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Safety-net hospitals fear fiscal effects of health overhaul
July 27, 2010[Story ID: 3283] “The hard-fought health reforms slowly taking shape across the country are intended to help provide better access to care — but they could mean financial trouble for so-called ‘safety-net’ hospitals that take care of the poor,” The Fresno Bee reports. “Already, hospital officials say millions in payments have been cut this year [...]
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Some small businesses expect continued increases in health costs
July 27, 2010[Story ID: 3262] The (Florence, Ala.) Times Daily: Some small business owners are worried about the continuing rise of health care costs. “Business owners say they offer health care benefits to attract employees and retain workers. But providing health care to employees is the second highest cost for business owners behind payroll and many owners [...]
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Insurers, advocates fight over upcoming spending rules
July 23, 2010[Story ID: 3192] Insurance companies are banding together to weaken a key health law rule that requires them to spend as much as 85 percent of their revenues on medical care, according to the advocacy group Health Care for America Now. At issue is the definition of ‘medical loss ratio,’ a figure used on Wall [...]
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KHN column — Massachusetts shows federal reform headed for trouble
July 23, 2010[Story ID: 3154] In this Kaiser Health News column, Grace-Marie Turner writes that Massachusetts’ health reform has increased demand without increasing the supply of health care providers, it continues to keep people in the dark about the true cost of health care and health insurance, and has not changed incentives for people to seek more [...]
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Marketing Mexican medicine to U.S. patients
July 21, 2010[Story ID: 3085] Marketplace: “A few medical tourism groups want to bring more American patients to Mexican hospitals for more than cheap prescriptions and dental work. They’re promoting top notch care for cheaper price tag than what the patient would get in the U.S.” One such group, located in Tijuana, Mexico, thinks it has the [...]
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Cleveland Clinic to provide heart care in Chicago; Johns Hopkins increases primary care in D.C. area
July 17, 2010[Story ID: 2971] Chicago Tribune: “In a move likely to shake up the market for heart care in the Chicago area, the Cleveland Clinic’s cardiac surgery program has signed an affiliation agreement with Central DuPage Hospital in west suburban Winfield. The deal, announced Thursday, is designed to enhance the heart care provided at the 313-bed [...]
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Insurers will pick up preventive care costs under new rules
July 16, 2010[Story ID: 2945] The recommendations of a federal task force on preventive care – once just suggestions for doctors – will soon become coverage requirements for private insurers under regulations unveiled Wednesday by the Obama administration, according to Kaiser Health News and The Washington Post. “Under the new health care overhaul law, insurers will be [...]
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Mass. lawmakers may strip ban on medical-industry gifts
July 14, 2010[Story ID: 2836] Massachusetts lawmakers may repeal a two-year old law requiring medical firms to disclose gifts to doctors, The Associated Press/Boston Herald reports. “Health care advocates say such a move could put a quick halt to efforts to rein in health care costs and increase transparency in the industry. Those pushing for repeal say [...]
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BCN launches Healthy Blue Living Rewards to improve overall health
July 13, 2010[Story ID: 2797] Introducing Healthy Blue Living Rewards, an extension of Blue Care Network’s successful Healthy Blue Living product. This new product is an innovative outcome-based HMO health care plan that takes personal accountability to the next level by lowering insurance costs for people who succeed in improving their health and thereby making health care [...]
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Experts to Medicare: Dont make the same pilot errors twice
July 9, 2010[Story ID: 2734] The New York Times: Congress created the new $1 billion-a-year Center for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation to experiment with new ‘