Small Businesses Recovering Despite Pandemic

Small businesses are gaining more revenue this year despite the lingering challenges from COVID-19 and reversing last year’s losses, according to a report from Intuit’s QuickBooks unit. The report examined how small and midsized businesses performed financially in different industries and geographies from March 2020 to March 2021, analyzing anonymized revenue data drawn from approximately ...

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Kaiser Permanente Researchers Exploring How AI Can Improve Care For Heart Disease Patients

Kaiser Permanente is exploring the use of artificial intelligence to cull through doctors’ medical reports and help identify patients with aortic stenosis, a common heart valve disease, and other chronic health conditions. As part of ongoing research into the predictors of valvular heart disease, researchers looked at whether they could train AI software to spot ...

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CMS: Obamacare Cost-Sharing Change Cuts Out-Of-Pocket Costs By $400

CMS on Friday significantly changed how Affordable Care Act exchanges will run next year, intending to lower out-of-pocket costs for Obamacare customers, streamline enrollees’ user experience and update how insurers are paid for the risks they take on their members. In its second update to the annual benefit and payment parameters rule, the agency announced ...

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Reduced Spending, Utilization Drove Health Insurers’ 2020 Profits

Health‌ ‌insurers‌ ‌remained‌ ‌profitable‌ ‌across‌ ‌markets‌ ‌in‌ ‌2020‌ ‌because‌ ‌of‌ ‌an‌ ‌unprecedented‌ ‌decrease‌ ‌in‌ ‌health‌ ‌spending‌ ‌and‌ ‌utilization‌ ‌caused‌ ‌by‌ ‌the‌ ‌pandemic.‌ ‌ Hospitals,‌ ‌physicians‌ ‌and‌ ‌other‌ ‌health care‌ ‌providers‌ ‌canceled‌ ‌elective‌ ‌procedures‌ ‌to‌ ‌free‌ ‌up‌ ‌beds,‌ ‌staff‌ ‌and‌ ‌supplies‌ ‌early‌ ‌in‌ ‌the‌ ‌pandemic‌ ‌and‌ ‌to‌ ‌limit‌ ‌unnecessary‌ ‌exposure‌ ‌and‌ ‌risk‌ ‌of‌ ‌infection.‌ ‌Patients‌ ‌also‌ ...

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Bill Would Create Public Health Insurance Option In Nevada

With about a month left in the Legislative session, Nevada lawmakers are considering a bill that would establish a state public health insurance option. Senate Bill 420, led by Senate Majority Leader Nicole Cannizzaro, D-Las Vegas, would make the so-called Nevada Option available through the state’s insurance marketplace and state-contracted health insurers

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Exchange Offers Greater Savings Because Of ARP

Nevada Health Link, the online health insurance marketplace operated by the Silver State Health Insurance Exchange, is offering even bigger coverage savings to eligible uninsured and insured off-Exchange Nevadans in accordance with the American Rescue Plan Act of 2021 passed by Congress and signed into law by President Biden on March 11.

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