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Health Policy
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What to watch for when insurers announce premium rate requests this month
Insurers are preparing to announce their premium rates for 2015. To learn how insurers set rates, Families USA and Consumers…
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Costs keep going up for small businesses insuring their employees
Ideastream’s Sarah Jane Tribble took a look at how small businesses that voluntarily cover their workers could be in for…
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Similar Health Policy terms, but very different concepts
We’ve had a few members wonder whether “essential coverage” and “essential benefits” are one and the same. They aren’t –…
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Explaining health care costs, spending in the first quarter
So health spending is going up. Big time. But health costs are still growing at historically slow rates. And the…
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Employers are tweaking benefits to control costs
A new report from Milliman, the actuarial firm, shows employers’ health care costs rose only 5.4 percent since last year.…
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Health care industry reacting to overtesting, overtreatment
The American health care system wastes an estimated $750 billion a year, according to the Institute of Medicine. At a…
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Use site’s data on silver plans on state, D.C. exchanges
Want to know everything about premiums, networks, deductibles, cost-sharing and out-of-pocket limits for all 7,000-plus silver plans on exchanges in…
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How recent changes are leading to hidden hospital fees
Daniel Chang wrote a piece for The Miami Herald on some of the hidden hospital fees that can take patients by surprise – and…
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What we know – and don’t know – about Marketplace enrollment
We posted yesterday on what we knew about enrollment as we waited for the updated HHS report – which of course…
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Looking ahead to new ACA enrollment numbers
I keep waiting for the final official HHS report on enrollment and the state and demographic breakdowns, but since we…