The HFMA on Sunday released new guidelines aimed at improving provider communications with patients about paying for care.
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An estimated 22,300 poor, uninsured New Hampshire adults are caught in a philosophical crossfire over whether to expand Medicaid under President Barack Obama's federal healthcare overhaul law.
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Economic forces and changes in insurance arrangements are expected to increase volatility in the healthcare business.
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The California Legislature on Saturday passed a major piece of the federal Affordable Care Act, opting to expand Medicaid to 1.4 million low-income Californians, as it rushed to meet its deadline to complete a state budget for the coming fiscal year.
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Far from reversing course, Senate Democrats who backed President Barack Obama's healthcare law and now face re-election in GOP-leaning states are firming up their support for the overhaul even as Republican criticism intensifies.
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Maine's Republican Gov. Paul LePage on Friday signed a bill authorizing the state to pay off hundreds of millions of dollars owed to Maine's hospitals for Medicaid services, but he remained silent on whether he plans to approve the state's budget or a proposal to expand healthcare coverage under the federal healthcare overhaul.
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The media-fueled saga of 10-year-old cystic fibrosis patient Sarah Murnaghan ended happily last week for her and her family. But the successful legal and publicity campaign that allowed her to leap to the front of the waiting list for a life-saving lung transplant highlights an underlying dilemma.
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Plenty of unknown financial challenges await Carolinas HealthCare System with the rollout of health reform provisions next year. What's not uncertain is whether more of Carolinas' patients will have high-deductible insurance plans with cost-sharing provisions they often cannot afford.
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Like partners choosing up for a dance—or, depending on one's outlook for the healthcare industry, teams forming for a game of dodgeball—providers organizations aiming to be early adopters of Big Data and large-scale analytics programs are busy picking out their advisers and IT providers.
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Medicare patients who have been treated for prostate cancer and other solid tumors will continue to have access to PET scans to guide subsequent therapy. Physicians, patients and medical imaging companies talked the CMS out of virtually ending payment for post-treatment PET scans.
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