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Lessons from the Hoosier State

By Rebecca Vesely
November 16, 2009
For the 25,000 low-income Hoosiers on a waiting list for Indiana's health insurance program, there might be some good news in the next few weeks. Indiana has about 4,000 slots opening up in its popular Healthy Indiana Plan.
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Taking their cuts

By Rebecca Vesely
November 09, 2009
Major employers are struggling to bend the cost curve on healthcare expenditures, and increasingly turning to cost-shifting and prevention/wellness programs to keep their workers' medical costs from spiraling out of control.
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The next makeover

By Shawn Rhea
October 19, 2009
Elliot Health System President and CEO Doug Dean doesn't tell a happy story about his hospital's foray into the world of managed care some 15 years ago.
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The fix isn't in

By Jennifer Lubell
September 21, 2009
As members of Congress roll up their sleeves to complete the huge task of reforming the healthcare system, there's little confidence that the final package will contain a permanent fix to Medicare's formula that sets payments for physicians.
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For exchange students

By Rebecca Vesely
August 17, 2009
Answering questions during a webcast earlier this month, HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius sought to clear up some confusion about how the Obama administration is proposing to reform healthcare. Would consumers continue to have health insurance choices under the proposed system? “No one will be forced into any plan,” Sebelius responded. “A new health insurance exchange will have consumers choosing options.”
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How will it end?

By Rebecca Vesely
July 20, 2009
At a nationally televised town hall meeting on healthcare reform last month, President Barack Obama was asked whether he would pay out-of-pocket for care if a close family member was extremely ill and the treatment was not covered by insurance.
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New tourist attractions

By Jennifer Lubell
June 15, 2009
Galichia Heart Hospital in Wichita, Kan., recently decided that it could break into a market monopolized by overseas hospitals—and offer high-quality, more-convenient care to patients. In conducting research of medical tourism options in other countries, “we visited hospitals in Singapore, India and the Philippines—the biggest areas drawing Americans,” says Steve Harris, the 85-bed hospital’s CEO.
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New gender agenda

By Rebecca Vesely
May 18, 2009
The longstanding practice of gender rating by health insurers—charging women higher rates than men for the same plan—is getting fresh scrutiny as lawmakers work to reshape the health insurance system.
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Feeling COBRA’s bite

By Rebecca Vesely
May 18, 2009
Listening to health insurers and employers lately, COBRA starts to sound like a fitting name for the federal program that allows laid-off workers to extend their employer-sponsored health benefits. Like the eponymous snake, the COBRA program is lying in wait, ready to strike at profit margins, some health plans are warning.
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Three flee fee-for-service Medicare

By Rebecca Vesely
May 11, 2009
Three health insurers will no longer offer Medicare Advantage private fee-for-service, or PFFS, plans starting next year, indicating that tighter federal regulations for these controversial plans, which go into effect in 2011, are causing insurers to rethink this line of business.
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