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Week In Review: Appealing Insurance Claim Denials; GOP Questions For Berwick And Kagan; What Fate For COBRA And FMAP?

By Stephanie Stapleton July 23, 2010 KFF Health News Original

This week’s health policy news was marked by new administration rules regarding the appeals process for denied health insurance claims and continuing state-level efforts to implement high risk pools.

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Market-Based Reform Initiatives Are Key To Health Law Success

By Grace-Marie Turner June 17, 2010 KFF Health News Original

Consumer-directed health plans have been useful in controlling the rise of health costs over the last several years, but the survival of these plans is threatened by the new health overhaul law.

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Text: The Obama Administration’s New ‘Patient’s Bill Of Rights’

June 22, 2010 KFF Health News Original

The White House today released a “Fact Sheet: The Affordable Care Act’s New Patient’s Bill of Rights,” the Obama administration’s summary of new regulations issued by the Department of Health and Human Services.

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Health On The Hill: Upcoming Primaries

May 17, 2010 KFF Health News Original

After a lengthy and fierce debate in Washington about health care reform, voters in several states have an opportunity to weigh in this week on what they think of the historic measure in numerous primary contests.

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Cutting C-Sections Helped Babies

By Cynthia Washam, Health News Florida June 15, 2010 KFF Health News Original

Florida hospital administrators for years have said the state’s high rate of preterm births — and the infant health problems that result — are beyond their control. But that’s not true, as Tallahassee Memorial Hospital has proved.

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COBRA Health Insurance Subsidies Waiting For Senate Action

By Maggie Mertens and Andrew Villegas April 14, 2010 KFF Health News Original

People recently laid off are waiting – once again – to hear if they will be eligible for subsidies to stay on their employer’s health insurance.

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Health Care Insurance Scams Rise as Layoffs Leave Workers Uninsured

By Carter Dougherty, The Fiscal Times May 5, 2010 KFF Health News Original

A searing recession that left nearly 10 percent of the American workforce unemployed, plus a time when health care costs continue to soar, equals fertile ground for health insurance swindlers.

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Transcript: Health On The Hill – May 25, 2010

May 25, 2010 KFF Health News Original

The House of Representatives may vote on legislation this week that would stop a scheduled June 1 payment cut for doctors who accept Medicare physicians.

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Playing Chicken

By Jonathan Cohn May 3, 2010 KFF Health News Original

Sensible public policy shouldn’t ask people to reduce that health care bill by bargaining with their doctors over prices and using things (as one Republican U.S. Senate candidate recently suggested) like chickens to pay for care. It should prevent that kind of financial exposure in the first place.

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Some Medicaid Doctors Rely Heavily On Potent Drugs

By Emily Ramshaw, The Texas Tribune July 15, 2010 KFF Health News Original

Over the last five years, Texas physicians wrote Medicaid patients nearly 3.4 million prescriptions for antipsychotics.

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Transcript: Health On The Hill – May 3, 2010

May 4, 2010 KFF Health News Original

Some states have told the Department of Health and Human Services that they intend to establish their own high-risk health insurance pool while others have said they want the federal government to do it.

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Health Law Guarantees Protections For Emergency Room Visits

By Maggie Mertens May 13, 2010 KFF Health News Original

The new health law mandates that insurers cannot pay less for emergency care in “out-of-network” hospitals and eases consumer worries about having to pre-authorize an emergency room visit.

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What The New Health Law Means For You

By Phil Galewitz June 2, 2010 KFF Health News Original

The law will extend health insurance to 32 million currently uninsured Americans by 2019, and will also have an impact on how nearly every American buys insurance and what insurance must cover.

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Health On The Hill – April 12, 2010

April 12, 2010 KFF Health News Original

Physicians face a 21 percent cut in their Medicare payments unless the Senate approves legislation this week to stop the scheduled reduction. Meanwhile, education efforts about elements of the health care overhaul package are continuing, with the Department of Health and Human Services and other federal agencies and outside groups working to give the public more specifics about the measure.

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Week In Review: Berwick Nomination Still Drawing Fire; Regulations For Health IT And Preventive Care; A New AIDS Policy; New PhRMA Chief

July 16, 2010 KFF Health News Original

This week, news outlets covered the Obama administration as it began implementing parts of the new health law and also unveiled a national HIV/AIDS strategy. And, Capitol Hill is still reacting to the president’s recess appointment of Dr. Donald Berwick to head the agency overseeing Medicare and Medicaid.

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What Health Care Reform Means for Main Street

By Blaire Briody and Sarah Stodola, The Fiscal Times April 14, 2010 KFF Health News Original

Health care coverage differs among Americans, and many details of the health care reform bill are still unclear. To help clear up the confusion, The Fiscal Times recruited six volunteers representing different incomes, geographic areas, ages and lifestyles to look at how the bill will affect a variety of people.

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Transcript: Health On The Hill – April 26, 2010

April 26, 2010 KFF Health News Original

The new health law mandates that states adhere to several changes, including setting up high-risk health insurance pools by June. Jackie Judd and Noam Levey discuss where efforts now stand.

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Latest Destination For Medical Tourism: The U.S.

By Julie Appleby July 7, 2010 KFF Health News Original

Forget sending workers overseas for lower cost medical care: A growing number of employers are encouraging workers to travel within the states to medical facilities they say have better quality and lower costs.

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New Health Law Brings Better Coverage For Women

By Joanne Silberner, NPR News April 26, 2010 KFF Health News Original

Among the many goals of the new health law is one that hasn’t received much attention: to improve women’s experiences in the health insurance world.

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Boehner: GOP Will Repeal Health Care Law

By NPR Staff April 30, 2010 KFF Health News Original

House Republican Leader John Boehner has said that his party will repeal the new health care law if the GOP gains a congressional majority in November.

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