Monday, March 4, 2013

White House Releases 700 Pages of Rules on Implementing the ACA

California Healthline
On Friday, the Obama administration released more than 700 pages of new regulations on the implementation of various aspects of the Affordable Care Act, The Hill's "RegWatch" reports. Three of the four sets of rules have been finalized and take effect on May 11. All four sets are scheduled to be published sometime in the middle of this month. They cover the ACA's health insurance exchanges and new standards and reforms to the insurance market, such as encouraging cost-sharing, stabilizing health insurance premiums and blocking insurers from denying coverage, "RegWatch" reports.