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Senate Draft Ices Public Option
The Senate Finance Committee has circulated a draft health reform proposal that features an individual mandate, authorizes an expansion of Medicaid, and–hold the presses!–dumps the Big O’s pet project,...
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Billing Costs a Fortune
Everyone knew the US’ Rube Goldberg healthcare system was plagued by high costs for billing- and insurance- related activities, but few would have believed it was this bad. A recently concluded 3-year...
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Bay State Pulling Back on Coverage
In 2006, Massachusetts enacted a law requiring that all residents obtain health insurance. Ever since, developments there have been watched closely since what happens in the state might play out...
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Big O Bobs, Weaves on Public Plan
This post first appeared on the Practice Fusion Blog. During Tuesday’s press frolic, the Big O put some mustard on his pitch for a public option, dismissing as “not logical” suggestions that a...
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Wal-Mart Backs Employer Mandate
Continuing its remarkable transformation into a force for positive change in America’s Rube Goldberg health care system, Wal-Mart announced last week that it supports legislation requiring employers to...
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This is going to Hurt
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services announced last Wednesday that it was changing its payment rates to providers in 2010. The new rates will increase payouts to beleaguered primary care...
View ArticleHealth Insurers Still in Big Tobacco
Fourteen years ago, Harvard researchers revealed that insurance companies were big-time investors in tobacco companies. The seemingly hypocritical position prompted outrage and calls for them to...
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IBM Drops Co-Pays for PCP Visits
IBM, one of largest employers in the nation, has decided to waive the $20 co-payments it had charged company-insured employees for visits to their primary care physicians. Big Blue believes the move...
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Grand Rounds: Bettor’s Guide to the Key Bowl Games in Health Care
Several key health care bowl games will be played in 2011. Their outcomes will affect the health and well-being of a hundred million Americans and help determine the timing of the nation’s inevitable...
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Feds to Scrutinize Insurance Rate Hikes
Later this year, federal regulators will begin reviewing requests by private health insurers who wish to raise premiums by 10% or more, year-over-year. The move represents an expansion of federal...
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