Oregonians.

Health and Human Services releases long-awaited rules that expand and update the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act.