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Monday, January 28, 2013

Google Alert - health insurance News

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4 Points to Know About Health Care Exchanges and What They Are Missing
Forbes
There are many questions about the health care exchanges: What will they look like, how will they operate and is there a benefit in going to the exchange for health insurance? While there are some states that are still deciding, the deadline for ...
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What the new health care market means for Fla.
MiamiHerald.com
MIAMI -- Florida's Republican lawmakers are reluctantly acknowledging that the Affordable Care Act is the law of the land and are taking steps to determine exactly what that will look like. The Sunshine State has one of the highest numbers of uninsured ...
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So you want to start a health insurance plan
Washington Post (blog)
He had just relocated from upstate New York to New Mexico to launch a new health insurance company. Along with the challenges of building a network of doctors and recruiting patients, the computers in his new office didn't work. Printer paper was ...
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Rick Scott Health Care Costs Run Less Than $400 Per Year
Huffington Post
The Associated Press reported Monday that Gov. Rick Scott (R) and dozens of Sunshine State officials are receiving coverage for their families at less than $400 annually. Back in 2011, the AP reported a similar deal, which at the time applied to more ...
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SBA launches website on health-care reform
Charlotte Business Journal
The web page will connect business owners with information related to implementation of the health-care reform legislation. The Affordable Care Act includes measures for small businesses such as ways to slow the growth of insurance premium costs, while ...
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Kicked off parent's health plan: Now what?
MSN Money
Normally you sign up for health insurance at work during open enrollment, which typically takes place in the fall for the following year. But under federal law you're eligible to sign up outside of the open enrollment period if you've lost coverage on ...
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New health insurance market opens in WA in October
Seattle Post Intelligencer
SEATTLE (AP) — Another aspect of President Barack Obama's health care law will go from concept to reality this fall as Washington residents who don't have health insurance will become eligible for Medicaid or gain access to a new insurance exchange.
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Q&A on Arizona health insurance exchanges
AZFamily
PHOENIX (AP) -- This fall, new insurance markets called exchanges will open in each state under provisions of President Barack Obama's health care law. They'll offer private coverage and government aid to help pay premiums. Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer has ...
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NY health exchange expects to insure 1.1 million
Wall Street Journal
ALBANY, N.Y. — President Barack Obama's federal health care overhaul, known as the Affordable Care Act, requires every state to have a new health insurance marketplace called an exchange. The exchange will be an online shopping center for small ...
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Climate change: the Obamacare of the second term ...
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Sunday, January 27, 2013

