Kaiser Health News

JANUARY 12, 2024

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. And even with insurance, many U.S. This is one of the law’s most popular provisions , according to opinion surveys.

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Health Populi

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

there is still a negative feeling about the economy in a personal context, revealed in the Kaiser Family Foundation Health Tracking Poll for February 2024. The third chart tells an important story about solidarity on these health care cost issues across the 3 main political party members in the U.S.

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Jane Sarashon

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

NABIP, whose members represent professionals in the health insurance benefits industry, drafted and adopted a new American Healthcare Consumer Bill of Rights launched at the meeting. The Affordable Care Act (ACA) of 2010 had embedded within the law a Patient’s Bill of Rights.

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Compliancy Group

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

In the other fraud scheme, Medicare patients were billed an estimated $2 billion for urinary catheters they never received. Pharmacy Fraud and Kickback Scheme In early February 2024, the co-owner and the administrator of a New Jersey pharmacy admitted to defrauding insurance providers, including Medicare and Medicaid.

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Hall Render

JUNE 16, 2023

Artificial Intelligence Poses Threat to Patient Privacy Bill for Rural Hospital Cyber Skills Passes Senate Committee Chemotherapy shortages push cancer centers toward crisis CMS estimates national spending on hospital care grew just 0.8% Health director New tool tracks gun injuries at D.C. emergency rooms D.C.

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Hall Render

MAY 12, 2023

Cloud Hospital names Chief Quality Officer Tampa’s Lions Eye Institute adopts new name Troubled Cano Health records $60.6M Luke’s Health chief nursing executive: ‘Don’t give up on health care’ Swedish health tech company Qbtech opens U.S. Here’s what it means.

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Hall Render

JUNE 2, 2023

of Maryland medical school opens addiction research institute in Baltimore MedStar Health breaks even in Q1 as revenues near $2B MASSACHUSETTS Boston Hospital Pays $5.7 to resolve False Claims allegations Q&A with Ken DeFurio, CEO of the new Independence Health System St.

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