How Narrow Is It? Gov鈥檛 Begins Test Of Comparison Tool For Health Plan Networks
This fall, the tool will be available in four states with hopes of expanding it to other states in the future.
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This fall, the tool will be available in four states with hopes of expanding it to other states in the future.
Report portrays Affordable Care Act鈥檚 individual market as improving with rising enrollments of healthier, lower-risk consumers, a performance that clashes with recent complaints from some large insurers.
The changes announced Tuesday seek to eliminate the backlog by 2021.
The current guidelines, last updated in 1987, require patients to specify exactly who gets information about their care. But advocates of change say the new rule will fit in better in the era of sharing patient data through electronic medical records.
Regulators unveiled a two-part plan that will change payments and test ways in which the Medicare Part B program can change the incentives that some policy experts say encourage doctors to choose higher-cost medications.
But Mark Bertolini wants the country鈥檚 marketplaces to better serve young people, who define
healthy as 鈥渓ooking good in their underwear.鈥
Gov. Asa Hutchinson says HHS Secretary Sylvia Burwell 鈥渁ccepts the framework鈥 of his proposals but negotiations are continuing.
The government鈥檚 most detailed release of figures shows insurance plan sign-ups beat the Obama administration鈥檚 goal for the year.
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