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New York to Insurers, Providers: Fix the Out-of-Network Billing Mess
By Allison BellStories of patients undergoing in-network operations and getting hit with out-of-network bills are prompting a call by New York Governor Andrew M. Cuomo for insurers and healthcare providers to improve billing practices.
March 08, 2012
Ways and Means OKs IPAB Killer Bill by Voice VoteH.R. 452 would ax a new board that could set Medicare provider payment rates without judicial review.
March 08, 2012
Poll: Americans Don't Like PPACA, Don't Fear ItEven some who want oppose the law are less afraid that it will hurt the quality of the care they get.
March 08, 2012
Poll: Americans Don't Like PPACA, Don't Fear ItEven some who want oppose the law are less afraid that it will hurt the quality of the care they get.
March 08, 2012
Week in Pictures | March 9, 2012Mitt Romney inches closer to becoming the Republican Presidential Nominee after close races on Super Tuesday, AIG sells its stake in AIA while it attempts to buy stock back from the Treasury and has the contraception saga finally come to an end? This and more in this week's Week in...
March 08, 2012
Week in Pictures | March 9, 2012Mitt Romney inches closer to becoming the Republican Presidential Nominee after close races on Super Tuesday, AIG sells its stake in AIA while it attempts to buy stock back from the Treasury and has the contraception saga finally come to an end? This and more in this week's Week in...
March 07, 2012
Put 'Em Up: Why All the Discord and Confusion over the MLR at the NAIC?After a series of unusual decisions and signs of infighting, some some are left to wonder if the NAIC is showing the stress fractures that are bound to result when a group dedicated to state insurance regulation finds itself in an era of relentlessly encroaching federal oversight.
March 07, 2012
Birth Control Mandate Spawns Controversy for ObamaWhat began as a rule to mandate contraceptive coverage through workplace health care plans has become a national conversation on religious freedom, the Constitutionality of health care reform, and the right for women to have access to birth control.