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Providers protest rule putting them at financial risk if patients don't pay premiums
By Jonathan Block | August 13, 2013 | Basic Web Basic Web Subscription Details
Provider groups say a CMS rule interpreting the healthcare reform law that gives consumers a grace period for unpaid health insurance premiums will put them at significant risk of delivering services for which they won't get paid.
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A limit on consumer costs is delayed in reform law
By New York Times | August 13, 2013
The Obama administration has delayed until 2015 a significant consumer protection in the reform law that limits how much people may have to spend on their own healthcare.
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FTC, Phoebe Putney in settlement talks over disputed acquisition
By Joe Carlson | August 12, 2013 | Basic Web Basic Web Subscription Details
The Federal Trade Commission and Phoebe Putney Health System are in settlement talks to resolve a bitterly disputed court battle over a $200 million hospital acquisition in southwest Georgia.
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Oregon delays wide access to Obamacare insurance exchange
By Reuters | August 12, 2013
The online insurance exchange that Oregon established under the healthcare law will not allow residents to sign up for coverage on their own when enrollment begins nationwide on Oct. 1.
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Analysis shows overall improvements in care at N.Y. hospitals
By Michael Virtanen / Associated Press | August 11, 2013
A new analysis of New York hospital data showed a reduction in surgical death rates and improvements in treating serious illnesses over a decade despite higher post-surgical infections and deaths from operations where part of the skull is removed.
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The new normal? | Shift to outpatient care, payer pressure hit hospitals
By Beth Kutscher and Melanie Evans | August 10, 2013 | Print Magazine Print Magazine Subscription Details
Three years ago, Henry Ford Health System began to overhaul how its doctors and nurses care for patients outside the Detroit-based system's six hospitals. Now it must face the economic strains of its own success, as fewer patients turn up to fill hospital beds.
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In Obamacare rate debate, price gets political
By Reuters | August 09, 2013
With the Oct. 1 date for enrollment in the health insurance exchanges being created by Obamacare less than two months away, a war of numbers has been escalating. Health insurance will cost way less. Or it will cost way more. It depends who you ask.
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Dallas officials unite to plan for new health coverage marketplace
By Dallas Morning News | August 09, 2013
Sandy McCoy, president of the Texas Nurse Practitioners, listened to Judge Clay Jenkins at the Enroll Dallas County Partnership Stakeholders Meeting. With an unveiling a little more than 50 days away, many of the key details about the new health insurance marketplace remain under wraps.
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Insurance agents push state regulation of navigators
By Center for Public Integrity | August 09, 2013
Over the past three years, insurance groups have waged an intense but little-noticed effort to regulate navigators in the states, leading to the passage of 16 state laws in the past year and a half.
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Insurers pressed to send patient coverage information to providers
By Joseph Conn | August 08, 2013 | Basic Web Basic Web Subscription Details
Health insurers face a new requirement to rapidly communicate electronically with providers whether a patient has coverage and how much treatment will cost the patient in co-pays and deductibles.
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