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The hospitals and some enrollees are concerned that the plan to move to a private managed care plan in January will limit the number of hospitals and doctors available to patients. News outlets also examine Medicaid news from California and North Carolina.
The reproductive health organization's action came after Attorney General Mike DeWine's report that facilities in Cincinnati, Columbus and Cleveland improperly disposed of fetal remains.
The popular legislation has become a political chit, and advocates are frustrated as they watch responders die waiting. Elsewhere on Capitol Hill, Republicans are expected to block Democrats' proposal to federally fund gun violence research.
State-based regulators can likely modify -- or altogether block -- pending deals between big insurers Anthem and Cigna as well as Aetna and Humana. Elsewhere, Millennium Health's bankruptcy plan clears a big hurdle, and an Ohio insurer decides to end commissions for some small group and individual insurance plans in Obamacare.
Meanwhile, in Massachusetts, a small, year-old startup is working to stabilize the prices of generic drugs.
If it does so, though, Oregon officials say they will use another state's software. Also, Covered California hopes to boost enrollment in certain underserved communities, and MNsure extends the deadline for coverage beginning Jan. 1.
Dec. 15 is the deadline to enroll for coverage that will begin Jan. 1, 2016.
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News outlets report on health care developments in Vermont, Pennsylvania, California, West Virginia, Florida, Kansas, Maryland, Tennessee, New Hampshire and Washington.
Meanwhile, for patients, navigating the hospital system can be difficult. The executive director of the Connecticut Center for Patient Safety and other experts dole out advice about what people should do when admitted to make the process more simple.
Elsewhere, officials from the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services are in Iowa evaluating the state's Medicaid privatization readiness.
Six states currently do not share such information, but three of them recently passed related legislation. Meanwhile, the Treatment Advocacy Center released a report Thursday that Americans with severe mental illness are 16 times more likely to be killed by police than other civilians.
Major data hacks get more publicity, but the leak of an individual's records can have serious consequences for the patient. Also in news about health technology, some researchers are using Google searches to help fight disease.
Members of Congress and their staffs get a subsidy to purchase insurance through the health law's marketplace because Republicans pressured Congress to pass a law requiring members to be insured under the law. That effort eliminated the employer contribution for a plan that they received before. In other news, Sen. Marco Rubio's provision to kill risk corridors prompts debate.
In other pharmaceutical news, Bayer may have five new cancer drugs on the market by 2020 and AstraZeneca targets the so-called secretome -- proteins secreted by cells -- in the hunt for next-generation biotech medicines. Meanwhile, the FDA is starting to scrutinize the largely unregulated lab-developed test industry.
Also, news outlets report on other health exchange developments from Connecticut, Ohio and Illinois.
And Pennsylvania hits the half-million mark with Medicaid sign-ups after Gov. Tom Wolf abandoned his predecessor's hybrid model and expanded the program when he took office. In Florida, lawmakers have little hope for the expansion.
Of the 758 facilities penalized, more than half were also punished last year. The fines are based on the government’s assessment of the frequency of several kinds of infections, sepsis, hip fractures and other complications. In other hospital news, Kaiser Health News reports on emergency room overcrowding.
The deficit growth was, in part, driven by an uptick in spending on Medicare and Social Security, due to the burgeoning baby boomer population, and Medicaid, as a result of the health law's expansion of the low-income health care program.
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