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Controlling costs | Some follow Oregon's lead on Medicaid reform
By Steven Ross Johnson | September 07, 2013 | Print Magazine Print Magazine Subscription Details
Some states are emulating Oregon, and others are following somewhat different paths to control Medicaid costs and improve quality of care for their low-income residents. Some are focusing first on payment and...
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Good, but not perfect | RAC program detects too little fraud: OIG report
By Joe Carlson | September 07, 2013 | Print Magazine Print Magazine Subscription Details
The hospital industry says Medicare's retrospective program of auditing hospital bills challenges too many claims that later turn out to be justified. But a report by HHS' Office of the Inspector General found that the Medicare recovery audit program is more accurate than hospital lobbyists...
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E-cigarette use penalized | Some employers imposing tobacco-use fees
By Steven Ross Johnson | August 31, 2013 | Print Magazine Print Magazine Subscription Details
Cigarette makers' growing move into electronic cigarettes is facing new resistance from large employers.
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Consulting on costs, quality | Physicians, other providers enlisted to help steer patients toward savings
By Rich Daly | August 31, 2013 | Print Magazine Print Magazine Subscription Details
To increase consumer use of cost and quality comparison tools, payers increasingly are turning to physicians and other providers, who long have resisted public release of comparative data.
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In Michigan's wake | After long battle, expansion spotlight shifts
By Jessica Zigmond | August 31, 2013 | Print Magazine Print Magazine Subscription Details
Tina Grant said she thought lobbying for expanding Medicaid in Republican-led Michigan would be like running a marathon. Instead, it turned out to be more like a triathlon.
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Selling health exchanges | States launch ad campaigns to promote online marketplaces
By Rachel Landen | August 31, 2013 | Print Magazine Print Magazine Subscription Details
The 17 states running their own health insurance exchanges are taking widely different approaches to advertising the new online marketplaces to the public.
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Republican healthcare attack shifts from defund to delay
By Bloomberg.com | August 30, 2013
Republican congressional leaders, in a fresh strategy after repeatedly failing to dismantle the healthcare law, are leaning toward an effort to postpone it rather than choke off funding.
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'Death by a thousand cuts' | Hospital execs say Medicaid expansion needed
By Jessica Zigmond | August 24, 2013 | Print Magazine Print Magazine Subscription Details
Hospitals in states forgoing the healthcare reform law's Medicaid expansion share the common challenge of caring for the uninsured without the billions in federal funds that about half of the states will start to receive next year under the expansion.
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Working to keep reform on track | A changing industry poses challenges for healthcare leaders across all sectors
By Andis Robeznieks | August 24, 2013 | Print Magazine Print Magazine Subscription Details
Now really, who else could it be? Is anyone else other than Kathleeen Sebelius managing a $941 billion budget and tasked with moving the massive reform law from paper to reality?
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The case of the disappearing subsidies | Lower-than-expected premiums push down ACA subsidies in some states
By Jonathan Block | August 24, 2013 | Print Magazine Print Magazine Subscription Details
The emergence of unexpectedly low-cost health plans in some state insurance exchanges means that federal subsidies to exchange subscribers earning less than 400% of the poverty level will be lower than expected in some states.
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