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Health Law Requires Continued Coverage For Patients In Clinical Trials
In the past, many patients who opted for experimental treatments for cancer and other life-threatening illnesses found that their insurance companies stop covering all routine care for their illness. The health overhaul mandates that insurers continue to pay for doctor visits, hospital stays, test and other routine treatments.
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‘Tiered’ Insurance Confounds Consumers, Docs In Mass.
Tiered insurance is being offered by various companies in Massachusetts as a way to meet employers' demands for cheaper insurance premiums.
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Key Health Law Provisions Begin Sept. 23
Some insurers have already altered their plans to reflect the law. But starting this month, a number of provisions become mandatory for insurance plans, including a ban on lifetime benefit limits and the ability to keep adult children on parents' plans.
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The Public Option Did Not Die
Unique in the nation for having public health insurance plans that are run by counties, California has public plans that stretch from San Francisco to the Mexican border and cover 2.5 million people.
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Campaign Claims: Health Law Myths And Facts
The debate that preceded passage of the health-care overhaul resumed as a heated issue in the midterm elections. Politicians and advocacy groups seeking repeal of the law are making dramatic claims about the its cost and effects. How valid are they? We evaluate some of the most common criticisms.
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The Parent Trap: Adult Children Care For Elderly Parents
This story by Kaiser Health News' Marilyn Werber Serafini features members of the sandwich generation: raising children, dealing with elderly parents and the care they need - and sometimes feeling like they've bitten off more than they can chew.
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The KHN Conversation: ‘Innovation’ Advisors On Achieving CMS’ Triple Aim
In advance of their first Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services meeting next week, four of the newly named innovation advisors talked with KHN's Christian Torres.
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New Group To Set Priorities for Medical Effectiveness Research
Congress is betting more than $3 billion over the next decade that "comparative effectiveness" research can transform medical care by helping determine the best approach to a particular illness.
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Connecticut Drops Insurers From Medicaid
The 'Insurance Capital' bucks the nationwide trend of states turning to private managed care plans.
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Code Blue: Out-of-Network Charges Can Spur Financial Emergency
When Gary Diego's wife, Ellen, had bleeding in her brain, she ended up in an out-of-network emergency room. And he ended up with a huge bill. In a practice known as balance billing, insurers pay a portion of the out-of-network charges, and the rest is dumped on patients.
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HHS Gives States Flexibility On Health Law’s ‘Essential Benefits’
States will be given wide latitude to decide what "essential benefits" insurers must offer in policies offered on new health exchanges come 2014, the Obama administration said Friday in a move that pushes off final federal rules on those benefits until sometime next year.
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Health Law May Accelerate Growth In Urgent Care Centers
Crowded emergency rooms and a lack of primary care doctors have fueled recent expansions. But the drive to lower costs is also a factor and could bring more customers under the overhaul.
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A Health Insurance Plan President Gingrich Might Support
He's done with mandates, but Newt Gingrich likes John Goodman's idea for helping people who buy insurance and paying for care for those who don't.
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A Texas-Sized Medicaid Deal
Both Perry and Obama can claim political victories with the Medicaid waiver the feds granted to the Lone Star state. But public hospitals have the most to gain from the new system.