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Cigna Profits As Medicare Softens Penalty Policy

By Phil Galewitz March 10, 2016 KFF Health News Original

A new policy preserves Cigna’s access to bonuses while the insurer fixes “widespread” failures in its Medicare plans.

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Medicare Plans Score Higher Ratings And Millions In Bonuses

By Phil Galewitz March 7, 2016 KFF Health News Original

The share of Medicare Advantage members enrolled in plans with high star ratings has almost doubled since 2013, earning bonuses for private insurers who offer them.

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Alabama Puts Hospitals At Forefront Of Medicaid Managed Care

By Phil Galewitz February 17, 2016 KFF Health News Original

As officials seek to take control of costs in the health coverage for low-income residents, they are relying on hospitals, not private insurance companies, to run the program.

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Health Plan Watchdog Still Seeks Progress After 25 Years

By Phil Galewitz January 8, 2016 KFF Health News Original

Increased comparative information on health plans is helping consumers shop, says Margaret O’Kane, president of the National Committee for Quality Assurance.

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2016 Obamacare Enrollment Tops Expectations At 12.7 Million

By Phil Galewitz February 4, 2016 KFF Health News Original

About 4 million people signed up for health coverage for the first time, reports the Health and Human Services Department.

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Obamacare Recruiters Seek Uninsured At Food Fairs And Churches

By Phil Galewitz November 16, 2015 KFF Health News Original

Floridians without health insurance query experts and ponder options as the health law’s open enrollment season gets underway.

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States Simplify Medicaid Sign-Ups

By Phil Galewitz January 21, 2016 KFF Health News Original

Forty-nine states now take Medicaid applications by phone and 49 also accept online applications, reports the Kaiser Family Foundation.

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Obama Seeks To Offer New Incentive For States To Expand Medicaid

By Phil Galewitz January 14, 2016 KFF Health News Original

The White House would like to extend full federal funding for three years to states that now opt to expand Medicaid, but Congress would have to approve any change.

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2016 Health Law Exchange Enrollment Tops 11.3M

By Phil Galewitz January 7, 2016 KFF Health News Original

The government’s most detailed release of figures shows insurance plan sign-ups beat the Obama administration’s goal for the year.

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Obamacare Insurers Sweeten Plans With Free Doctor Visits

By Phil Galewitz January 4, 2016 KFF Health News Original

Some insurers are betting that lowering the barrier to seeing a doctor will encourage people to get needed care sooner. If it works, the health plans could save more than they spend on the benefit.

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Small Businesses Snub Obamacare’s SHOP Exchange

By Phil Galewitz November 5, 2015 KFF Health News Original

Software problems, better health insurance options elsewhere are said to hold enrollment well under projections after almost two years.

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Birth Centers Boost Deliveries While Easing Labor Pains

By Phil Galewitz October 12, 2015 KFF Health News Original

Staffed by midwives and bolstered by Obamacare, low-tech birth centers away from hospitals are up almost 60 percent since 2010.

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Kentucky’s Exchange Success Doesn’t Translate To Small Business Participation

By Phil Galewitz November 5, 2015 KFF Health News Original

Despite strong enrollment in Kentucky’s online health insurance marketplace, participation in its exchange for small employers also created by the Affordable Care Act has mostly been a dud.

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State Obamacare Exchanges ‘Sustainable’ Without Federal Aid, Official Tells Congress

By Phil Galewitz December 9, 2015 KFF Health News Original

But CMS Acting Administrator Andy Slavitt declines to predict fate of the 13 remaining state exchanges in congressional testimony.

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Uninsured People Eligible For Obamacare Face Average $969 Penalty In 2016

By Phil Galewitz December 9, 2015 KFF Health News Original

Average penalties are set to rise 47 percent next year for Americans who can afford insurance but choose to remain uncovered, according to a Kaiser Family Foundation analysis.

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Kentucky Strategy Will Test Need For State-Run Obamacare Exchanges

By Phil Galewitz December 2, 2015 KFF Health News Original

Experts say Gov.-elect Matt Bevin’s plan to drop Kynect and use the federal healthcare.gov marketplace would have little impact on consumers, if it happens.

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Study: Health Plan Buyers Will Save Money If They Shop

By Phil Galewitz November 18, 2015 KFF Health News Original

Premiums could jump 15 percent next year for millions if they keep 2015 plans, reports the Kaiser Family Foundation.

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Aid-In-Dying Advocacy Group Girds For Battles After California Victory

By Phil Galewitz November 18, 2015 KFF Health News Original

Compassion & Choices counts on human-interest stories to shape debate as 23 states weigh aid-in-dying bills this year.

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Exchanges Face Sign-Up Challenges As Health Law’s 3rd Open Enrollment Begins

By Phil Galewitz October 30, 2015 KFF Health News Original

After millions of people signed up for Obamacare over the past two years, the ones still lacking insurance may be harder to both find and persuade to enroll.

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Medicaid Spending Soars — Mostly In Expansion States

By Phil Galewitz October 15, 2015 KFF Health News Original

New report finds the annual increase in Medicaid spending is the largest in at least two decades, spurred by the federal health law expansion.

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