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'Insurance' Tag
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No abortion coverage in high risk pools, HHS says
July 17, 2010[Story ID: 2959] “Elective abortion services will not be covered in state high-risk pools set up to provide coverage for sick people who can’t get insurance, according to Obama administration officials,” CQ HealthBeat reports.
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Sebelius pushing insurance companies to help get more Americans covered
July 9, 2010[Story ID: 2753] In an interview with Reuters, Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius “said she is pushing [insurance] companies to help people gain insurance in the gap between now and 2014. That is when the healthcare law President Barack Obama signed in March mandates extensive changes. Sebelius struck a cooperative tone after publicly [...]
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KHN column — High-risk pools: A rare opportunity for bipartisanship
July 8, 2010[Story ID: 2737] In his latest Kaiser Health News column, Harold Pollack writes: “This month a key program created by the new health overhaul law, the Pre-Existing Condition Insurance Plan, becomes operational in many states. Over the next 40 months, this high-risk insurance pool will provide $5 billion to cover Americans who face the dual [...]
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Crooks defraud health care system with fake insurance plans and phony Medicare, Medicaid claims
July 8, 2010[Story ID: 2720] “Massive unemployment and a changing health care system is creating a breeding ground for con artists.” Fake health insurance is one of the “fastest growing scams.” Advertisements for such products are “stapled to neighborhood telephone polls, flyers left on your car or maybe you’ll get a phone call from someone who’s selling [...]
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Erectile dysfunction drug user over 40 more likely to have sexually transmitted diseases
July 6, 2010[Story ID: 2679] Physicians who prescribe erectile dysfunction drugs for their male patients should be sure to discuss the importance of safer sex practices, even with older patients: that is an important implication of a report in the July 6 issue of Annals of Internal Medicine. The analysis of insurance records of more than 1.4 [...]
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High-risk insurance pools open to people locked out of market
July 2, 2010[Story ID: 2604] People who have been unable to obtain health insurance in the commercial market because of pre-existing conditions can apply for a new, federally funded high-risk insurance pool beginning Thursday, The Wall Street Journal reports. “The program is the first major plank of the health overhaul signed into law in March, and it’s [...]
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HHS, insurers, health systems preparing for health laws impact
June 23, 2010[Story ID: 2463] Politico reports on the Department of Health and Human Services’ HealthCare.gov, “the new Web portal that goes live July 1 and is designed to give consumers a place to research and compare health insurance plans. Since it will be the most tangible link to the health reform law for many Americans, health [...]
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Feds to states: Set up health insurance pools for high-risk patients by July 1
June 18, 2010[Story ID: 2370] The program, one of the highest profile provisions of the law, is designed to provide health insurance to people who have been denied coverage due to a pre-existing medical condition and have been without coverage for at least six months. It will start enrollment on July 1 and begin coverage on Aug. [...]
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Insurers, White House bound by need to make overhaul a success
June 5, 2010[Story ID: 2166] Although the Obama administration and insurance industry had opposing views on aspects of the health bill that Congress eventually passed, they have now found their fortunes bound together as both work to make the overhaul successful, The New York Times reports. “The political fortunes of President Obama and Congressional Democrats depend on [...]
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Health law implementation: Insurance, coverage and Medicare payment questions
June 2, 2010[Story ID: 2132] Kaiser Health News reports that the insurance industry ‘