preventive services

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  PPACA: The webinar answers, part 2

  By Allison Bell  |  March 22, 2013

  How will it work? Can they be serious? Will agents get paid?

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  Expat plans win PPACA reprieve

  By Allison Bell  |  March 11, 2013

  EBSA wants to wait at least until 2016 to apply PPACA to insured group benefits.

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  Feds weigh in on PPACA cost-sharing limits

  By Allison Bell  |  February 21, 2013

  Regulators want all non-grandfathered group plans — including self-insured plans — to comply.

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  Kaiser: Price not king in Medigap market

  By Allison Bell  |  February 19, 2013

  Analysts find little correlation between Plan F premiums and market share.

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  Birth control benefits: The feds try again

  By Allison Bell  |  February 1, 2013

  Regulators would still not let for-profit employers opt out of the mandate.

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  What kinds of group plan suits could PPACA spawn?

  By Allison Bell  |  January 21, 2013

  Neil Ekblom, a lawyer, speculates about the future of health law litigation.

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  Firm shielded from contraceptive mandate

  By The Associated Press  |  January 2, 2013

  For most employers, the PPACA birth control mandate took effect Tuesday.

• Federal court lets N.Y. benefits case move forward

  By Allison Bell  |  January 1, 2013

  Federal courts should put off looking at employer challenges to the birth control benefits mandate, because the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) and other departments will be releasing new regulations designed to address religious employers’ objections by August 1, 2013, according to lawyers for the government.

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  Attorney: Hobby Lobby to defy morning-after pill mandate

  By The Associated Press  |  December 28, 2012

  The company will risk fines of up to $1.3 million per day.

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  On the Third Hand: Birth control

  By Allison Bell  |  December 26, 2012

  The election season is over. Let's get real.