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Visitors to the glitch-plagued HealthCare.gov site now can bypass the temperamental application interface and compare plans anonymously, as some of the state-run exchanges previously made possible. HHS added the feature after 10 days marked by system outages and lengthy wait times.
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A credit analyst for not-for-profit healthcare providers cautions that the new state health insurance exchanges may introduce more short-term risk than benefit.
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Community Health Systems still expects to own Health Management Associates within the next six months in spite of developments on two fronts that could extend the review period for the transaction between the two investor-owned chains.
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CaroMont Health in Gastonia, N.C., is suing the company that used to staff its hospitalist medicine program, alleging breach of contract and unfair and deceptive labor practices.
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The partisan split over the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act at the center of the budget impasse that shut down the federal government last week reflects sharp divisions in the public's view of the law.
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A bipartisan House measure to repeal the 2.3% medical device excise tax that helps fund the healthcare reform law has been floated as a compromise to end the federal government shutdown. Reps. Charlie Dent (R-Pa.) and Ron Kind (D-Wis.) were leading a...
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Look for more states to warm to some sort of Medicaid expansion now that the Obama administration proved it will bend to get states on board. On Friday, the CMS granted Arkansas a Medicaid waiver allowing the state...
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Audits or not, providers want the CMS to hold off on the new “two-midnights” rule for outpatient observation claims and change course on an accompanying reimbursement cut. Attempting to answer widespread anger among hospitals and doctors about the policy, CMS officials said that
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As Congress remains paralyzed over a short-term spending bill to fund the government after Sept. 30, analysts are looking ahead at key health policy issues other than the reform law that have taken a back seat during the spending fights and at how, where and when they might resurface.
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House Republicans passed a $986 billion measure to fund the government through mid-December, but they can expect to get it back soon from the Senate because of the GOP's ongoing fight to dismantle the 2010 healthcare reform law.
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