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Compliance

This section focuses on health care compliance and regulations – both national and state – including the ACA. It includes changes in health care law, regulation, and court decisions and their impact on health insurance professionals, employers, and individuals.

Payer Participation In ACA Exchanges Rises For Third Year In A Row: KFF

More insurers are entering the Affordable Care Act exchanges for the third year in a row, resulting in more options for consumers, according to a new analysis from the Kaiser Family Foundation.

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COVID-19 Surge Threatens Hospital Finances

Hospital operating margins are poised to fall as COVID-19 cases increase, new data show. Although the federal relief funding buoyed hospitals, the median hospital operating margin still dropped 1.2 percentage points (8.5%) year over year, and 1.7 percentage points (18.7%) for January through

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FDA Allows Emergency Use Of Antibody Drug Trump Received

U.S. health officials Saturday agreed to allow emergency use of a second antibody drug to help the immune system fight COVID-19, an experimental medicine that President Donald Trump was given when he was sickened last month.

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Astra-Oxford Vaccine Found Effective in Preventing Covid

A Covid-19 vaccine developed by the University of Oxford and AstraZeneca Plc prevented a majority of people from getting the disease in a large trial, another promising development in the quest to end the pandemic, and the rollout could begin next month.

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What Amazon’s Big Pharmacy News Means For US Health Care

Amazon and American health care look, at first glance, like a mismatch. Yet the 21st century’s most ruthlessly efficient retailer has been trying for several years now to gain a bigger foothold in the bloated, borderline nonsensical health system of the world’s richest nation.

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Trump’s New Drug-Pricing Plan Overhauls Outpatient Drug Pay Starting Jan. 1

The Trump administration is trying to overhaul some providers' payments for outpatient drugs in six weeks as it makes a last-ditch attempt to finalize drug-pricing policies that have languished in regulatory limbo.

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Now Comes The Hardest Part: Getting A Coronavirus Vaccine From Loading Dock To Upper Arm

Riverside Health System in Virginia has ordered a specialized freezer for each of its five hospitals to keep precious vials of coronavirus vaccine as cold as a deep Antarctic freeze.

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Moderna’s Coronavirus Vaccine Is 94.5% Effective, According To Company Data

The Moderna vaccine is 94.5% effective against coronavirus, according to early data released Monday by the company, making it the second vaccine in the United States to have a stunningly high success rate.

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National Lockdown ‘A Measure Of Last Resort,’ Biden Coronavirus Taskforce Head Says

A national lockdown as Covid-19 cases tick up is "a measure of last resort," the co-chair of Joe Biden's coronavirus taskforce, Vivek Murthy, said Sunday.

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20 Million Americans Could Receive COVID-19 Vaccine In December

Americans can expect that about 25 to 30 million people could be vaccinated each month afterward, said Moncef Slaoui, co-lead of Operation Warp Speed.

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