Tag: Healthcare
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Update – Medicare Advantage – No No
Medicare Advantage (MA) has received mixed reviews after 25 years of implementation. While it may benefit employers, unions, and states with retiree obligations, it has raised concerns for seniors, doctors, and the government. Seniors may receive worse care under MA compared to traditional Medicare, doctors face cumbersome prior authorizations, and the federal government spends more…
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Affordable Care Act’s Glitch
A new KFF analysis estimates 5.1 million people nationally fall into the Affordable Care Act’s “family glitch” that occurs when a worker receives an offer of affordable employer coverage for themselves but not for their dependents, making them ineligible for financial assistance for marketplace coverage. The so-called glitch occurs because the ACA prohibits people with…
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Understanding #Medicare Parts A, B, C & D
Do you really need to know the details of what Parts A, B, C, and D stand for? Doesn’t Medicare just pay its share of your bills and that’s it? Well, not entirely. Medicare’s architecture is more than a tad weird, but each of its building blocks determines the coverage you get and what you…
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Black Doctors Work to Make Coronavirus Testing More Equitable
When the coronavirus arrived in Philadelphia in March, Dr. Ala Stanford hunkered down at home with her husband and kids. A pediatric surgeon with a private practice, she has staff privileges at a few suburban Philadelphia hospitals. For weeks, most of her usual procedures and patient visits were canceled. So she found herself, like a…
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What Changes May Occur With Trumps Healthcare Plan
Two years later, what has his administration done to change the ACA, and who’s been affected? Below are five of the biggest changes to the federal health law under President Trump. 1. Individual mandate eliminated What is it? The individual mandate is the requirement that all U.S. residents either have health insurance or pay a…
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Dems tee up new document fight with DOJ over Obamacare – POLITICO
Health care Dems tee up new document fight with DOJ over Obamacare By KYLE CHENEY 05/14/2019 06:00 AM EDT House Democrats are mounting yet another confrontation with the Justice Department that could lead to subpoenas, but this time it’s not about special counsel Robert Mueller’s report — it’s about health care. Five committee chairman foreshadowed…
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#HealthInsurance Premiums and Coverage
This year’s sprawling InsureTech Connect conference, held October 2-3 in Las Vegas, was bigger and better than ever. More than 6,000 insurance company and insuretech representatives, along with 50 insurance regulators, shared what’s happening in the insuretech space today and what industry impacts to expect in the near term. (No one predicted that the conference-ending…
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AHCA or Trumpcare
As a business owner, you may have heard a lot of buzz about Obamacare’s “employer mandate.” Maybe you’re still wondering what it is and whether it applies to you. The short answer is that if you have fewer than 50 full-time-equivalent (FTE) employees, you don’t have to worry about the employer mandate. (For a definition…
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The Dark World of Healthcare Marketing – What You Should Know
Solicitation and Marketing Requirements Advertising The purpose of an advertising regulation is to give a complete and accurate description to the public, prevent unfair competition, and set a minimum standard of conduct. In most states, each insurer must provide the Department of Insurance a copy of any advertisement prior to its use. Each insurer…