America's Health Insurance Plans (AHIP) news and information

Providers who have been using low-dose CT scans to screen patients at high risk for lung cancer are a step closer to receiving Medicare and private insurance reimbursement for their services.
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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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A new study predicts that people who already buy their own health insurance plans will face huge premium hikes when the exchanges created by the reform law open for business later this year.
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As insurers prepare to submit 2014 premium rates to state regulators next month, some stakeholders are questioning whether the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act will be affordable after all.
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Final rules implementing individual and group insurance market reforms under the healthcare reform law were issued by HHS late last week.
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HHS has offered a picture of what it expects certain insurance payment and coverage provisions to look like in 2014, and, when it comes to payment rates, insurers don't like what they see.
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The trade group for U.S. health plans has registered its opinion in one of the hardest-fought hospital mergers in a decade, urging the 6th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals to support the Federal Trade Commission's intent to undo ProMedica's 2010 acquisition of St. Luke's Hospital in Maumee, Ohio.
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The AMA's annual report on the health insurance marketplace suggests that 70% of metropolitan markets lack competition among insurers, prompting a quick critical response from a payers trade group.
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Modern Healthcare reporters are tracking healthcare leaders' reaction to President Barack Obama's re-election and what the election means for the healthcare industry
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When Aetna received an award this month for its disease-prevention work among Texas beneficiaries, it decided to send a public shout-out to Brazilian breakbeat DJ and process engineer Andre Porto.
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