Transcript: Understanding The New HHS ACO Rule
KHN's Jordan Rau explains how the Obama administration envisions accountable care organizations, which are designed to help hospitals and doctors form new networks to coordinate patients' care.
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Health Care Expands For Ex-Offenders In California
The health overhaul law is spurring a major expansion of programs that will benefit ex-offenders and other indigent people in California beginning this summer.
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Some Employers Already Sending Workers To Exchanges to Buy Health Insurance
Entrepreneurs create new private marketplaces
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Palliative Care Can Help Children And Families Navigate Bewildering Medical Terrain
About 1.3 million children live with serious or life-limiting illness and many need an interdisciplinary approach to care to help their families make sense of the maze of medical treatment.
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Documents: Medicare, Medicaid In The GOP’s ‘Path to Prosperity’ Budget
The GOP "Path to Prosperity" 2012 budget blueprint includes proposals to restrain spending growth in health care costs by voucherizing Medicare and giving Medicaid block grants to states.
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States Pushing Managed Long-Term Care For Elderly And Disabled Medicaid Patients
Some patient advocates, as well as the nursing home industry, object to using managed care for such vulnerable patients, but health plans say they can provide quality services while holding down costs.
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Helping Patients Understand Their Medical Treatment
Consumers are increasingly expected to manage their complex regimens but that is especially challenging for those who don't have the ability to comprehend health information.
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Text: President Obama Makes Health Law Defense At Conference
President Barack Obama Friday morning addressed a group of people gathered at the Families USA Health Action conference and continued his defense of the health law.
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More Elderly and Disabled Medicaid Patients Headed for Managed Long-Term Care
Some patient advocates and nursing homes object, but health plans say they can reduce states' costs.
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In Dialysis, Life-Saving Care at Great Risk and Cost
An untold number of dialysis patients are injured or die as a result of needle dislodgements, but Medicare rules don't require clinics to report such adverse incidents to outside authorities.
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Insurers Clash With Hospitals And Doctors Over ACO Rules
Powerful interests that are supposed to create and run the health law's new accountable care organizations are fighting over what the rules governing ACOs should say.
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The Health Law’s Co-op Program: A Political Device Or The Affordable Alternative Consumers Need?
It will take a serious and sustained effort to make co-ops a viable insurance option for consumers and small business owners.
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A Market ‘Fundamentally Changed’: How Health Proposals Could Affect Americans Who Buy Their Own Insurance
New rules being debated by Congress could mean consumers couldn't be rejected because they have health problems and would include subsidies for lower-income people to buy insurance. But the rules won't solve all the problems faced by those who don't get insurance through their jobs.
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Health Programs On The Chopping Block As States Gird For Drop In Federal Aid
Hundreds of thousands of Americans are at risk of losing access to health services as states prepare to make yet another round of budget cuts.
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Text: President Obama’s Proposed 2012 HHS Budget
Text of President Obama's proposed budget for the Department of Health and Human Services.
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What Can A Medical Billing Advocate Do For You?
When a claim is denied, an out-of-network fee is too costly, or an uninsured patient confronts an unclear or towering bill, an advocate may be able to help.
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Obama Administration’s Balancing Act: Health Insurance Benefits Vs. Costs
Advocacy groups are lobbying as government advisory panel tackles key question: What benefits must insurers cover?
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Confusing Insurance Jargon Prompts Call For Reform
Insurers sometimes make it difficult for consumers to understand and use their benefits. One U.S. senator has drafted legislation to hold insurers to higher standards, but the industry is already moving to make changes.
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Opinion Column
A New ‘Definition’ For Health Care Reform
Pursuing health reforms that transform current health insurance arrangements into aproaches based on defined contributions will set in motion a competitive dynamic from which all Americans would benefit.
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Some Policies Restrict Coverage By Limiting Visits To The Doctor
The new health law eliminated lifetime and most annual dollar limits for consumers but some plans cut costs by covering only a defined number of doctor appointments, prescriptions or other services.