Payer Healthcare industry lambastes Trump administration’s short-term health plan proposal

Fierce Healthcare - by Mike Stankiewicz | Apr 24, 2018 1:31pm The health insurance and hospital sectors are nearly unanimous in their opposition to the Trump administration's proposal to expand short-term…

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Health Plans Simplify Doctor Credentialing To Boost Medicaid Participation

Forbes -Bruce Japsen , CONTRIBUTOR APR 2, 2018 @ 09:01 AM  Health insurance companies are streamlining credentialing of physicians who contract with Medicaid health plans in hopes of boosting doctor participation…

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Trump plan: Less health insurance for lower premiums

By RICARDO ALONSO-ZALDIVAR, ASSOCIATED PRESS WASHINGTON — Feb 20, 2018, 4:49 PM ET The Trump administration Tuesday spelled out a plan to lower the cost of health insurance: give consumers…

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California’s two health insurance regulators to investigate Aetna coverage decisions

LA TIMES - By BARBARA FEDER OSTROV- FEB 12, 2018 | 7:50 PM Both of California's health insurance regulators said they will investigate how Aetna Inc. makes coverage decisions, as the lawsuit…

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How the New U.S. Tax Plan Will Affect Health Care

Harvard Business Review: David Blumenthal- December 19, 2017 The new Republican tax bill, which the House passed this afternoon and the Senate is expected to approve tonight, is complex, but what…

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AnMed Health to pay $7 million to settle False Claims Act allegations

WSPA Channel 7 News Columbia SC- Published: September 27, 2017, 10:58 am Updated: September 27, 2017, 12:37 pm COLUMBIA, SC (WSPA) – AnMed Health has agreed to pay over $7 million…

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Medicare for All or State Control: Health Care Plans Go to Extremes

NY Times - By ROBERT PEAR- SEPT. 13, 2017 WASHINGTON — In one Senate office building, some of the leading lights of the Democratic Party gathered Wednesday to embrace what was…

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Did Medicaid Expansion Cause The Opioid Epidemic? There’s Little Evidence That It Did.

Health Affairs Blog- Andrew Goodman-Bacon and Emma Sandoe -August 23, 2017 Recent health reform debates have generated a new theory that claims that the Affordable Care Act’s (ACA) Medicaid expansion has…

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Even Talking About Weakening Obamacare Provisions Weakens The Exchanges

NPR- July 21, 201710:56 AM ET DANIELLE KURTZLEBEN The Affordable Care Act is not "exploding" or "imploding," as President Trump likes to claim. But Trump does hold several keys to sabotaging the…

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Major insurance groups call part of health bill ‘unworkable’

By ALAN FRAM, ASSOCIATED PRESS WASHINGTON — Jul 15, 2017, 11:21 AM ET Two of the insurance industry's most powerful organizations say a crucial provision in the Senate Republican health…

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