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Jun 29 2010

AMA

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AMA: The American Medical Association has released its “2010 National Health Insurer Report Card,” which has a section on the timeliness of insurers’ response to claims submitted electronically by doctors

Jun 28 2010

HealthLeaders Media

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The high-risk insurance pools established by health reform could cost three times as much as initially planned, according to new analysis from the CBO

Jun 28 2010

Boston Globe

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The politics of high health care costs is again roiling this year’s governor’s race after an appeals panel on Thursday rejected the Patrick administration’s cap on premium increases

Jun 28 2010

New York Times

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The Obama administration is poised to award contracts worth hundreds of millions of dollars to about 20 states to run new insurance pools for people with serious medical problems

Jun 28 2010

The Hill

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Millions of people will lose their health insurance and unemployment benefits because of the Senate stalemate over a tax package

Jun 28 2010

Wall Street Journal

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Insurers started selling two new lower-cost Medigap policies and stopped offering four others while the federal government started requiring plans to cover at least a portion of hospice costs

Jun 26 2010

2010 Potpourri XXIII

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Once more into the breach with the Saturday health care roundup, including medication adherence, monitoring patients' health status in their homes, Massachusetts' reform update and insurance costs, hospitals' economic contribution,…

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Jun 25 2010

Bloomberg

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The health-care overhaul is likely to push at least 100 insurers with 200,000 members or less out of the business

Jun 24 2010

AMA Rates Health Plans

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The American Medical Association does an annual survey of claims processing and payment practices by large health plans. The AMA's interpretation of the results needs to be taken with a…

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Jun 23 2010

Wall Street Journal

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Many small businesses would like to keep their grandfathered status but can’t afford the premium increases. Benefits consulting firm Mercer LLC says increases are averaging about 10% in 2010

Jun 22 2010

Washington Post

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High-deductible health plans and the health savings accounts (HSAs) that link to them are becoming a familiar fixture on the insurance landscape

Jun 22 2010

Bloomberg

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Americans buying their own health insurance face an average 20 percent increase in premiums, according to the Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation.

Jun 22 2010

PWC Report on Employer Health Costs

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PriceWaterhouseCooper has a Health Research Institute which periodically looks at medical cost trends. Consistent with other recent publications, PWC believes that costs are continuing to increase at a rate well…

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Jun 19 2010

2010 Potpourri XXII

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Another weekend bonanza of health care items, including health insurance premium increases, genetic testing, remote patient monitoring, eye drug coverage by Medicare, emergency room use under the reform law and…

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Jun 18 2010

New York Times

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The recently passed health-care overhaul’s truly revolutionary impact will be on individuals and employers with fewer than 100 employees

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