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Mary Lou Retton’s Explanation of Health Insurance Takes Some Somersaults

Kaiser Health News

Under the law, which has offered coverage through state and federal marketplaces since 2014, insurers are barred from rejecting people with preexisting conditions and cannot charge higher premiums for them, either. For those with very low incomes, the law expanded eligibility for Medicaid, which is a state-federal program.

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Bonus Features – February 26, 2023 – Accenture says more adequate Medicaid networks could save $912 million annually, InterSystems named data partner of NCQA, and more

Healthcare IT Today

Proposed fixes include improved health insurance literacy – which could help could help 3.8 billion total transactions since 2014. F utureRX launched its platform for health plans and PBMs , with modules for uses cases ranging from prior authorization to drug management.

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CMS Awards Accenture Federal Services with $628M Contract to Support Healthcare.gov

HIT Consultant

Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) to continue its work supporting Healthcare.gov. – In 2014, Accenture Federal Services was awarded a prime contract to take over management of the Federally-Facilitated Exchange (FFE). .

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One in Two Americans with Work-Based Insurance Worries That Healthcare Costs Could Lead to Bankruptcy

Health Populi

with employer-sponsored health insurance worry that a major health event in their household could lead to bankruptcy, according to research gathered by West Health and Gallup in Business Speaks: The Future of Employer-Sponsored Insurance. Health Populi’s Hot Points: U.S. One-half of U.S. households.

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Two NY Home Healthcare Agencies Settle False Claims Act Allegations for $5.4 Million 

Healthcare Compliance Blog

The agencies received millions of dollars in funding from Medicaid, which is funded in part by the federal government, and much of that money was meant to pay the wages and benefits of their aides. Under the Wage Parity Law, which is funded by Medicaid, aides are to be paid a minimum amount in total compensation.

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Want Vulnerable Californians to Have Healthier Pregnancies? Doulas Say the State Must Pay Up.

Kaiser Health News

But the new benefit for people enrolled in Medi-Cal, the state’s Medicaid health insurance program, has been delayed twice as the state and doulas — nonmedical workers who help parents before, during, and after birth — haggle over how much they should get paid.

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How Physician Groups Can Fight Back Against Private Equity

HIT Consultant

They alleged that these procedures were performed unnecessarily, driven by a corporate strategy to maximize profits by overtreating children from lower-income families enrolled in Medicaid. A recent investigation by Kaiser Health News has shed light on the detrimental impact of private equity in healthcare.