When Adult Children Get Sick, It May Be Hard For Parents To Get Information

When Sean Meyers was in a car accident on a November evening three years ago, he was flown by air ambulance to the emergency department at Inova Fairfax Hospital, in Northern Virginia.

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Insurers Seek Big Premium Boosts

Big health plans stung by losses in the first few years of the U.S. health law’s implementation are seeking hefty premium increases for individual plans sold through insurance exchanges in more than a dozen states.

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Medicare’s Drug-Pricing Experiment Stirs Opposition

Aiming to keep costs in check, Medicare is proposing to test different ways to pay for drugs — one of which is similar to CalPERs’ price-control effort for certain surgeries.

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California’s Glaring Shortage of School Nurses

California falls significantly short of a new recommendation by an influential group of pediatricians calling for every school in the United States to have at least one nurse on site.

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Impact of ‘Millionaire Tax’ To Fund Mental Health Care Still Hard To Gauge

An 11-year-old statewide effort to expand mental health services with a tax on high incomes is helping many people, but there’s not enough hard data to measure the overall impact of the billions of dollars raised so far, members of an independent state watchdog agency said Thursday.

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Revised CMS Guidance on Waiting Periods

Subject: Frequently Asked Questions on Health Insurance Market Reforms and Marketplace Standards

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I.R.S. Ruling Is Obstacle to ACO’s

A ruling by the Internal Revenue Service creates a significant obstacle to a new type of health care network that the Obama administration has promoted as a way to provide better care at lower cost, industry lawyers and providers say.

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CaliforniaChoice Launches MyCalChoice Website for Employers

CHOICE Administrators, the parent organization of California’s first small business private health insurance exchange, has launched a new website that provides business owners and human resources (HR) managers with direct access to CaliforniaChoice’s small group health plan options.

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In a Secret Meeting, Revelations on the Battle Over Health Care

On Jan. 13, 2014, a team of Internal Revenue Service financial managers piled into government vans and headed to the Old Executive Office Building for what would turn out to be a very unusual meeting.

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Blue Shield ‘Lifts The Veil’ On Executive Pay

In its first detailed disclosure on executive pay, nonprofit Blue Shield of California said Chief Executive Paul Markovich made $3.5 million last year – a 40 percent increase since he took the top job in 2013.

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