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The not-for-profit group responsible for spreading the word to the nation's uninsured about health insurance options under the health reform law is keeping tight-lipped about how much money it has raised—or budgeted—to educate tens of millions of Americans and help them enroll in...
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A smartphone app that launches this week gives the health insurance company Aetna access to detailed user health-tracking data. As costs spiral upward, healthcare companies could turn to such apps as a way to monitor customers and encourage healthy behavior.
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Hospital executives are watching to see whether the net financial gains from next year's coverage expansion under the reform law surpass losses from the law's looming reimbursement cuts.
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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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As it gets closer to the launch of the insurance expansion under healthcare reform, the voices of doom grow louder.
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The Obama administration is working to fill in the blanks on financial elements of the coming health insurance exchanges, including options for enrollees without bank accounts.
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With the coverage expansion provisions of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act just a few months away, insurers long accustomed to dealing only with major employers and their brokers are devising new strategies for marketing to individual consumers.
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Federal health officials have given final approval to a plan to overhaul Florida's safety net health insurance program. Gov. Rick Scott announced the decision on Friday, saying it would allow the state's Medicaid program to "to provide Medicaid users with quality, value-based and patient-centered...
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Like telematics in auto insurance, telehealth in health insurance provides an opportunity for insurers to have a closer dialogue with their policyholders and better manage their risk of loss. And it's growing at a similar rate: This week, three prominent insurers announced new telehealth...
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Employers are upping their estimates of how much the healthcare reform law will increase costs, according to a Mercer survey released Wednesday.
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