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KHN reporters preview some of the big issues coming in the new year: KHN Senior Correspondent Julie Appleby discusses health insurance exchanges — and how officials are scrambling to meet the deadlines for their launch.
KHN reporters preview some of the big issues coming in the new year: KHN Senior Correspondent Mary Agnes Carey discusses how Medicare could be center stage if the national debate continues to center on the federal debt and spending.
State leaders could move forward with a long-awaited overhaul of the Medicaid system and likely will decide how to carry out the federal health law, affecting the health care of millions of poor and uninsured Floridians.
Connecticut was one of the first states to establish a health care advocacy agency, a response to the numerous complaints lawmakers were receiving at that time from constituents about their managed care plans.
The federal government’s conditional approval Thursday for Minnesota to operate a health insurance exchange means insurers have just a few months to develop new health plans.
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Data companies are poised to profit from the expansion of Medicaid.
Under a program set up by the health law, payments to 1,557 hospitals will be increased, while 1,427 will drop.
Payments to hospitals are adjusted to reflect how they follow standards of care and patients’ ratings of their experiences.
This chart shows the effect, by hospital, of Medicare bonuses and penalties based on how well they performed on quality measures.
This chart shows the average effect by state of the value-based purchasing program on hospitals’ Medicare reimbursements per hospital stay for the federal spending year that runs from last October through September 2013.
Blue Shield of California chairman and CEO Bruce Bodaken discusses his views on the health law and the current state of the insurance industry.
