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New Missouri law Imposes Hurdle For Insurance Exchange

By Virginia Young, St. Louis Post-Dispatch July 17, 2013 KFF Health News Original

The law requires insurance counselors

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Health Insurers Tune In To Twitter For Customer Service

By Ankita Rao August 8, 2013 KFF Health News Original

Companies are amping up their social media presence in an effort to help patients and do quick damage control on complaints aired in this public sphere.

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Talking Scales and Telemedicine: ACO Tools To Keep Patients Out Of The Hospital

By Elizabeth Stawicki, MPR News August 15, 2013 KFF Health News Original

A Minnesota hospital’s care for congestive heart failure patients set the stage for it to become an Accountable Care Organization under the health law.

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Questions And Answers About Obamacare Marketplaces

By KFF Health News Editors September 24, 2013 KFF Health News Original

KHN’s Mary Agnes Carey and Julie Appleby were hosted once again by the Washington Post’s Charity Brown  for a live discussion with Post readers about how the new online marketplaces will work under the health law. KHN reporters will participate in more live discussions with Post readers in the coming days. A transcript of today’s discussion […]

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President: GOP Shutting Down Government To Defund Obamacare Is ‘A Bad Idea’

August 9, 2013 KFF Health News Original

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.

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‘Peers’ Seen Easing Mental Health Worker Shortage

By Christine Vestal, Stateline September 11, 2013 KFF Health News Original

Peer programs such as Georgia’s “certified peer specialist” licenses could become especially important once the Affordable Care Act takes effect early next year.

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How Baby Erik Got Health Insurance

By Don Sapatkin, The Philadelphia Inquirer July 8, 2013 KFF Health News Original

It took his parents 86 phone calls and six months to get their newborn enrolled in a Pennsylvania program for children.

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Turning To The Web To Help Pay Medical Bills

By Caroline Mayer July 2, 2013 KFF Health News Original

Online fundraising sites are growing in popularity, even among patients who have insurance.

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Lawmakers to NY Docs: Screen All Baby Boomers for Deadly Liver Disease

By Fred Mogul, WNYC July 3, 2013 KFF Health News Original

The New York legislature passed a bill that would make the state the first in the nation requiring doctors to offer the hepatitis C test to anyone born between 1945 and 1965.

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Big Changes Ahead For Those Who Buy Their Own Insurance

By Julie Appleby June 28, 2013 KFF Health News Original

Premiums may increase for young people, but the flip side is insurers must take all comers, broaden benefits and cap out-of-pocket costs.

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Despite Progress, African Americans Still Hard Hit By Medical Bills

By Patti Neighmond, NPR News June 10, 2013 KFF Health News Original

This story comes from our partner ‘s Shots blog. For many years, high medical bills have been a leading cause of financial distress and bankruptcy in America. That pressure may be easing ever so slightly, according to a survey released last week by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. But one in five Americans still […]

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Why Health Law’s ‘Essential’ Coverage Might Mean ‘Bare Bones’

By Jay Hancock August 25, 2013 KFF Health News Original

But how can a law praised for expanding coverage — one that includes an “employer mandate” to offer “minimum essential coverage” — allow companies to offer insurance that might not even cover hospitalization?

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364 Hospitals Have High Rates Of Overall Readmissions, New Medicare Data Show

By Jordan Rau January 6, 2014 KFF Health News Original

Medicare’s new comprehensive measure of hospital readmissions shows that at least 20 percent of the hospitals in Illinois, Maryland, Massachusetts, New Jersey, New York and Rhode Island have higher rates of patients returning than the national average. Colorado, Hawaii, Idaho, North Carolina, Oregon, South Carolina, Utah and Washington led the states with the highest proportion […]

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Political Fight Jeopardizes Mississippi’s Entire Medicaid Program

By Jeffrey Hess, Mississippi Public Broadcasting June 22, 2013 KFF Health News Original

Democrats and Republicans in Mississippi are locked in a fight over the health law’s Medicaid expansion that could threaten reauthorization of the state’s Medicaid program — and care for 700,000 residents.

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A Nevada Health Plan — Without The Insurance

By Pauline Bartolone, Capital Public Radio August 14, 2013 KFF Health News Original

A novel medical discount plan negotiates lower prices at the doctor’s office or hospitals for members who aren’t insured.

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On Health Care, GOP Has ‘Really Busy Month’ Ahead

July 10, 2013 KFF Health News Original

KHN’s Mary Agnes Carey talks with Politico Pro’s Paige Winfield Cunningham about the latest Republican effort to delay or repeal Obamacare provisions, including postponing a mandate on individuals to carry health insurance.

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Kentucky’s Rush Into Medicaid Managed Care: A Cautionary Tale For Other States

By Jenni Bergal July 15, 2013 KFF Health News Original

Doctors, hospitals, patients and their advocates complained about disruptions in care and payments after Kentucky moved more than half a million people on Medicaid into private plans.

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Red State Idaho Embraces Obamacare Insurance Exchange — Reluctantly

By Phil Galewitz August 9, 2013 KFF Health News Original

Gov. “Butch” Otter and employer groups fought to keep control of their health insurance marketplace — the only GOP-controlled state to run a state-based exchange –

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Missouri’s Poorest Residents Won’t Benefit From Obamacare

By Virginia Young, St. Louis Post-Dispatch August 27, 2013 KFF Health News Original

In a twist that wasn’t intended by the authors of the federal Affordable Care Act, most of Missouri’s poorest, working-age residents won’t be eligible for government help because state lawmakers opted against expanding Medicaid.

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Health Law Boosts Status Of Alternative Medicine — At Least On Paper

By Ankita Rao July 26, 2013 KFF Health News Original

The Affordable Care Act says that insurance companies “shall not discriminate” against any state-licensed health provider, which could lead to better coverage of chiropractic, homeopathic and naturopathic care. Alternative medicine is also mentioned in parts of the law on wellness, prevention and research.

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