Supreme Court’s Bold Move To Save Part Of ACA Preventive Services Package

The U.S. Supreme Court implied Friday that the outcome of a big Affordable Care Act preventive services benefits case may depend on legal issues that are unrelated to health insurance.

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How The State Sent Californians’ Personal Health Data To LinkedIn

The state’s health insurance exchange transmitted pregnancy and domestic abuse data during a marketing campaign. It is reviewing its website practices.

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CMS May Soon Propose Medicaid Provider Tax Regulation

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) submitted a regulation to the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) that could upend Medicaid provider tax program financing. The regulation is titled “Preserving Medicaid Funding for Vulnerable Populations—Closing a Health Care-Related Tax Loophole.” “This proposed rule would update existing regulations that govern the process for states ...

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When Hospitals Ditch Medicare Advantage Plans, Thousands of Members Get To Leave, Too

For several years, Fred Neary had been seeing five doctors at the Baylor Scott & White Health system, whose 52 hospitals serve central and northern Texas, including Neary’s home in Dallas. But in October, his Humana Medicare Advantage plan — an alternative to government-run Medicare — warned that Baylor and the insurer were fighting over ...

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GOP Rep Says Trump ‘Does Not Want’ Agenda Bill ‘To Be A Health Care Bill’

House Ways and Means Chair Jason Smith (R-Mo.) said Sunday that President Trump “does not want” the “one big, beautiful bill” encompassing his agenda “to be a health care bill.” “Medicaid … all falls underneath the Energy and Commerce Committee, not Ways and Means,” Smith said when asked about cuts to Medicaid via the bill on “The Hill Sunday” by NewsNation’s ...

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Meet The (Not Dialysis!) Clinics In SEIU’s Crosshairs

For three election cycles in a row, California ballots included initiatives about how the state’s dialysis centers should operate. With that debate tabled — at least for now — the state’s most powerful collection of unions may have identified its next target to take on at the ballot. SEIU California appears to be setting the stage to go ...

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