Google Alert - Medicare

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State, feds negotiate Medicare waiver
Cumberland Times-News
Maryland is the only state in the nation that has a Medicare waiver. Unlike the other 49 states, it is exempt from federal Medicare rates and is permitted to set health care prices for all payers. This exemption translates into over $1.6 billion in ...
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Medicare Cut Threatens to Cost Arkansas Hospitals $407M
Arkansas Business Online
"Aggregately, Arkansas hospitals stand to lose $2 billion over a 10-year period in Medicare cuts, and that applies pretty much to hospitals across the board," said Paul Cunningham, executive vice president of the Arkansas Hospital Association. "For ...
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Medicare ruling approved; quick benefit sought
Barre Montpelier Times Argus
Vermont Legal Aid and the Center for Medicare Advocacy settled a class-action lawsuit against the federal government over Medicare coverage of maintenance therapy. When U.S. District Judge Christina Reiss approved the settlement Thursday to cover ...
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Medicare, Social Security are Iowa lifelines
KMAland
(KMAland) -- Nearly 436,000 Iowans receive Social Security benefits and about the same number get Medicare. A new wave of Iowans will soon be counting on those programs, and an AARP report details the middle-class prospects for a secure retirement.
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Editorial: A Medicare giveaway on the fiscal cliff
MetroWest Daily News
Among the many reasons Americans now rank Congress somewhere below cockroaches in public approval are these: It can't get anything done on time, everything comes down to last-minute negotiations behind closed doors, and there's usually something ...
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State program helps Ohioans on Medicare save $5.5M
Marietta Times
COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — Officials say a state assistance program helped Ohioans with Medicare coverage save a record $5.5 million during the fall open-enrollment period. The state Department of Insurance says more than 38,000 beneficiaries were ...
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Social Security, Medicare in budget crosshairs
UPI.com
Currently, Social Security and Medicare gobble up more than a third of the federal budget, the Heritage Foundation reported. Dollar outlays for Social Security are up 35 percent since 2002, from $577,713 in 2002 to $781,172 last year, averaging $1,229 ...
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The SMART Act, Finally, an Easier Road to Settlement for Medicare Recipients ...
Legal Examiner
Previously, Medicare made speedy settlements virtually impossible. It had gotten so bad that I became aware of attorneys in Illinois and attorneys in Missouri declining to represent people who were on Medicare, or soon would be, because the attorney ...
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Medicare and working past one's 65th birthday
NorthJersey.com
If you plan to work beyond your 65th birthday, you have a very important decision to make. Should you or should you not sign up for Medicare Parts A and B? If you are employed by a company with less than 20 employees, you must sign up for Medicare.
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Report: Medicare Paid Out Millions To Claims By Illegals | Medicare ...
By KYLE CHENEY | 1/24/13 12:41 PM ESTIllegal immigrants and prison inmates received more than $120 million in Medicare services from 2009-2011 despite ...
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Buying your own health insurance will never be the same
NBCNews.com (blog)
This fall, new insurance markets called exchanges will open in each state, marking the long-awaited and much-debated debut of President Barack Obama's health care overhaul. The goal is quality coverage for millions of uninsured people in the United ...
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Health Care Exchanges To Transform Insurance Market
Huffington Post
The health care law offers sliding-scale subsidies based on income for individuals and families making up to four times the federal poverty level, about $44,700 for singles, $92,200 for a family of four. But do yourself a favor and read the fine print ...
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Frustration with mental health care
Washington Post
It is past time that we talked about the problems associated with mental health care ["A long wait for mental health care," Metro, Jan. 23]. The Dubin family, featured in the article, is not alone in its experience and heartache. I have sat in the ...
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Health insurance tips for small-business owners
Los Angeles Times
Here are some suggestions from experts for small businesses deciding whether to offer employee health insurance in 2014: 1. Consider the nature of your business. Small companies made up primarily of owners — such as physician and dentist offices and ...
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Health care: A glossary of new words for consumers
OregonLive.com
glossary.jpg View full size In a 2007 file photo, Helen Heinlo smokes outside of a coffee shop in Belmont, Calif. Millions of smokers could be priced out of health insurance because of tobacco penalties in President Barack Obama̢۪s health care law ...
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Health insurance exchanges will transform market
Boston.com
Health insurance exchanges will change the way people buy coverage and will help millions of uninsured people get a private plan. Nearly 49 million people are uninsured in the United States, but the numbers vary dramatically by state. Exchanges will be ...
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Minn. building new health insurance marketplace
KARE
Big changes are coming in how a fourth of all Minnesotans get health insurance as the state rushes to build a new kind of marketplace that will help about 1.3 million people choose their best coverage options. It's called a health care exchange, a ...
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CHKD could win big - and lose big - with health care act
The Virginian-Pilot
Medicaid, the state and federally funded health insurance for low-income and disabled people, is behind CHKD's modest windfall and potential woes. In Virginia, more than 50 percent of the people covered by Medicaid are children. That means it pays a ...
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Glenda Overstreet: Be proactive with health care
Topeka Capital Journal
Since the beginning of the recent flu epidemic, many people who may not have been to a hospital for some time found themselves or a loved one as a patient. Just how fortunate are those who have health insurance compared to those who don't? Sometimes ...
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Health care not a problem, Ruth's says
Orlando Sentinel
Since its flagship Ruth's Chris Steak House generally only opens for dinner, the company said it only requires employees to work 20 hours a week for benefits such as health insurance. Employees who have worked at least 10 years for the company need ...
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Saturday, January 26, 2013

