What’s In A Name: Health Exchanges, Marketplaces … Or Swap Meets
If a Medicare staff recommendation is approved, health insurance exchanges may be up for a rebranding.
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Former CMS Chiefs: Medicare SGR Problem Can Be Fixed
The Senate Finance Committee convened a group of former Medicare administrators Thursday -- Gail Wilensky, Bruce Vladeck, Thomas Scully and Mark McClellan -- to discuss how they viewed the current crisis on physician fees and the Sustainable Growth Rate formula, the "doc fix" problem.
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Letters To The Editor: Readers’ Thoughts On Observational Care, Virtual Doctors, And More
Letters to the Editor is a periodic KHN feature.
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Medicare Spotlights Hospitals With Especially Costly Patients
The new data, which include beneficiaries' bills in the hospital and for 30 days afterward, are a first step toward using bonuses and penalties to encourage more efficient care.
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Lawsuit Challenges Medicaid Managed Care Decision In Missouri
Missouri's efforts to winnow contracts for its Medicaid managed care business are being challenged by one of the companies left out in the cold: Molina Healthcare, which alleges the state changed the bidding rules in the middle of the process.
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Federal Budget: Health Care Politics Trump Policy
KHN's Mary Agnes Carey and Jackie Judd discuss the congressional wrangling over the federal budget and what's ahead for the automatic cuts scheduled for January.
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Patients Share Of Expensive Specialty Drugs Is Rising
Growth in spending on these prescriptions, used for complex conditions such as MS and Crohn's disease, is far outpacing traditional drugs. Often they have no generic alternative.
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