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To prevent health complications and wasted dollars caused by medications taken haphazardly, insurers and pharmacy-benefits managers are evaluating a range of more cost-effective technologies, from pills and bottles with digital sensors, to data analytics software and social games that offer...
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Where consumers live and their state's previous insurance rules may determine whether they experience “rate shock” this fall in their small business and individual plans.
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North Carolina doctors and healthcare administrators have expressed concern that allowing for-profit insurers to be one or more of the projected three statewide community-care entities could put the state's reform effort in unnecessary danger. The fear is that the insurers could leave the state if...
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Employers are increasingly recognizing they may be able to avoid certain penalties under the reform law by offering very limited plans that can lack key benefits.
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URAC, a Washington-based healthcare measurement and accreditation organization, has named Kylanne Green president and CEO, effective July 22. Green succeeds Alan Spielman, who left his post Feb. 15 after serving as president and CEO since 2005. Green, a nurse practitioner, previously...
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Celebrities drive average Americans to want what they have. That powerful impulse can even influence grave healthcare decisions and could prove complicated for women who fear they're at high risk for breast cancer after Angelina Jolie's disclosure that she underwent a preventive double...
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Consumer prices for hospital services dropped 0.7% in April, the largest one-month decline since the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics first reported the figures in January 1997. The drop follows a 0.4% increase the prior month, figures for the BLS Consumer Price Index show. In April 2012, hospital...
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The percentage of employers with grandfathered healthcare plans continues to dwindle, according to a survey released Thursday.
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When Sen. Max Baucus (D-Mont.), chairman of the powerful Senate Finance Committee, told HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius that he worried Obamacare’s implementation was headed for a “train wreck,” she publicly promised to bring him into the loop.
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Phoebe Putney Health System, which has gone to the Supreme Court and back in its quest to buy a rival hospital, lost a key legal battle when a judge imposed a restraining order on the union.
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