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HHS Releases Guidance on Establishing Health Insurance ExchangesReporting Technology’s Impact on Healthcare

by Admin 05.17.2012

HHS has released guidance to help states establish health insurance exchanges under the federal health reform law or work with the federal government to create a “federally facilitated exchange.” HHS also awarded $181 million in exchange grants to six states. Reuters et al. from iHealthBeat http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Ihealthbeat/~3/dw2zNchWDRc/hhs-releases-guidance-on-establishing-health-insurance-exchanges.aspx

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AHA Expresses Support for Proposed Delay for ICD-10 ComplianceReporting Technology’s Impact on Healthcare

by Admin 05.17.2012

In a letter to CMS, the American Hospital Association voiced its support for the proposed one-year delay to the ICD-10 compliance deadline. AHA said organizations should use the extra time to conduct “extensive testing” of the coding system. Becker’s Hospital Review, AHA News. from iHealthBeat http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Ihealthbeat/~3/KeMpWrXjBHc/aha-expresses-support-for-proposed-delay-for-icd10-compliance.aspx

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Individual Insurance Benefits To Be Available Under Health Reform Would Have Cut Out-Of-Pocket Spending In 2001-08 [Web First]

by Admin 05.16.2012

Under the Affordable Care Act, individual health insurance will probably become more generous and more like employment-related insurance. Currently, individual insurance typically has less generous benefits than employment-related insurance. This study compared out-of-pocket spending on health care between individual and employment-related insurance, controlling for numerous characteristics such as health status. Then it simulated the impact [...]

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With health care restraining costs, can higher education be far behind?

by Admin 05.16.2012

Health care cost containment is no longer a fantasy. While health expenditures have increased much faster than GDP for many years a combination of factors is likely to bring that trend to an end: hard economic times, cost shifting to patients, and increased consumer understanding that more care isn’t always better. The one major sector [...]

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