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Reform Update: Slow start predicted for expanded Medicaid enrollment

By Rich Daly | June 18, 2013 | Basic Web

Officials hoping to enroll millions more beneficiaries into Medicaid programs this fall are signaling the possibility of a slow start. Ultimately, they hope to use some past success to overcome obstacles that have long left uncovered millions of Medicaid-eligible enrollees.
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Insurer calls for payer-provider collaboration to cut costs

By Beth Kutscher | June 18, 2013 | Basic Web

Costs are expected to rise after reform fully rolls out, and payers and providers need to transform their relationship.
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Expert warns of flawed price transparency effort

By Rich Daly | June 17, 2013 | Basic Web

One expert is waving a warning flag at the federal government's race to increase healthcare price transparency.
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Campaign aims to educate uninsured about ACA coverage options

By Jessica Zigmond | June 17, 2013 | Basic Web

Enroll America today will launch Get America Covered, a campaign to educate Americans about the coverage options available to them under the 2010 health reform law.
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Arizona Gov. Brewer signs Medicaid expansion

By Bob Christie / Associated Press | June 17, 2013

Republican Gov. Jan Brewer on Monday signed a law expanding the state's Medicaid program to 300,000 more poor Arizonans following her victory over conservatives in her own party opposed to embracing a key part of President Barack Obama's health care overhaul.
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Reform Update: McClellan sees Pioneer quality measures having wide impact

By Melanie Evans | June 17, 2013 | Basic Web

Debate over quality measures among Medicare's first accountable care organizations and federal officials will likely have significance for the 220 (and growing) other accountable care efforts under Medicare, a former CMS administrator says.
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Financial managers warned about growing revenue volatility

By Gregg Blesch | June 16, 2013 | Basic Web

Economic forces and changes in insurance arrangements are expected to increase volatility in the healthcare business.
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N.H. budget battle over Medicaid affects 58,000

By Norma Love / Associated Press | June 16, 2013

An estimated 22,300 poor, uninsured New Hampshire adults are caught in a philosophical crossfire over whether to expand Medicaid under President Barack Obama's federal healthcare overhaul law.
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Shifting burdens | Hospitals increasingly concerned over effects of cost-sharing provisions in health plans to be offered through insurance exchanges

By Rich Daly | June 15, 2013 | Print Magazine

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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Calif. lawmakers expand Medicaid in final budget voting

By Judy Lin and Laura Olson / Associated Press | June 15, 2013

The California Legislature on Saturday passed a major piece of the federal Affordable Care Act, opting to expand Medicaid to 1.4 million low-income Californians, as it rushed to meet its deadline to complete a state budget for the coming fiscal year.
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