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Insurance
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Looking back at 2015 on Covering Health
Bacon, chocolate, vaccines and Mark Cuban: Those were the topics of some of the most-read Covering Health posts of 2015.…
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ACA limits Medicare’s use of key value metric for drug prices
Health insurers are trying a wide variety of methods to link drug costs to the value medications deliver to patients.…
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Patient outcomes are among the most overlooked stories in health care
If you saw our November webcast on how consumers and payers can evaluate physician quality, you know that we began…
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Supreme Court case could affect states’ efforts to develop big-claims databases
Here’s a story that’s easy to overlook but could affect the future of health care cost and quality management. On…
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How much can Kentucky’s next governor unravel an ACA success story?
The off-year Kentucky governor’s election put the future of the Affordable Care Act into question in that state. Kentucky is…
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Finding fresh ways to report on Medicaid, changes in health care system
The Washington, D.C., chapter of AHCJ held an event about Medicaid in late October with Matt Salo, who leads the…
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In new tip sheet, Chicago reporter suggests questions to ask about low hospital occupancy rates
For many years, health insurers have worked to keep patients out of hospitals, the costliest care setting. At the same…
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Proposed budget compromise includes gradual increase in Medicare premiums
While much of America was watching the New York Mets and Kansas City Royals battle it out for 14 long…
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U.S. report tackles issue of conversion therapy for LGBT youth
Controversial conversion therapy targeting lesbian and gay young people should be banned, the Obama administration said, releasing a new report…
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Getting behind the confusion that leads some to lose their subsidized health insurance
We posted recently about California’s assessment of who was dropping out of the exchange, including the finding that most people…