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This broad category includes articles concerning health insurance costs, carrier and health plan news, changing benefits technology, and surveys by the Kaiser Family Foundation and others on employee benefits.

Insurers Fall Short In Catching And Reporting Medicaid Fraud, Inspectors Find

Despite receiving billions of dollars in taxpayer money, Medicaid insurers are lax in ferreting out fraud and neglect to tell states about unscrupulous medical providers, according to a federal report released Thursday.

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California Doctors Who Treat Poor Get Reimbursement Boost

California is boosting reimbursement payments for doctors and dentists who treat the state’s poorest residents. It’s part of an incentive to expand access under Medi-Cal, which offers free or low-cost health coverage to more than 13 million people — a third of the state's population.

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Health Insurers Struggle With Sudden Freeze On ACA Payouts

Health insurers and Covered California officials are facing another curveball from the Trump administration on the Affordable Care Act that could rattle the insurance market.

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New H.S.A. Bills Just Announced by House Ways & Means Committee

Chairman Brady Announces Full Committee Markup

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Doctors, Nurses and Insurers Are Spending Big To Determine How You’ll Get Your Health Care

Insurers, doctors and nurses are spending millions on lobbying and donations to lawmakers' campaigns in the current legislative session, battling over costly large-scale changes as they await Gov. Jerry Brown's successor.

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Trump Slams Pfizer After July 1 Drug Price Hikes

U.S. President Donald Trump on Monday took aim at Pfizer Inc and other U.S. drugmakers after they raised prices on some of their medicines on July 1, saying his administration would act in response.

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Affordable Care Act’s Unexpected Side Effect: An IOU to the IRS

A $13,000 tax bill was the last thing Bill and Cathy Stapp expected when they signed up for Covered California health insurance in late 2013.

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Work in Health Care? Keep An Eye On These Five California Bills That Could Become Law

Among the hundreds of bills on the Legislature's agenda for August are ones that would make key changes in the lives of California health care workers. Here are five to watch.

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Big Pharma Abandons Lawsuit Over Nevada’s Insulin Pricing Transparency Law After State Approves Trade Secret Protection Regulations

Two national drug lobbying organizations dropped a lawsuit Thursday challenging the constitutionality of Nevada’s first-in-the-nation insulin pricing transparency law a little less than a month after the state approved regulations allowing drug companies to protect certain information they turn over to the state from public disclosure.

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California Law Introduces New Data Concerns for Healthcare Organizations

California legislators are giving companies dealing in personal data—including some health information—yet another set of restrictions to contend with thanks to a new broad privacy law passed last week.

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