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How to understand 2015 exchange plan insurance rate changes
It’s rate increase season, and as we head into the second ACA enrollment season, it’s hard to understand why some…
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Are medical, dental boards public or private? Case over teeth-whitening services may decide
A long-simmering feud between North Carolina’s state dental board and a group of non-dentists who provide teeth-whitening services in malls…
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Webcast: Under value-based insurance design, would insurers pay members for high-value services?
Here’s the bare-minimum definition of value-based insurance design: Those who are the most ill should pay the least for treatment.…
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Six (or more) things to remember when reporting on health care costs
Health care costs lack transparency and are wildly variable, not just from region to region but sometimes from block to…
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Fraud, marketing just part of problems with hospice system
A Huffington Post exposé in June, “Hospice, Inc.,” rekindled some thoughts I’ve long had about the split personality of the…
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Missing context in reports on diabetic amputations
People with diabetes in the lowest income neighborhoods of California were 10 times more likely to lose lower extremities to…
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Is your community fighting tooth decay with school-based dental sealant programs?
Have you visited a school-based dental sealant program in your state or community? There may be a good story there.…
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Editorial: No reason to artificially constrain supply of dental practitioners
In a recent editorial, The Washington Post endorsed the licensing of dental therapists to expand care to millions of Americans…
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Medicare, insurers questioning payment differences based on where care is delivered
Health insurers and the federal Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) pay much different rates for clinical services, depending…
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New Medicare Trustees report projects slightly longer solvency
There is some good news coming out of the latest report from the Medicare Trustees. They predict that the trust…
