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Benefits in the News > By Subject > Health plan costs - healthcare delivery Now Viewing Recent Headlines View Excerpts and Recent Headlines [Official Guidance] Form W-2 Reporting of Employer-Sponsored Health Coverage: IRS Informational Page Updated May 2, 2012 [Official Guidance] Text of CCIIO Announcement on Medical Loss Ratio Annual Reporting Form Reminding Health Insurers of June 1 Deadline (PDF) [Official Guidance] Text of CCIIO Announcement on Medical Loss Ratio Rebate Notices, Reminding Health Insurers of August 1 Deadline (PDF) Colorado Creating Online Price List of Health Care Procedures [Opinion] Looking at Single-Payor Health Care Efforts in Vermont, Montana and California [Guidance Overview] HHS Notice Addresses Rules for Insurers That Meet or Exceed Medical Loss Ratio Standards [Guidance Overview] FAQs on Summaries of Benefits and Coverage Address Electronic Distribution and Coverage Example Calculator [Guidance Overview] DOL, HHS and Treasury Guidance on SBC Requirements Provides Compliance Exceptions During First Year Health Care Costs for American Families in 2012 Exceed $20,000 for the First Time [Guidance Overview] IRS Notice 2012-31 Addresses 'Minimum Value' Determination for Employer-Sponsored Health Plans (PDF) Resource Page on Implementation of Health Insurance Medical Loss Ratios by the States, Updated May 11, 2012 [Official Guidance] Text of Official Corrections to Interim Final CMS Regs for Health Insurance Issuers Implementing Medical Loss Ratio Requirements (PDF) Innovation in the Health Care Sector Continues Some States Mandating Better Coverage of Oral Medications Used for Cancer Treatment Massachusetts May Impose 'Luxury Tax' on the State's Most Pricey Hospitals [Opinion] Why Employer-Paid Health Insurance Drives Up Health Care Costs [Guidance Overview] Preauthorization of Surgical Procedure Not Covered by the Plan Was Not a Fiduciary Breach [Official Guidance] Agencies Revise Summary of Benefits and Coverage Template and , Sample Completed SBC, and Coverage Example Calculations [Official Guidance] Text of Final CMS Regs for Medical Loss Ratio Requirements (PDF) [Official Guidance] Affordable Care Act Implementation FAQs -- Set 9 -- The Summary of Benefits and Coverage Trend in Massachusetts Experience: Small Employers Moving to Less Generous Health Insurance Plans Massachusetts Politicians Taking Different Tacks Pursuing Containment of Health Care Costs Growing Power of Some Providers to Win Steep Payment Increases from Insurers Suggests Policy Remedies May Be Needed Proposed Meaningful Use Stage 2 Regs Draw Strong Reaction More Than Half of Patients Consider Budget Before Making Medical Visits [Opinion] Innoculate the Budget Deficit from Health Care Reform In Japan, All-Payer Rate Setting Under Tight Government Control Proving to Be Effective at Containing Costs [Opinion] Fee-for-Service Model: Culprit Behind Exponential Health Care Cost Growth? [Opinion] How to Fix Our Enormous, Inefficient Health Care System [Opinion] Text of Comments by Consumer-Purchaser Disclosure Project to CMS on Health IT Meaningful Use Program (PDF) $57 Billion in Annual Health Care Savings Possible If Consumer-Directed Health Plans Were 50% of All Employer-Sponsored Insurance How Supreme Court Vote Could Affect Health Industry's Cash Flow Critics Say Health Insurance Industry Should Be Replaced by Single-Payer System Health Care Access Already in Steady Decline for Past Decade, Could Get Worse If Health Care Reform Repealed Nearly Half of Soon-to-Be-Retired, High-Net-Worth Americans 'Terrified' of Health Care Costs in Retirement [Guidance Overview] IRS Notice Requests Comments on Minimum Value and Reporting Requirements for Group Health Plans Massachusetts Lawmakers Unveil Ambitious Plan to Cut Health Care Costs [Guidance Overview] Guidance Addresses Minimum Value for Employer Plans, Information Returns, and Exchange Eligibility Determinations [Opinion] Text of Comments by American Academy of Actuaries to CMS on Revised MLR Annual Reporting Form (PDF) 'Accountable Care Organizations' Could Have Medicare Muscle to Transform the Health System How to Explain High U.S. Health Care Spending? A Look at Supply, Utilization, Prices and Quality in Other Countries [Guidance Overview] CMS Guidance Addresses Medical Loss Ratio Requirement California State Officials Launch 'Health Happens in the Workplace' Program Obesity Adds $190 Billion in Health Costs [Guidance Overview] HHS Issues Additional Questions and Answers Guidance on Medical Loss Ratio Requirements [Opinion] Saving for Future Health Care Expenses 'Choosing Wisely' Campaign Aims to Curb Wasteful Medical Spending by Consumers [Opinion] The Medical Loss Report: Fiddling While Rome Burns Health Care Spending Flattening Out What's It Take to Be a 'Bronze' Health Plan Under the Affordable Care Act? Estimating the 2012 Health Insurance Rebates Under the Medical Loss Ratio Rules Performance Improvement in Health Care Think Tank Proposes Plan to Improve Care for the Chronically Ill, Reduce Health Spending [Guidance Overview] CCIIO Issues Guidance on Medical Loss Ratio Rules [Guidance Overview] New Michigan Motorcycle Helmet Law Could Impact Self-Funded Group Health Plans Employers Try Health Gaming and the Power of Social Responses Medicare Finances: Findings of the 2012 Trustees Report (PDF) Official Summary of the 2012 Annual Reports of the Social Security and Medicare Boards of Trustees Smaller Employers Increasingly Explore Partial Self-Funding of Health Benefits Important word about authorship: BenefitsLink® (BenefitsLink.com) provides this page for you, containing selected hypertext links to pages on the web that our editors think will be useful or interesting to you. But BenefitsLink is not the author or publisher of those linked pages (except as expressly indicated). 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