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Sep 24 2010

Wall Street Journal

By Kevin Roche Headlines No Comments

One of the most critical aspects of health overhaul for insurers is shaping up as a mixed bag for the industry, as regulators issued draft rules Thursday on how the companies must account for how much they spend directly on patients’ medical care.

Sep 23 2010

New York Times

By Kevin Roche Headlines No Comments

State insurance regulators told the White House on Wednesday that health insurancePresident Obama gave insurers a temporary dispensation from one major provision of the new health care law

Sep 23 2010

HealthLeaders Media

By Kevin Roche Headlines No Comments

Those surveyed had one big number on their minds: 32 million. That’s the number of people expected to be newly insured as a result of Medicaid expansion and federally subsidized insurance coverage through soon-to-be-mandated health exchanges

Sep 23 2010

New York Times

By Kevin Roche Headlines No Comments

The first big wave of new rules under the federal health care law goes into effect on Thursday, leaving many insurers scrambling to get ahead of the changes.

Sep 22 2010

Washington Post

By Kevin Roche Headlines No Comments

Experts are starting to wonder if states with depleted budgets – such as California, Oklahoma and Virginia – can keep up with the conveyer belt of grant opportunities and account for millions of dollars once the money is awarded.

Sep 21 2010

New York Times

By Kevin Roche Headlines No Comments

Republicans are serious. Hopeful of picking up substantial numbers of seats in the Congressional elections, they are developing plans to try to repeal or roll back new health care law.

Sep 20 2010

Kaiser Health News

By Kevin Roche Headlines No Comments

Many reformers undoubtedly believe that passage of the health overhaul law laid the issue to rest. But policy’s wheels continue to turn, and the process is anything but over.

Sep 20 2010

Politico

By Kevin Roche Headlines No Comments

Republicans are zeroing in on a nibble-around-the-edges strategy — a long-term, but so far loosely defined, campaign to choke off funding piece by piece and weaken the law

Sep 18 2010

2010 Potpourri XXXIV

By Kevin Roche Commentary No Comments

On the menu for this week's potpourri--savings from wellness efforts for a large employer; drug reimbursement for Medicaid programs; using remote monitoring in a health plan context; the FDA's regulatory…

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Sep 17 2010

HealthLeaders Media

By Kevin Roche Headlines No Comments

A health insurance premium tax credit that is part of the ACA could assist more than 28.6 million Americans in purchasing healthcare coverage—the value of the tax credits is expected to be about $110.1 billion during the first year.

Sep 17 2010

Bloomberg

By Kevin Roche Headlines No Comments

Defending the legality of the national health-care overhaul against an onslaught of angry naysayers.

Sep 17 2010

The Hill

By Kevin Roche Headlines No Comments

The federal district judge overseeing a multi-state challenge to the healthcare reform law has unveiled a detailed schedule for the suit’s next steps.

Sep 16 2010

Reuters

By Kevin Roche Headlines No Comments

A Florida judge said on Tuesday he would hear arguments on December 16 on a lawsuit by 20 U.S. states seeking to block President Barack Obama’s overhaul of the U.S. healthcare system.

Sep 16 2010

Kaiser Health News

By Kevin Roche Headlines No Comments

GOP ‘Repeal And Replace’ Strategy Lacks Merit

Sep 15 2010

Bloomberg

By Kevin Roche Headlines No Comments

A legal challenge to the health- care overhaul signed by President Barack Obama probably will be allowed to proceed, said a federal judge in Florida.

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