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During open enrollment, consumers will need help recognizing plans that comply with the Affordable Care Act
Journalists covering open enrollment for the Affordable Care Act this year will need to separate fact from fiction about the…
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Supreme Court case on Affordable Care Act could have far-reaching effects on Medicaid expansion, pre-existing condition protections
On Tuesday, the U.S. Supreme Court will hear oral arguments on whether it should strike down the individual mandate and…
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Provider groups closely monitor Supreme Court case on pharmacy benefit managers
The U.S. Supreme Court this month heard oral arguments in the case of Rutledge v. Pharmaceutical Care Management Association. At…
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What Missouri, Oklahoma teach us about state efforts to expand Medicaid eligibility
Missouri voters in August approved a ballot measure that would expand Medicaid eligibility to include healthy adults, beginning July 1,…
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Employers and insurers paid hospitals 247% more than Medicare rates, new study shows
Research released today shows that from 2016 through 2018, self-insured employers and commercial health insurers in 49 states and the…
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Report card shows erosion of health insurance coverage in the states
The coronavirus has certainly pushed the health care system into a crisis. Still, even before the pandemic began earlier this…
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Wide variations in health care providers’ charges raise questions about the right rate
Early last month, a report from the Pioneer Institute in Boston showed that Massachusetts consumers could have saved $22 million…
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Report shows wide variation in what insurers pay providers versus what Medicare would have paid
During the coronavirus pandemic, any number of good news stories seem to get little or no coverage because most health…
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N.C. journalist goes to Europe for lessons about opioid crisis
Last year, Taylor Knopf, a health care journalist at North Carolina Health News, spent more than a week out of…
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Pulitzer finalists explain how to use court documents to cover hospitals’ predatory billing practices
Court documents are among the best sources for journalists covering the aggressive tactics tht hospitals and health systems use when…