Major Changes May Be Coming to Medicare

Published: Thursday, April 13, 2017 11:19 p.m. CDT • Updated: Thursday, April 13, 2017 11:19 p.m. CDT By Trudy Lieberman, Rural Health News Service What’s going to happen to Medicare?…

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One in four U.S. consumers have had their personal medical information stolen

The Accenture study also finds that half of these victims were subject to medical identity theft and on average had to pay $2,500 in out-of-pocket costs per incident. Healthcare IT…

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After Two Megadeals Blocked, Health Insurers Plot Next Moves

Bloomberg- by Zachary Tracer , David McLaughlin , and Andrew M Harris February 8, 2017, 4:05 PM PST February 9, 2017, 2:37 PM PST After 18 months of courtship and court…

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Modernizing Medicare with the QPP

HBMA- Dr. Kate Goodrich- 03/13/2017 Modernizing Medicare with the QPP Keeping Medicare’s Promise to Families Today and Tomorrow By Kate Goodrich, Centers for Medicare & Medicare Services (CMS), US Department…

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Donald Trump’s promises are taking a beating in the GOP’s Obamacare replacement

Washington Post - By Aaron Blake March 10 at 10:29 AM Two big stories on the Republicans' Obamacare replacement bill broke late Thursday. And both point to major broken promises for…

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The Advantages and Disadvantages of Electronic Medical Records

Crystal Lombardo- The Next Galaxy  The advancement of technology has changed the way the entire world functions. One big change that has happened has to do with the medical world.…

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Trump urges insurers to work together to ‘save Americans from Obamacare’

Will Obamacare survive? Washington Post - By Carolyn Y. Johnson and Juliet Eilperin February 27 at 12:19 PM  President Trump met with major health insurers Monday morning, in the midst of…

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The Trump administration just proposed big changes to Obamacare

Business Insider- Feb. 15, 2017, 9:54 AM- Bob Bryan The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services on Wednesday morning announced new proposed rules for the Affordable Care Act's individual insurance…

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Doctors Make the Case for Obamacare or Something Like It

NBC News -HEALTH- Maggie Fox -FEB 2 2017, 6:20 PM ET Congress should improve Obamacare without taking away what's best about it, doctors said Thursday. Doctors who treat women and…

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Showing panic over Obamacare repeal, GOP senators release replacement plan that (almost) makes sense

LA Times - Michael Hiltzik - January 24,2017 2;25pm If you’re following the health insurance debate—and since the coverage of more than 20 million Americans is under threat from the…

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