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Reform Update: Medicaid, CHIP could gain 18 million more enrollees if all states expanded programs, study says
By Steven Ross Johnson | August 06, 2013 | Basic Web Basic Web Subscription Details
While a new report estimates millions of people could be added to Medicaid and CHIP if all states expanded the programs under the ACA, several states have refused, leaving thousands without coverage.
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Md. insurance official approves healthcare rates
By Brian Witte / Associated Press | July 26, 2013
Newly approved rates for health plans that will be sold in the individual market through Maryland's new health benefit exchange will have some of the lowest costs among the 12 states that have either proposed or approved rates, the state's insurance commissioner said Friday.
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Reform Update: Texas moves to avert access issues
By Andis Robeznieks | July 01, 2013 | Basic Web Basic Web Subscription Details
With the anticipated arrival of some 14 million newly insured individuals into the nation's healthcare system in 2014, a major concern that remains is whether coverage will equal access. Texas lawmakers, physicians and nurse practitioners have taken a step forward on that problem while many other...
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Medical home initiative reduces costs
By Melanie Evans | June 07, 2013 | Basic Web Basic Web Subscription Details
One of the insurance industry's medical home experiments has slowed costs and significantly lifted quality scores in its second year of operation, raising hopes for pilot programs initiated under the 2010 healthcare reform legislation.
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Three Md. abortion clinic doctors lose licenses
By Baltimore Sun | June 07, 2013
The state suspended the medical licenses of three doctors at abortion clinics accused by state regulators of putting women's health at risk—including one case in which a woman died.
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Navigator organizations fight concerns about fraud, lack of training
By Jonathan Block | June 05, 2013 | Basic Web Basic Web Subscription Details
With details for insurance exchanges still in the works, navigator organizations are starting to hire staff while also fending off concerns over conflicts of interest and the potential for fraud.
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Reform Update: Rhode Island sets sights on healthcare overhaul
By Melanie Evans | May 22, 2013 | Basic Web Basic Web Subscription Details
Rhode Island policymakers and the state's healthcare industry began to draft plans last month on how best to overhaul payment to hospitals, doctors and other providers and simultaneously improve the health and well-being of its citizens.
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Aggressive cost-cutting | Maryland wants to tie spending increases to economic growth
By Melanie Evans | April 13, 2013 | Print Magazine Print Magazine Subscription Details
An ambitious plan to revamp Maryland's unusual system of setting hospital prices would create and enforce a cap on hospital spending growth. In so doing, the state may push providers to address the other driver of rising healthcare costs: how often and where medical care is delivered.
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Navigators hit some turbulence | Brokers and agents push for tighter regulation of insurance exchange helpers
By Jonathan Block | April 13, 2013 | Print Magazine Print Magazine Subscription Details
Help for consumers who want to purchase health insurance plans through the new exchanges will be coming to Georgia this year in the form of paid “navigators” earning from $20 to $38 an hour.
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Physicians seek curbs on insurer limits for medications
By The (Annapolis, Md.) Capital Gazette | March 25, 2013
It's taken years for Dr. Ronald Sroka, a Crofton, Md., primary care physician, to hone his skill at prescribing what he considers the right medications. His patients' insurance companies may not agree. And in what's called “step therapy,” those insurers can also refuse to pay for drugs...
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