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Oregon Shows Costs Of Putting Medicaid Enrollees In Private Coverage

By Phil Galewitz March 29, 2013 KFF Health News Original

The Arkansas plan to expand Medicaid by paying for enrollees to buy private health insurance   has been billed as a new option for states led by Republicans who are leery of the federal health overhaul. And it’s getting attention from Republican leaders in Florida and Ohio, among other states. However, the strategy is not new. […]

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Connecticut Races To Reach Uninsured, Open Health Insurance Marketplace

By Phil Galewitz March 25, 2013 KFF Health News Original

Officials hope to ‘make history’ by signing up two-thirds of those without coverage after the marketplaces launch nationwide Oct. 1.

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States Balk At Enforcing Health Law’s Insurance Protections

By Phil Galewitz March 19, 2013 KFF Health News Original

Florida regulators won’t penalize insurance companies that violate new health law consumer protections that take effect in January but will report them to the federal government, according to an agreement between the state and federal officials. Citing lack of money and legal authority, Pennsylvania’s top insurance regulator hasn’t decided whether his agency can enforce the provisions, […]

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Health Insurers See Big Opportunities In Health Law’s Medicaid Expansion

By Phil Galewitz March 8, 2013 KFF Health News Original

Medicaid managed care plans prepare for as many as 10 million new members in 2014– and billions in additional revenue.

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Idaho, Utah, N.M. Running Out Of Time To Set Up State Exchanges

By Phil Galewitz March 7, 2013 KFF Health News Original

Three western states which had gotten tentative go-aheads to run their own online health insurance websites — Utah, Idaho and New Mexico — are running out of time to be ready for an Oct. 1  launch and experts doubt they will get green lights from the federal government. “We are not seeing enough progress that these states can easily […]

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HHS Denies Mississippi’s Bid To Run Its Own Exchange

By Jeffrey Hess, Mississippi Public Broadcasting February 8, 2013 KFF Health News Original

Updated at 10:15 a.m. Mississippi Insurance Commissioner Mike Chaney, who has been the driving force behind creating a state based exchange, got his answer from the feds Thursday: Sure can’t. The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services rejected Mississippi’s plan Thursday afternoon, making Mississippi the only state to have its exchange blueprint nixed by […]

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Plans To Expand Florida Medicaid Welcomed And Feared

By Phil Galewitz February 24, 2013 KFF Health News Original

Doctors, consumer groups cheer expansion, worry that for-profit health plans may cut corners.

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Hospitals Clamp Down On Dangerous Early Elective Deliveries

By Phil Galewitz February 21, 2013 KFF Health News Original

Pressure from insurers, employers and advocacy groups is finally reducing rates of elective deliveries before 39 weeks.

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Funding To Enroll Uninsured In New Markets Called ‘Drop In Bucket’

By Phil Galewitz and Jenny Gold April 9, 2013 KFF Health News Original

Feds announce $54 million to hire ‘navigators’ in 33 states, but some say that’s too little to get job done.

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Big Firms Win Multimillion Dollar Contracts To Build Insurance Marketplaces

By Phil Galewitz February 19, 2013 KFF Health News Original

President Barack Obama’s health law has been criticized as a “government takeover” of health care. But private companies are building the underpinnings of the online health insurance marketplaces that are a key element of the law – and winning contracts worth hundreds of millions to do so. Deloitte Consulting, part of the Big Four accounting […]

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KFF Health News has had a variety of coverage about Medicare, long-term care and other issues affecting seniors’ quality of care and life. Below is a complete list of our 2012 coverage. See Stories Published In: 2014 | 2013 KFF Health News’s coverage of aging and long-term care issues is produced with support from The […]

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Feds Increase Costs To High-Risk Pool Members

By Phil Galewitz February 14, 2013 KFF Health News Original

The Obama administration has increased costs for about 38,000 people enrolled in high-risk insurance pools run under the federal health law to prevent the program from running out of money. The pools, which started in 2010, will expire at the end of the year when new rules prohibiting insurers from denying coverage to people with pre-existing […]

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Valentine’s Day Surprise: Senate Democrats Blast Obamacare Implementation

By Phil Galewitz February 14, 2013 KFF Health News Original

Senate Democrats on Thursday showed little love to the Obama administration for how it is implementing the federal health law. Testifying before the powerful Senate Finance Committee, the administration’s top regulator on new health exchanges encountered criticism from several Democrats who helped push through the 2010 federal health overhaul — among them Chairman Max Baucus of […]

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Health Figures Big In State Of The Union Guest List

By Phil Galewitz February 12, 2013 KFF Health News Original

Five of the 24 people invited to sit near First Lady Michelle Obama at Tuesday night’s State of the Union have strong health care connections. They included a governor, a business owner and a beneficiary of the health law provision that prevents health plans from denying coverage because of pre-existing conditions. Typically, invited guests at […]

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Medicaid Helps Hospitals Pay For Illegal Immigrants’ Care

By Phil Galewitz February 12, 2013 KFF Health News Original

California gets the lion’s share of funding for a program that critics say leads to ‘anchor babies.’

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Feds Blame Mississippi Governor For Exchange Denial

By Phil Galewitz February 8, 2013 KFF Health News Original

One, Mississippi has become No, Mississippi. The Obama administration on Friday offered an explanation for why it rejected Mississippi’s bid to establish a state-based online health insurance marketplace, called One, Mississippi. In a letter, the federal government’s top exchange official said they had no choice because Gov. Phil Bryant would not allow the exchange to work with […]

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HHS Delays Basic Health Plan Option Until 2015

By Phil Galewitz February 7, 2013 KFF Health News Original

The Obama administration has delayed by one year the rollout of a health program aimed at low to moderate-income people who won’t qualify for the expanded Medicaid program under the federal health law. Under the so-called Basic Health Program, some states had planned to offer government insurance to people who don’t qualify for Medicaid, but […]

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Feds Help States Qualify For More Medicaid Dollars

By Phil Galewitz February 1, 2013 KFF Health News Original

The Obama administration on Friday released guidance to states on how they can increase their Medicaid funding by eliminating copays for certain preventive services, including immunizations. The provision of the Affordable Care Act was slated to take effect Jan. 1. States that implement the changes can apply for the funding retroactive to that date. The specified preventive services […]

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Tick, Tock: Administration Misses Some Health Law Deadlines

By Phil Galewitz January 31, 2013 KFF Health News Original

Programs to increase fees to Medicaid primary care doctors and to entice states to eliminate some Medicaid copays are delayed as feds focus on insurance markets.

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Cracks Appearing In GOP Opposition To Health Law

By Phil Galewitz January 22, 2013 KFF Health News Original

In Mississippi, Republican leaders split on state insurance marketplace dubbed “One, Mississippi.”

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