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Wash. Rejection Of 5 Companies’ Health Plans Draws Criticism
Critics say the rejection of individual plans from five companies that applied to sell inside the insurance marketplace will limit consumer choices and hurt continuity of care.
Obamacare Presents Complex Choices For People With Disabilities
Some categories of essential benefits under the health law, like maternity care and preventive care, are straightforward. But “habilitative services” — including treatments like physical and speech therapy — are much more subjective.
Supreme Court Decision On Same-Sex Marriage Leaves Many Couples Awaiting Federal Rules On Insurance
The recent ruling on the Defense of Marriage Act didn’t address question of tax implications for health care for couples who live in a state that doesn’t recognize marriages.
Talking The Health Law’s Impact On Hospitals Serving Medicare Patients
KHN Reporter Jordan Rau was on C-SPAN’s Washington Journal Monday where he talked about the latest round of readmissions penalties in Medicare. Read more: Armed With Bigger Fines, Medicare To Punish 2,225 Hospitals For Excess Readmissions KHN reporters will be returning to C-SPAN’s Washington Journal each Monday throughout the summer. Tune in each week to stay […]
Obama’s Health Law Promises Put To The Test
The Hill checks up on five health law promises from the president as implementation continues. Meanwhile, Kaiser Health News examines how some low-income people might gain insurance if their state doesn’t expand its Medicaid program, but the strategy will carry risks.
State Health Insurance Marketplaces Progress With Fits And Starts
The Washington Post reports on tools that will be available to residents in D.C., Maryland and Virginia to help them get up to speed on the health law, and The Associated Press details how some insurers are opening retail stores to help educate potential consumers about the health law. Other news outlets report on the latest developments in Georgia, Oregon, California, Idaho, Pennsylvania, New Jersey and Minnesota.
Foreign Docs Face Challenging Transition To U.S. System
News outlets report on issues ranging from how foreign doctors are assimilated into the U.S. health care system to how nurse practitioners might help address the physician shortage and the job market nurses are facing.
More High-Deductible Plan Members Can’t Pay Hospital Bills
As employers and insurance companies shift more health costs into workers’ pockets, hospitals are making a discovery. The pockets aren’t bottomless. “The number of accounts that we’re seeing that relate to these high-deductible plans has been building, and it has been putting pressure on our bad debt levels,” Tenet Healthcare financial chief Daniel Cancelmi told […]
A selection of editorials and opinions on health care from around the country.
Obama Urges Veterans To Speak Up For The Health Law
President says overhaul won’t affect veterans’ benefits. Meanwhile, religious leaders in Illinois are promoting the law.
Medtronic Adds Disease Management To Its Portfolio
Medtronic wades into the business of disease management in a bid to find business outside its medical device offerings. In the meantime, a popular calorie-counting app gets $18 million in new venture capital funding.
U.S. Probes Whether Medicaid Programs Over-Prescribe Antipsychotics To Children
In the meantime, a Texas compounding pharmacy has become the latest to have its products recalled over meningitis concerns.
Abortion Fights In The States Turn To Digital World
Eleven states now ban abortion by telemedicine, the Guttmacher Institute says in a new study. In the meantime, the Government Accountability Office is investigating how Planned Parenthood and other related organizations spend public money.
Advocates For Disability, Autism Care Brace For Impact Of Health Law
The result of some elements of the health law that were initially viewed as victories are now not so clear-cut.
State Highlights: Hundreds Lost D.C. Medicaid Without Cause, Some Allege
A selection of health policy stories from the District of Columbia, New York, California, Florida, North Carolina and Colorado.
Today’s early morning highlights from the major news organizations, including reports about state action on the health law’s implementation and other news from the health insurance marketplace.
In States That Don’t Expand Medicaid, Some Of The Uninsured May Still Get Help
Some could get help buying private coverage by projecting their future incomes to exceed the federal poverty level.
President: GOP Shutting Down Government To Defund Obamacare Is ‘A Bad Idea’
Republicans have made it their “holy grail, their number one priority” to deny millions of Americans health insurance coverage through the 2010 health care law, President Obama said today.
Q&A: How ACA Will Affect People With Autism
Autism advocates expected Obamacare to require insurers to cover treatment. But political pressure from states and insurers yielded a more ambiguous result.
Viewpoints: The Case For Gov’t Shutdown Over Obamacare; Tea Partiers Vs. GOP ‘Establishment Types’
A selection of editorials and opinions on health care from around the country.