Google Alert - Medicare

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LI's Bishop joins GOP bid to repeal Medicare cost-control board
Newsday
Bishop of Southampton is one of four Democrats and 73 Republicans who co-sponsored a bill to repeal the Independent Payment Advisory Board, which the Congressional Budget Office said would save $3.1 billion in Medicare costs from 2013 to 2022.
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Congress must act on Medicare reform
Baltimore Sun
Physicians who care for millions of Medicare patients across our nation are weary of the destabilizing series of scheduled cuts and short-term patches, coupled with payment rates that have fallen well below the rate of inflation over the past decade ...
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Letters: Give doctors the tools to fix Medicare
Los Angeles Times
Re "Healthcare reform's fail-safe," Editorial, Jan. 20. The Times' editorial on the Independent Payment Advisory Board, or IPAB, underestimates the impact of the board's ability to make indiscriminate cuts to Medicare. Physicians are already dealing ...
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GOP Vows To Stick To Principles, Including Medicare And Medicaid
Kaiser Health News
As chairman of the House Budget Committee, Ryan said ... he would promote changes to Medicare and Medicaid and would propose a budget "that will balance and pay down the debt" (Thomas, 1/26). Reuters: Bruised Republicans Vow To Give Party's ...
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Congressional vote chart: How Montanans voted on Medicare, debt and more
The Missoulian
Attached is the weekly vote chart showing how Montana's Congressional delegation voted on some major issues in the week ending Jan. 25, 2013. Votes of Sen. Max Baucus, Democrat; Rep. Steve Daines, Republican; and Sen. Jon Tester, Democrat are ...
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Reports: Medicare paid $120M in illegal care
KOKH FOX25
Reports: Medicare paid $120M in illegal care. By KELLI KENNEDY Associated Press MIAMI (AP) -- Two new reports show that the taxpayer-funded Medicare program paid more than $120 million from 2009 to 2011 in violation of federal law for medical ...
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Scammers targeting seniors with Medicare benefits calls
DesMoinesRegister.com
Scammers have been calling seniors asking to visit them at home with new details about their Medicare benefits in an attempt to obtain personal information to commit financial fraud, according to a news release from the Iowa Senior Medicare Patrol.
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Op-Ed: $500M Health rort — Amgen Medicare story stinks up a storm
Call it creative representation. Call it a rort. Call it the way things happen in Washington. Amgen has used Congressional dynamics to shore up $500 million in savings from Medicare.
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Birth Control Lawsuits: Obama Health Care Mandates Loosen Legal Challenges
Huffington Post
NEW YORK -- The legal challenges over religious freedom and the birth control coverage requirement in President Barack Obama's health care overhaul appear to be moving toward the U.S. Supreme Court. Faith-affiliated charities, hospitals and ...
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Companies weigh options under health care changes
WRTV Indianapolis
The 2010 Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act requires companies to begin offering health insurance to employees working at least 30 hours a week beginning next year. Employers with more than 50 workers that fail to offer health benefits for ...
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New national health care law clouds reimbursement picture for hospitals
Journal Times
RACINE COUNTY — The Affordable Care Act is scrambling the reimbursement picture for hospitals in ways that make it impossible to predict the outcomes, Wheaton Franciscan executives say. The new national health care law, or Obamacare, and other ...
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Aurora Health Care Says It Will Lay Off Employees Because Of Obamacare
Huffington Post
Dr. Nick Turkal, CEO of Wisconsin-based non-profit health care provider Aurora Health Care, announced earlier this month that his employer would be cutting jobs due to Obamacare, The Journal Times reports. In a letter to employees he wrote that the ...
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Health insurance view mixed among the uninsured
Enid News & Eagle
Across the street at Zocolo's Mexican Restaurant, owner Sherry Seaberg also does without health insurance herself, and does not offer it to her employees. She said it's not a question of politics or philosophy, but of survival. "We have very small ...
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Health care to keep growing in Topeka
Topeka Capital Journal
You would be hard-pressed to find a pundit or economist who thinks the current health care model is sustainable, but it is equally difficult to dispute the role hospitals have in generating jobs and income, especially in rural communities. In Topeka ...
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Premiums to rise under health care law
Dayton Daily News
Elisabeth Dyer of Harrison Twp. is a lymphoma survivor. She was worried that her husband might lose his job at Kodak -- and his health insurance along with it -- and her cancer history would have prevented her from getting new coverage if not the for ...
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Health insurance costs for Gastonia employees likely to rise
Gaston Gazette
Gastonia's health insurance fund is hemorrhaging, and the Band Aid beginning this summer will likely involve higher costs for city employees. "The health insurance issue is the most critical thing we're facing," said City Manager Ed Munn, during a City ...
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CompuNet Clinical adjusts for health care reform
Dayton Daily News
CompuNet Clinical Laboratories is preparing for its future under health care reform, which changes how care providers are paid, puts more focus on preventative health measures, and increases the number of people insured and receiving services. Reform ...
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So far, health care reform nothing but words
Tribune-Review
The law's most controversial component — requiring most Americans to carry health insurance or face a penalty — takes effect in about 11 months. A lot needs to happen before that, including the creation of online health insurance marketplaces to ...
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