News tagged with health funding
Proposed 'Medicare Essential' plan estimated to save $180 billion over 10 years
Combining Medicare's hospital, physician, and prescription drug coverage with commonly purchased private supplemental coverage into one health plan could produce national savings of $180 billion over a decade while improving ...
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May 06, 2013 |
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New health insurance survey: 84 million people were uninsured for a time or underinsured in 2012
Eighty-four million people―nearly half of all working-age U.S. adults―went without health insurance for a time last year or had out-of-pocket costs that were so high relative to their income they were considered underinsured, ...
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Apr 26, 2013 |
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CMS softens Medicare Advantage funding changes
Medicare Advantage customers may not see the drastic 2014 benefit cuts or premium hikes that insurers have been warning about after all.
Health
Apr 02, 2013 |
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Are accountable care organizations 'improving population health'?
Accountable Care Organizations (ACOs), a key feature of the Affordable Care Act (ACA), aim to control health care costs, enhance quality in health care and improve population health. But what does "improving population health" ...
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Mar 19, 2013 |
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States select benchmark plans for essential health benefit required by Affordable Care Act
Twenty-four states and the District of Columbia have selected the health insurance plan in their state that will serve as the "essential health benefit" package sold by all insurers participating in the new health insurance ...
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Mar 13, 2013 |
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Has the 'Golden Age' of global health funding come to an end?
Despite dire predictions in the wake of the economic crisis, donations to health projects in developing countries appear to be holding steady, according to new research from the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation ...
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Feb 06, 2013 |
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New report: State action on Affordable Care Act's 2014 health insurance market reforms
Only 11 states and the District of Columbia have passed laws or issued regulations to implement the Affordable Care Act's major health insurance market reforms that go into effect in 2014, according to a new Commonwealth ...
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Feb 01, 2013 |
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US health care could shrink for illegal immigrants (Update)
(AP)—President Barack Obama's landmark health care overhaul threatens to roll back some services for the country's estimated 11 million illegal immigrants if clinics and hospitals are overwhelmed with newly ...
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Dec 14, 2012 |
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Report: Employer health insurance premiums increased 62 percent from 2003 to 2011
Average premiums for employer-sponsored family health insurance plans rose 62 percent between 2003 and 2011, from $9,249 to $15,022 per year, according to a new Commonwealth Fund report. The report, which tracks state trends ...
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Dec 12, 2012 |
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Consumers benefitted nearly $1.5 billion from the ACA's medical loss ratio rule in 2011
Consumers saw nearly $1.5 billion in insurer rebates and overhead cost savings in 2011, due to the Affordable Care Act's medical loss ratio provision requiring health insurers to spend at least 80 percent of premium dollars ...
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Dec 05, 2012 |
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Ukraine fights spreading HIV epidemic
(AP)—Andrei Mandrykin, an inmate at Prison No. 85 outside Kiev, has HIV. He looks ghostly and much older than his 35 years. But Mandrykin is better off than tens of thousands of his countrymen, because ...
HIV & AIDS
Nov 30, 2012 |
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Survey: 69 percent of US primary care doctors now have electronic medical records
Two-thirds (69%) of U.S. primary care physicians reported using electronic medical records (EMRs) in 2012, up from less than half (46%) in 2009, according to findings from the 2012 Commonwealth Fund International Health Policy ...
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Nov 15, 2012 |
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UK funding for infectious disease research neglects key areas of disease
The research undertaken by researchers at University College, Imperial College, and the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine is the first ever detailed assessment of infectious diseases investments made by funding ...
Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Nov 08, 2012 |
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Officials debate whether to scrap malaria program
The future of a pricey malaria program meant to provide cheap drugs for poor patients may be in jeopardy after health officials clashed over its effectiveness in two new reports.
Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Oct 31, 2012 |
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New analysis of presidential candidates' health care plans estimates uninsured by 2022
The number of uninsured individuals is estimated to increase in every state and to 72 million nationwide—with children and low- and middle-income Americans particularly hard hit—under Governor Mitt Romney's plan to repeal ...
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Oct 02, 2012 |
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