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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.

High Drug Costs Outweigh ‘Medicare for All’ As Top Healthcare Issue for Voters

The debate over creating a single government health plan for all Americans may be dominating the Democratic presidential campaign, but most voters are focused on a more basic pocketbook issue: prescription drug prices.

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How Will the CMS’s New Health Care Price Transparency Rule Play Out?

The hospital chargemaster list is the latest political hot potato to be gingerly handled by the Trump administration. With new disclosure requirements scheduled to take effect in 2021, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services intends to provide health care consumers access to data never before made public in an effort to help them make better decisions concerning their health.

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Major Insurers Pledge $55 Million to Try to Lower Generic Drug Prices

The Blue Cross Blue Shield Association and others say they have agreed to invest in a nonprofit’s effort to develop and sell cheaper drugs.

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Trump Says He’d Take ‘take a look’ at Changing Entitlements Such as Medicare

President Donald Trump opened the door Wednesday to overhauling entitlement programs such as Medicare, a move that could run counter to a campaign promise – and one that Democrats attacked.

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How Personal Will Facebook’s Health App Get?

Facebook is getting into the health care game. For now, Facebook Preventative Health is keeping it simple and relatively unthreatening. Users must opt into the feature and in return they get push notifications suggesting they engage in various preventative health measures, such as an annual physical or a flu shot.

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Supreme Court Denies Blue States’ Effort to Expedite ObamaCare Challenge

The Supreme Court on Tuesday rejected an effort by Democrats to expedite a challenge to a lower court's ruling striking down a key tenet of ObamaCare, narrowing the possibility that the court takes up the contentious case this year.

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Insurers Deal More Blows To Medicare For All

Health insurance companies are already reporting unprecedented growth in signing up seniors to their Medicare plans for 2020, which is bad news for certain Democrats pushing single payer versions of “Medicare for All.”

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Powerful House Committee is Latest to Take Stab at ‘Surprise’ Billing Fix

The leaders of a powerful House committee are aiming to break through a legislative quagmire as Congress tries to deliver on the stubbornly elusive goal of protecting patients from "surprise" medical bills.

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Study Finds Single-Payer Health Care Plan Saves Money

As Democratic candidates propose a spectrum of health care options on the debate stage, the Medicare for all plan floated by progressive candidates Elizabeth Warren and Bernie Sanders offers a utopian vision of health care in America: universal coverage with no premiums or co-pays. But what about the costs?

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Healthcare CEOs Expected More Progress On Value-Based Care

Healthcare CEOs admit they thought they’d be further along in the transition to value-based care than they are today, a new survey shows.

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