Consumers Hit By Higher Out-of-Network Medical Costs
Insurers switch to new way to calculate reimbursement that shifts more of the expenses onto patients.
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Insurers switch to new way to calculate reimbursement that shifts more of the expenses onto patients.
The federal health law set up new plans that are cheaper and more comprehensive than the older ones run by states but consumers need to go without insurance for six months to qualify.
Latest WBUR poll shows that 62 percent of residents support Massachusetts' health reform law, despite the drubbing it's taken during the Republican presidential primaries.
GOP Presidential hopeful Mitt Romney's health care reform in Massachusetts is denigrated by his fellow GOP contenders and some others, but the law isn't nearly as controversial in his home state, where it remains to be seen just how the law will transform the health care system there.
Seven organizations will receive a total of $639 million in federal low-interest loans to launch new health insurance plans in eight states, the federal government announced Tuesday.
Advocate of health overhaul uses a comic-book style narrative to describe the federal law and its provisions.
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A Senate-passed bill to stop a Medicare physician pay cut, among other provisions like a payroll tax cut extension, was denied a vote by House Republicans Tuesday afternoon. Until lawmakers pass legislation to avert it, doctors are facing a 27 percent pay cut at the beginning of next year.
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