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HHS Issues Proposed Rule to Provide Clarity on Rights of Conscience in Healthcare

Healthcare Law Blog

The ACA also allows states to prohibit abortion coverage in their qualified health plans, but requires that such plans provide notice to potential enrollees of the exclusion of abortion coverage. The 2019 Final Rule was therefore vacated in its entirety and HHS has been operating under the 2011 Final Rule since its adoption.

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Reduced Co-Insurance for Screening Colonoscopies

Medisys Compliance

Section 4104 of the Affordable Care Act (ACA) defined the term ‘preventive services’ to include ‘colorectal cancer screening tests’ and, as a result, it waives any coinsurance that would otherwise apply under Section 1833(a)(1) of the Social Security Act for screening colonoscopies. Background for Reduced Co-Insurance.

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Americans’ Top Sources of Stress are Money, Money, Money and Family

Health Populi

Here’s a study the GAO wrote back in 2011 detailing the need to overcome this labor mobility problem, which is alive and well (and not in a healthy sense) in 2019 based on the TransAmerica study.

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CMS Begins Option to Extend Medicaid Postpartum Coverage

Healthcare Law Blog

Mothers with incomes up to 138% of the federal poverty level (“FPL”) in states which have expanded Medicaid under the Affordable Care Act (“ACA”) are eligible to remain covered by Medicaid and those with incomes above 138% FPL may be eligible to qualify for subsidized coverage through the ACA marketplace. 31, 2022). [2] 2] Emily E.

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CMS BLOG: Medicare for All? Just another name for a government-run, single payer system

CMS.gov

percent from 2011-2016, from $17.6 Ask yourself why proponents of ‘Medicare for All’ are advocating such a radical reform of health care just five years after the full implementation of the Affordable Care Act (ACA), often referred to as Obamacare. It is certainly not because the ACA has worked. billion to $28.0

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Vote As If Your Health Depended Upon It; Learning from Governor Kasich on Voting Day 2018

Health Populi

Governor Kasich has led the Buckeye State since 2011, and his second and final term ends in January 2019. “Citizens scare politicians,” I heard Governor John Kasich say to Nicole Wallace on her show Deadline: White House yesterday, just hours from today’s U.S. 2018 midterm elections.