Hall Render

SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

ALABAMA American Family Care opens new health care center in Northeast Birmingham doctors secure $13.9M operating margin, $1B net gain halfway through its first year Illinois public health officials warn of “rising COVID-19 activity” St. million to Resolve False Claims Act Allegations Michigan Pain Center Owner Pays $6.5M

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Center for Health Insurance Reform

APRIL 3, 2023

President Biden released his Fiscal Year 2024 budget earlier this month, outlining the administration’s spending and policy priorities for a number of key programs, including the Affordable Care Act (ACA) Marketplaces.

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Kaiser Health News

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

Newsom, un agitador liberal en su segundo mandato como gobernador de California, no se presenta a las elecciones presidenciales de 2024. Obamacare Florida DeSantis se ha negado a ampliar la elegibilidad de Medicaid a más personas bajo la Ley de Cuidado de Salud a Bajo Precio (ACA). “Yo llevaré mi gomina.

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Healthcare Law Blog

DECEMBER 11, 2023

Permitting states to expand Medicaid eligibility by disregarding more income and resource threshold standards for individuals that are excepted from the application of the Modified Adjusted Gross Income financial methodology. CMS will be accepting public comments on this Proposed Rule through January 8, 2024.

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Hall Render

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

11 Plan To Slash $1.5B 11 Plan To Slash $1.5B face growing challenges to stay open KENTUCKY BehaVR merges with New York City-based Fern Health For years, a powerful Louisville hospital sued people for unpaid bills.

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Hall Render

MARCH 31, 2023

in 2022, survey finds Senate votes to end COVID-19 national emergency Why are 600+ rural hospitals at risk of closing?

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Hall Render

OCTOBER 27, 2023

Ransomware attacks against hospitals put patients’ lives at risk, researchers say States, FTC continue to target noncompetes: 3 updates The best hospital in each state, per Newsweek What to know about Stark law’s $9.2M Here’s why Grady Health System recognized as health care I.T.

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Healthcare Law Blog

AUGUST 25, 2022

Additional updates of note include: ACA Premium Tax Credit Eligibility. As of 2024, the 5% cost-sharing under Part D for beneficiaries has been eliminated when costs exceed $7,000 (i.e., Improvement of Access to Adult Vaccines under Medicaid and CHIP. Other Updates. Catastrophic Phase Cost-Sharing. the “catastrophic phase”).

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Healthcare Law Blog

JANUARY 4, 2023

The HHS Notice of Benefit and Payment Parameters for 2024 (“Proposed Rule”) would streamline ACA health plan selection, simplify marketplace enrollment, and expand access to care for low-income and medically underserved consumers through revision of network adequacy and essential community provider (“ECP”) standards.

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Hall Render

MARCH 29, 2024

James Hospital president NEBRASKA Hospital Medicaid funding bill passes on final reading How Nebraska Medicine used AI to reduce first-year nurse turnover by nearly 50% State auditor exposes questionable handling by DHHS of tens of millions of federal dollars Bill passed to bring in more than $1.4 migrants are a housing challenge.

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Kaiser Health News

OCTOBER 31, 2023

Para millones de personas que compran su propio seguro de salud a través del mercado establecido por la Ley de Cuidado de Salud a Bajo Precio (ACA, popularmente conocida como Obamacare), el final del año trae un ajuste de cuentas: es el momento de comparar beneficios y precios, cambiar a un nuevo plan o inscribirse por primera vez.

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Kaiser Health News

OCTOBER 31, 2023

1 for the ACA’s federal and state exchanges. Consumers can go online, call, or seek help from a broker or other assister to learn their 2024 coverage options, calculate their potential subsidies, or change plans. It Could Be Another Record Year ACA plans are now well entrenched — an estimated 16.3

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Hall Render

JUNE 16, 2023

24 spot in national ranking of life science talent What changes did CT make to its Medicaid program in 2023? before Baptist merger Bankruptcy Trustee Wants Doctor To Pay Her $1.6M Rules Luna and MedStar Health partner to improve access to in-home, in-person outpatient physical therapy across Washington, D.C.,

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Hall Render

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

s largest community health center move to unionize DELAWARE Delaware gets top rating for hospital maternity care Delaware system hits funding goal, raises objective ACA enrollment begins, most plan options offered in Delaware marketplace history Nemours Children’s Health Names Delaware Valley Regional President FLORIDA Ascension St.

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Health Populi

DECEMBER 6, 2023

A close second in line is affordability of health care, as consumers’ household budgets must make room for paying medical bills — with prescription drug costs also very important as a discussion topic for 2024 Presidential candidates, we learn from the latest KFF Health Tracking Poll published 1 December.

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Hall Render

MAY 12, 2023

Connecticut is weighing several changes to Medicaid. Here’s what it means. Cloud Hospital names Chief Quality Officer Tampa’s Lions Eye Institute adopts new name Troubled Cano Health records $60.6M Cloud Hospital names Chief Quality Officer Tampa’s Lions Eye Institute adopts new name Troubled Cano Health records $60.6M

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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

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Kaiser Health News

JULY 28, 2022

But the measure is still a fraction of what President Joe Biden and Democratic leaders had hoped for and does not include such high-profile health priorities as new Medicare benefits or expanded eligibility for insurance for people in states that did not opt to expand the Medicaid program.

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