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Md. submits plan to update all-payer health system
By Associated Press | October 12, 2013
Maryland has submitted a plan to the federal government to modernize the state's all-payer rate setting system for hospital services, Gov. Martin O'Malley announced Friday.
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Exchange variables | Finding providers depends on state
By Maureen McKinney | October 12, 2013 | Print Magazine Print Magazine Subscription Details
Choice of healthcare provider often ranks second only to cost when consumers choose a health insurance plan. But for visitors to the new federally facilitated and state-run insurance exchanges, their ability to...
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Healthcare's Hottest No. 24: Infosys Public Services
By Modern Healthcare | September 28, 2013 | Print Magazine Print Magazine Subscription Details
What it does: Infosys Public Services, a U.S.-based subsidiary of Indian firm Infosys, provides business consulting and technology products and services to healthcare and public-sector organizations.
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Doctors brace for health law's surge of ailing patients
By Bloomberg | September 23, 2013
Holy Cross Hospital's health center in Aspen Hill, Md., is bracing for more business. The center treats the uninsured, and has been busy since it opened in 2012 with a waiting list of more than 400 people at its clinic. Now, as a result of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, it's...
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Lessons in Maryland for Costs at Hospitals
By New York Times | August 28, 2013
The hardscrabble city of Cumberland, Md., makes for an unlikely hotbed of healthcare innovation. Yet Western Maryland Health Systems, the major hospital serving this poor and isolated region, is carrying out an experiment that could leave a more profound imprint on the delivery of healthcare than...
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Outliers: Bones of contention key to John Wilkes Booth mystery
By Modern Healthcare | August 17, 2013 | Print Magazine Print Magazine Subscription Details
The National Museum of Health and Medicine could hold the key to answering a controversy that's nearly 150 years old: Is President Lincoln's assassin actually buried in the historic Green Mount Cemetery in Baltimore?
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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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