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Providers protest rule putting them at financial risk if patients don't pay premiums

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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Modern Healthcare reporter Jonathan Block discusses ACA on C-SPAN

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Featured Commentary

The healthcare spending slowdown

Merrill Goozner | August 10, 2013
Taken together, the ACA delivery system reforms have significantly shifted the national discussion among healthcare leaders. They are now universally...
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Fix is needed for subsidies

Donald Susswein | August 03, 2013
Four key reforms to expand insurance coverage were intended to fit together like pieces of a jigsaw puzzle; in reality, they fit like pieces from...
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Featured Content

2nd-quarter surge

Jonathan Block | August 03, 2013
Whether it's the lingering aftershock of the Great Recession, stepped-up efforts at cost control by providers or a combination of the two,...
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A different kind of Medicaid expansion

M.P. McQueen | July 27, 2013
The entry of Medicaid managed-care insurers into the exchange market will test whether a broader segment of Americans will accept the economy-class...
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Insurers

Reform Update: Sebelius open to talks on care for poor

Steven Ross Johnson | August 13, 2013
As political debate continues in nearly half of the states in the country over whether to expand their Medicaid programs, HHS Secretary Kathleen...
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Providers protest rule putting them at financial risk if patients don't pay premiums

Jonathan Block | August 13, 2013
Provider groups say a CMS rule interpreting the healthcare reform law that gives consumers a grace period for unpaid health insurance premiums will...
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Premiums and Benefits

Analysis: In Obamacare rate debate, price gets political

Reuters | August 03, 2013
With the October 1 date for enrollment in the health insurance exchanges being created by Obamacare less than two months away, a war of numbers has...
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Md. insurance official approves healthcare rates

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...
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Medicare

Obamacare is forcing physicians to change

Morning Call (Allentown, Pa.) | August 13, 2013
With the main provisions of the Affordable Care Act—the most sweeping changes in the nation's healthcare system since the passage of Medicare...
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Reform Update: AMA blasts new Medicare physician fee schedule, defends RUC

Andis Robeznieks | August 12, 2013
The AMA has issued a strong criticism of the proposed 2014 Medicare physician-fee schedule, and also fired back against attacks on its Medicare...
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Medicaid

Reform Update: Sebelius open to talks on care for poor

Steven Ross Johnson | August 13, 2013
As political debate continues in nearly half of the states in the country over whether to expand their Medicaid programs, HHS Secretary Kathleen...
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Reform Update: AMA blasts new Medicare physician fee schedule, defends RUC

Andis Robeznieks | August 12, 2013
The AMA has issued a strong criticism of the proposed 2014 Medicare physician-fee schedule, and also fired back against attacks on its Medicare...
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Wellness and Prevention

UnitedHealth's patient engagement program sees health improvements, study says

Joseph Conn | August 06, 2013
A patient engagement and reporting program linked to financial incentives yielded multiple improvements in health measures for employees of...
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On the warpath against wellness

Modern Healthcare | July 27, 2013
The authors of Cracking Health Costs say more companies should re-evaluate their approach to wellness programs.
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